His resolution to talk to the tabloid broken their relationship.
A yr later, Adele advised Vogue, “I used to be truly prepared to begin making an attempt to have a relationship with him, He is fucking blown it. He won’t ever hear from me once more. As a result of there’s nothing that might upset me greater than my dad being bribed by the press, it is like, simply allow them to run it, then. Do not you give them ammunition. It makes me offended! To return again after 10 years and be like, ‘Possibly her downside with males comes right down to me.’ It is like, fuck off! How dare you touch upon my life? It makes my blood boil. It makes my household really feel awkward; it makes my mates really feel awkward round me; it makes me act awkward; it makes me unhappy. There’s penalties different than simply getting a bit a fuckin’ cash that lasts you half a yr. It blows my thoughts. ‘I like her a lot’? Actually? Why are you telling me that by way of a newspaper? If I ever see him, I’ll spit in his face.”
Nevertheless, Adele and her father reconciled earlier than his dying in 2021.