Adele: I was a shell of a person after being forced to axe Las Vegas shows

SUPERSTAR Adele has told how she was left “devastated” by having to pull out of her Las Vegas residency earlier this year.

- Jon Coates and Julia Kuttner

The singer, 34, who performed to sold-out crowds at London’s Hyde Park yesterday and on Friday – her first public UK gigs in five years – also revealed the “brutal” reaction to her decision left her a shell of a person.

Adele cancelled her highly anticipated gigs at Caesar’s Palace just 24 hours before she was due to perform her first show there in January, claiming the production wasn’t ready.

The Someone Like You hitmaker has faced a backlash at having so far failed to reschedule the shows, with some accusing her of “diva-like” behaviour.

On Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Adele told host Lauren Laverne: “I definitely felt everyone’s disappointment and I was devastated.