Hello... goodbye - ADELE'S SHOCK LOSS

THE FATHER-DAUGHTER RIFT HAS BEEN TAKEN TO THE GRAVE

- Judy Kean

Four years ago, singer Adele made her feelings very clear about her estranged father Mark Evans, revealing, “I don’t love my dad,” in a Grammy acceptance speech. Now she will never get the chance to fix their broken relationship as her dad has died from bowel cancer, aged 57.

The pair were not on speaking terms when delivery driver Mark died last week. Already leading very separate lives before Adele found fame in 2008, they fell out in public several years later and despite a brief reconciliation in 2015, the relationship was “acrimonious to the end” according to a source.

“She wasn’t talking to him, but will still no doubt be sad. He was her father, after all,” tells the insider.

Adele, 33, was just three when her dad walked out on her and her mum Penny Adkins. Mark later said that his heavy drinking meant he couldn’t be the kind of dad he wanted to be.

“I was a rotten father at a time when she really needed me,” he admitted in 2011. “I was putting away two litres of vodka and seven or eight pints of Stella every day. I drank like that for three years. God only knows how I survived it.

“I was deeply ashamed of what I’d become and I knew the kindest thing I could do for Adele was to make sure she never saw me in that state.”