Adele Opens Up About Her ''Dark Side'' and Dealing With Postpartum Depression: ''I Felt Like I'd Made the Worst Decision of My Life''

Adele rarely opens up about her life outside of music as she's always been shy about the "celebrity" side of her career, allowing us to focus on her insane voice and nothing more.

However, she covers the December issue of Vanity Fair and lets her guard down a bit, opening up about motherhood, relationships and battling depression for a majority of her life.

"I have a very dark side. I'm very available to depression," she admitted to the publication. "I can slip in and out of it quite easily. It started when my granddad died, when I was about 10, and while I never had a suicidal thought, I have been in therapy, lots."

When her son, Angelo Konecki, was born, that struggle completely changed—but only after she "snapped out" of her postpartum depression.

It's hard to imagine someone like Adele—whose son is the center of her universe—to have ever battled postpartum depression, but even she admits that it can happen to any new mom in all different ways, and it's exactly why she's scared to have another baby.

"My knowledge of postpartum—or post-natal, as we call it in England—is that you don't want to be with your child; you're worried you might hurt your child; you're worried you weren't doing a good job," she said. "But I was obsessed with my child. I felt very inadequate; I felt like I'd made the worst decision of my life."

She continued, "It can come in many different forms...You're constantly trying to make up for stuff when you're a mom."

Now, Angelo is her world and nothing comes in the way of that. Her entire schedule—both work and personal—revolves around him...but that doesn't affect her. "I don't mind, because of the love I feel for him," she admitted. "I don't care if I don't ever get to do anything for myself again."




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