On Thursday at the Hollywood Reporter’s Annual Women in Entertainment Gala, Adele the “Easy on me ” singer accepted the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award. In her acceptance speech she took the opportunity to thank her beloved partner Rich Paul’s late mother “Minerva Martin” for raising her son to become a proper man
The legendary songstress said ,”I actually have many men in my life who i love and who love me ,but in the spirit of this morning and in fear of bras being burned, I’m gonna thank their mothers not them,” adding I would like to thank Minerva Martin ,” referring to her late mother-in-law ,she continued,” thank you to them for raising a good man who does not think that a woman’s power diminishes their own.” Adele ended her speech with ,”That’s a proper man. Thank you.”
Adele and Paul were seen at am NBA game in the year 2021 after they were seen together a source confirmed to people that the two have been love birds for a few months. Latter in October, in Paul’s memoir of changing the odds ,he reveals his relationship with the legendary singer. He also reveals the trauma he went through growing up in a crime-ridden area of Cleveland in the “80s and 90s” and also having a mom who struggled with drug addiction in his early childhood days
He said, I had built up this wall as a young kid,” adding ,”to just have the understanding to move forward and know that she’s not going to be there. Like mom is not coming home .”He further went on to say that his deep-rooted childhood trauma is the topic that brought him close to Adele . He claims it was very emotional, “continued, “I think a lot of it probably hit home so yeah it was difficult for her to read
Adele also shared her views on her husband’s memoir to the Hollywood reporter. She elaborated ,”It was very emotional reading about his mum because obviously shes not with us ,so I’ve never met her,” she further said ,”And she’s such a big part of Rich and the kids and the kid’s mum’s life and stuff like that,” she added ,”But i knew all about it,” she also said ,”it was hard for him to write that.”
