“I just had to wait it out and grieve it,” he said. “I guess I’m just grieving the shows and getting over the guilt, but it was brutal.” Adele tearfully announced the cancellation in January, a day before the much-anticipated concerts began. Now she says she “definitely felt everyone’s disappointment” and also felt “devastated” and “scared of letting them down”. “I thought I could put it together and make it work and I couldn’t. I stand by that decision,” Adele said. “I don’t think any other artist would have done what I did, and I think that’s why it was such a huge, huge story.” “I’m not just going to do a show because I have to or because people will be disappointed or because we’ll lose a lot of money,” he added. Adele returned to the stage at the weekend to headline the BST Hyde Park festival in London.