What happened to Adele’s dad?

What happened to Adele’s dad?

“It [Alcohol] took my dad from me,” Adele said. “Once I realised I had to do a lot to work on myself, I stopped drinking and started working out a lot.” Adele’s estranged father, Mark Evans, died in May at the age of 57 after a long battle with bowel cancer.

Why did Adele’s father leave her?

“He had a disease, he was a really big alcoholic and he had loads of demons, but I didn’t really understand that when I was younger.” Adele then said that she decided to cut ties with Evans after he failed to show up for Father’s Day when she was 12 years old.

What job did Adele’s father do?

Mark lived in Cardiff, Wales, where he worked as a plumber, and he admitted to The Sun in 2011 that he was a “rotten father” when Adele needed him most. “I was putting away two litres of vodka and seven or eight pints of Stella every day,” he said.

Where did Adele’s father come from?

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on 5 May 1988 in the Tottenham district of London, to an English mother, Penny Adkins, and a Welsh father, Marc Evans. Evans left when Adele was 2, and she was brought up by her mother. She began singing at age 4 and asserts that she became obsessed with voices.