Adele revealed that she had to postpone the next date of her Las Vegas residency after illness affected her voice.
Days after revealing she was placed on vocal rest, the 35-year-old singer shared the sad news that all 10 of her March shows will be postponed to a later date after she was ordered to rest based on “doctors' orders.”
Adele is due to conclude her Las Vegas residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in June, and is thought to earn around £1.5million per show.
This is not the first time that the singer has been forced to cancel her concerts due to health problems, as a painful spinal condition and throat surgery caused the postponement of other dates in the past.
Here, MailOnline takes a look at her past health battles and how they affected her career.
Throat surgery forced her to cancel shows in 2011
Adele faced her first major health issue that would impact her career in 2011, when she was forced to undergo microsurgery on her vocal cord to remove a benign tumor, forcing her to cancel a series of concerts.
Adele, who was 23 years old at the time, underwent surgery, according to a statement issued by Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA.
“On the advice of her doctor and voice therapist in the United Kingdom, Adele came to Boston for consultation and to undergo corrective voice surgery,” the statement read.
This type of surgery is designed to prevent recurrent bleeding of the vocal cords. It came less than a month after the singer canceled the rest of the dates she was scheduled to perform that year.
“If I keep catching everything before I properly get over these issues and nip them in the bud, I will be completely and utterly distraught,” Adele said in an Instagram post at the time. Blog last month.
“Singing is literally my life, it is my hobby, my love, my freedom and now my job.”
The singer left “devastated” after canceling the final two shows of the 2017 tour
The singer suffered disaster again in 2017, when she had to cancel the last two shows of her European tour.
She was due to play at Wembley Stadium for her homecoming shows in London, but was forced to pull out after revealing she had damaged her vocal cords again in an emotional Facebook post.
“Based on medical advice, I am simply unable to perform over the weekend,” she wrote.
“To say I am heartbroken would be a complete understatement.”
Adele later revealed that she had inserted copies of a handwritten note into the tour program for the first two nights of her Wembley show.
In a message posted on the star's official social media channels, she admitted she was “so desperate” to finish her tour that she “thought about copying” so shows could go ahead.
Adele promised her fans she would have first priority on her upcoming tour, but unlucky ticket holders are still waiting.
Symptoms of sciatica left Adele unable to walk
In August 2023, Adele revealed to her fans that she collapsed backstage before the show due to a bout of sciatica, according to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”. the sun.
“They lifted my whole body off the ground,” she allegedly told fans.
Adele was also forced to sit down during her show on Weekend With Adele, explaining: “I'm going to sit down and rest my sciatica.”
for every NHSSciatica is “where the sciatic nerve, which runs from your lower back to your feet, is irritated or compressed.”
It can cause sharp pain and a cramping sensation and can be so severe that it leaves a person unable to walk.
Earlier this year, Adele detailed her chronic back pain during another show in Las Vegas as she walked around the stage.
While speaking to the audience, she fired T-shirts at audience members with a portable cannon and said, “I've got two more, I just have to move to the other side of the stage.”
“I have to sway these days because I have really bad sciatica,” Adele added in the video obtained by the Daily Star.
Adele has previously discussed struggling with pain “half her life”, before losing weight, and how the process of fixing her body helped her overcome her issues.