Adele has opened up about the moment she realized she wanted a divorce from her ex-husband Simon Konecki.

In her recent candid interview with Oprah, the singer told the 67-year-old media mogul that she had always wanted to have the sort of family in which the parents remain in a loving relationship and raise their children in the same household.

Adele, who shares her nine-year-old son Angelo Adkins with Konecki, said, per Harpers Bazaar: "I've been obsessed with the nuclear family my whole life because I never came from one.

"In all these movies and all these books, when you grow up reading them, that's what it should be. I just, from a very young age, promised myself that when I had kids, that we'd stay together. We would be that united family. And I tried for a really, really long time."

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"I was just so disappointed for my son. I was so disappointed for myself, and I thought I was gonna be the one that stopped doing those bloody patterns all the time," she added.

She also shared with Oprah the exact moment she realized that she wanted a divorce - a moment that occurred during a conversation with her friends.

The 'Easy On Me' singer said: "We were all answering these questions in this very bougie magazine, and it was something like, 'What's something that no one would ever know about you?'

"And I just said it in front of three of my friends, I was like, 'I'm really not happy. I'm not living, I'm just plodding along.'"

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Adele then went on to say that her own music helped her realize that she wasn't "living", but merely "surviving".

She said: "And I remember a lyric that I wrote that I put on a song on 25, which is 'I want to live and not just survive.'

"I definitely felt like that. And it was when I admitted to my own friends who thought I was really happy that actually, I'm really unhappy, and they were all aghast. I felt like it was sort of from there that I was like, what am I doing it for?"

Adele and Konecki started dating back in 2011, and their son Angelo was born the following year. The 'Chasing Pavments' chart-topper and the charity entrepreneur tied the knot in 2018, with Adele filing for divorce the year after. Their divorce was finalized in March this year.

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Adele opens up about the moment she realized she wanted to divorce ex-husband