The singer took the stage for another show in her Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum in Caesars Palace over the weekend, and she informed the audience that, after an infection, she’s currently “a bit deaf” in her left ear.
“I actually have an ear infection, which is pretty grim,” she told the concertgoers in a video shared by a fan.
“I’ve never had one before, it’s in this ear,” she said, pointing to her left ear. “It’s the most painful thing that’s ever, ever happened to me in my life, it was worse than childbirth.”
She explained, “It’s a rare water bacteria that is very hard to treat. I was on the wrong antibiotics for a few days, and they managed to give me one that started to work, which is great. I’m a bit deaf. A bit deaf in my left ear.”
Adele said that was the reason she’d been adjusting the monitors in her ears – because she couldn’t hear properly.
She also said she wanted to “chop my ear off a couple of times,” and admitted that she’d been feeling “very sorry for myself,” but she didn’t want to miss the concert.
The “Rolling in the Deep” singer did a number of performances in Munich in August, then took a six-week break before returning to her residency in Las Vegas. She said she developed the infection during that break.