Adele's always done her best to keep her personal life out of the tabloids, but she's praised Simon Konecki on various occasions, before and after their split. "Simon is already who he is, and I'm still becoming who I'm going to be. He's confident. He's perfect," she told Vanity Fair in 2016. In an interview with British Vogue in November 2021, Adele explained that her son didn't understand the divorce and, frankly, neither did she. "Obviously Simon and I never fought over him or anything like that. Angelo's just like, 'I don't get it.' I don't really get it either. There are rules that are made up in society of what happens and doesn't happen in marriage and after marriage, but I'm a very complex person," Adele said, later adding, "It just wasn't right for me any more. I didn't want to end up like a lot of other people I knew. I wasn't miserable miserable, but I would have been miserable had I not put myself first. But, yeah, nothing bad happened or anything like that."
Two years after her split from Konecki, Adele took her romance with Rich Paul public. The two were seen sitting courtside at a Milwaukee Bucks game, according to People magazine, and they'd met at a party sometime prior and really seemed to hit it off. As Adele and Paul continued spending time together, things got more serious, so much so that she introduced her new man to her ex-husband.
