If you've seen her in concert, Adele is quite the chatterbox. Despite poking fun at her own stage follies and talking about her failed relationships onstage, there was one thing that she's kept a secret for a while: postpartum depression. 

In an interview with Vanity Fair for its December issue, the 28-year-old UK singer opened up about dealing with this obstacle.

"I'm too scared. I had really bad postpartum depression after I had my son, and it frightened me," she said.

She said she didn't take medication for it but was convinced by her boyfriend, Simon Konecki, to talk to other pregnant women and mothers to help her sort through it, which she admitted helped. And later on, she was able to pay it forward.

"One day I said to a friend, 'I fuckin’ hate this,' she said, "and she just burst into tears and said, 'I fuckin’ hate this, too.' And it was done. It lifted. My knowledge of postpartum — or postnatal, as we call it in England — is that you don't want to be with your child; you're worried you might hurt your child; you're worried you weren’t doing a good job. But I was obsessed with my child. I felt very inadequate; I felt like I'd made the worst decision of my life… It can come in many different forms."

Despite her extensive tour supporting her latest album, 25, Adele has mentioned on occasion that this is probably her last tour for a long time. During the interview, she further explained what she meant by that.

"I'm on tour simply to see everyone who's been so supportive," she explained. "I don’t care about money. I'm British, and we don't have that… thing of having to earn more money all the time."

However, that doesn't mean she's done writing songs. "I'd still like to make records, but I’d be fine if I never heard [the applause] again," she said.

She also revealed that her family comes before anything else.

"All of my relationships are more important to me than any tour I'll ever do," she said. "If my relationship with [partner] Simon or my relationship with [son] Angelo started to flounder a bit now, I would pull out of my tour."

She also added, "My life is more important to me than anything 'I'm doing because how the fuck am I supposed to write a record if I don’t have a life? If I don’t have a real life, then it’s game over anyway."

You can read the full Vanity Fair interview here.

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