Adele admits she 'cried pretty much all day' after her botched Grammy performance
Adele admitted Thursday on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that her private reaction to her botched performance at the Grammys Monday night was entirely different from the brave face she put on in public.
"I cried pretty much all day [Tuesday]," Adele said of her reaction to the technical difficulties that made her performance sound "pitchy." "In fairness, I would've cried if it had gone really well as well. ... I kept spontaneously bursting into tears yesterday but it was all right, I'm fine."
According to Adele, the microphone fell onto the piano strings during the post-sound check commercial break, making the "guitar noise." "Some people thought it was [Justin] Bieber rehearsing but it wasn't him," Adele joked, before taking a more serious note. "And it just kinda put the whole thing off, really."
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She assured DeGeneres that she's completely moved past it now, thanks in part to a burger from In-N-Out. "It wasn't too bad," Adele told DeGeneres. "I treated myself to a burger and a beer."
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