Adele herself has spoken on occasion about her father, who abandoned her mother when she was only three years old, to clarify that she does not hate him, but that her immense fame had not exactly helped them to resolve their differences.
Most likely, the interviews that Mark gave shortly after the artist released her album ’21’, the second of her career, in which she gave her thoughts about Adele’s love life and talked about her own alcohol problems, either help mend the bond between father and daughter.
In 2013, Mark revealed that he was battling bowel cancer and feared that he would never meet his grandson Angelo, who Adele has with her ex-husband Simon Konecki. However, in 2015 he revealed that his daughter’s album ’25’ had been a kind of catharsis that had allowed them to forgive and turn the page.