After six years of relative silence, Adele is back.

While we still have to wait a little longer for new music, the singer is the November 2021 cover star of both AmericanVogue and British Vogue. The covers came with two new cover story interviews, her first in five years.

After years without Adele content, we suddenly have a tsunami of new quotes, details and insight into the past few years of her life, covering everything from her divorce to her undying love for Beyoncé.

Here are the most interesting things we learned from both cover stories.

Her divorce was more 'drift than implosion'.

Adele, 33, filed for divorce from husband Simon Konecki in 2019. They share eight-year-old son Angelo.

"It just wasn't right for me anymore," she toldBritish Vogue. "I didn't want to end up like a lot of other people I knew. I wasn'tmiserablemiserable, but I would have been miserable had I not put myself first. But, yeah, nothing bad happened or anything like that.

To the American magazine, she shared the same sentiment: "Neither of us did anything wrong. Neither of us hurt each other or anything like that. It was just: I want my son to see me really love, and be loved."

She said if she reached that 'happiness', "and he sees me in that happiness, then maybe I'll be able to forgive myself for it".

She felt embarrassed by the 'failure'.

Adele reflected on those early months, and being scared of people's opinions about her divorce.

"I was terrified. People were everywhere, trying to get stories, and I just hated it. I was embarrassed. I was really embarrassed. That thing of not being able to make something work. We've been trained as women to keep trying, even by the movies we watched when we were little. At the time it broke my heart, but I actually find it so interesting now. How we're told to suck it up."

She said the media timeline of her relationship was all wrong. Articles assumed they had married pre-2017, as Adele referred to him as her "husband" in an award acceptance speech that year. As it turns out, they didn't marry until she was 30.

So how long after the wedding did she end things?

"I'm not gonna go into that detail," she said. "Remember, I am embarrassed. This is very embarrassing. It wasn't very long."

Her ex-husband Simon now lives across the road from the singer, and they continue to co-parent Angelo.

"I definitely chose the perfect person to have my child with. That – after making a lot of knee-jerk reactions – is one of my proudest things I've ever done," she said.

She found dating after divorce a struggle.

Adele is now dating sports agent Rich Paul, she confirmed to the magazines. They had been friends for years after initially meeting at a party, and it all came together just before Adele's dad died earlier this year.

"I did date before Rich, but they hated it," she toldBritish Vogue.

"They'd find it stressful being out or seen with me, which meant that I guarded all of it beyond. It never evolved because we were never experiencing things together. Whereas he's not frazzled by it at all. It feels like it's consistent and considerate enough that I don't care who knows."