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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 3 July 2017
Adele shares devastation at canceling weekend London shows

By DANICA KIRKA at the end of a 15-month come to terms with. It’s as if Adele said refunds will she said. “I’m sorry. I love
Associated Press tour throughout Europe, my whole career has been be available, if the shows you. I’m so sorry. Please for-
LONDON (AP) — Grammy the United State, Australia building up to these four can’t be rescheduled. give me x.”q
award winner Adele can- and New Zealand. The pop shows.” “I’m sorry, I’m devastated,”
celed two sold-out week- superstar said that touring
end shows at London’s never suited her well, and
Wembley Stadium, telling had hinted earlier that her
fans early Saturday that current tour for the album
her vocal cords were dam- “25” would be her last.
aged and that she was The 29-year-old British sing-
advised by a doctor not to er included a signed, hand-
perform. written note in the program
In a statement to her fans for her Wednesday night
on social media, Adele show at Wembley saying,
said she considered go- “I don’t know if I’ll ever tour
ing ahead with her Satur- again and so I want my last
day night performance time to be at home.”
but didn’t think she would The “Hello” tour would have
have been able to make included a total of 123
it through the show and performances had Adele
didn’t want to “crumble” gone ahead with the two
on stage. shows this weekend. She
“I’m so desperate to do performed at Wembley on
them that I’ve even con- Wednesday and Thursday
sidered miming, just to be nights.
in front of you and be with “To not complete this mile-
you,” she wrote. “But I’ve stone in my career is some-
never done it and I cannot thing I’m struggling to get
in a million years do that to my head around and I wish
you. It wouldn’t be the real that I wasn’t having to write In this Feb. 12, 2017, file photo, Adele performs “Hello” at the 59th annual Grammy Awards in Los
me up there.” this,” she wrote. “It’s some- Angeles.
The announcement came thing I’m really struggling to Associated Press