The British singer explains in a new interview that her team doesn't allow her to handle her Instagram account because they're 'worried she would get drunk or be annoying.'
- Dec 4, 2021
AceShowbiz - Adele revealed in a new interview that she has no control over her social media accounts. During her appearance on YouTube star NikkieTutorials' "Power of Makeup" series, the "Easy on Me" hitmaker shared that she got her Instagram password taken away from her over one picture.
"I was never allowed my passwords for my socials before," the "Someone Like You" singer told beauty influencer Nikkie de Jager. The British singer explained that her team didn't allow her to handle her Instagram account because they're "worried she would get drunk or be annoying."
However, Adele revealed that they let her have her password during COVID-19 lockdown. "But obviously the internet was just on fire during Covid, it kept everyone's morale up," she divulged.
That didn't stay long though, because the password was taken away from her again after she posted one particular picture. "It was the only picture I ever posted myself, and then they took my password away from me," so she said.
While Adele didn't reveal which snap she was referring to, it's high likely that the "Hello" singer was talking about her controversial Notting Hill Carnival picture. The 33-year-old was accused of cultural appropriation by sharing the picture, which saw her wearing a Jamaican flag bikini and her hair in Bantu knots.
Prior to this, Adele addressed the backlash in an interview with Vogue. "I could see comments being like, 'the nerve to not take it down,' which I totally get. But if I take it down, it's me acting like it never happened," she said in October. "And it did. I totally get why people felt like it was appropriating."
Adele, who has lived in Notting Hill, shared that she wanted to show solidarity with Londoners at a time they would have been celebrating the Caribbean culture. "If you don't go dressed to celebrate the Jamaican culture - and in so many ways we are so entwined in that part of London - then it's a little bit like, 'What you coming for, then?' " she continued.
However, she admitted that she "didn't read the f***ing room." She added, "I was wearing a hairstyle that is actually to protect Afro hair. Ruined mine, obviously."
