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New Adele Biography Claims Alcohol Abuse

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I believe that all the best vocalists, with the most expressive performances reach deep down into a place of pain.  I wish her all the best. Via Huffington Post: Adele was once close to "rolling in the deep" with an alcohol problem, according to a new biography. In Marc Shapiro's "Adele: The Biography," the author details a time when the singer struggled with a drinking problem that left her visibly intoxicated while performing onstage. "I got so drunk by the time I went on at 2 a.m. I had forgotten the words to my own songs ... It was the worst thing ever,"  the 24-year-old singer told Shapiro in an interview, according to  In Touch . "Midway through her first tour, she allegedly had a drinking problem," he says. But according to Shapiro, it was the heartbreak that made Adele a global household name that fueled her alcohol dependence --  an addiction her estranged father similarly suffered from . "Adele would drink mor...