Adele has said that one of the songs on her upcoming album features a voicemail she left for a friend as she suffered an "anxiety attack".
The British singer wrote the song about her nine-year-old son Angelo, who she shares with her ex-husband Simon Konecki.
During an appearance on the Australian radio station Carrie & Tommy, she spoke about including the voicemail in the record: "It's in the song about my son, it's at the end, in the outro. I was really frightened.
"I was having an anxiety attack and I called my best friend to try to talk to her to calm me down but she didn’t bloody answer."
The 33-year-old singer added that the track is about "putting on that brave face" for her son, especially amid her divorce from Konecki.
The couple announced that they were separating in April 2019 and she filed for divorce in September of that year.
Adele said she hoped the song will give her son a better understanding of why his parents needed to split up.
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"So often mum is mum and dad is dad, and who they are outside that role is never really discussed in childhood. So it's more that," she said.
"And when he does get older he will understand, because life is going to hit him as well, of what I was going through."
Adele released her comeback single Easy On Me on October 15 with the full album, entitled 30, due for release on November 19.
