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Adele has recently returned to the limelight, as she prepares to release her first album, 30, in six years. The singer is famously private and goes to great lengths to keep herself out of the public eye, however she has finally let fans in on her personal life for the first time during her new album campaign.

ADELE has revealed how she reconnected with her father Mark Evans before his death from cancer in May. The 31-year-old had a complicated relationship with her late dad, who split from her mother Penny Adkins when Adele was just three-years-old.

You can’t choose your family but you can make the choice to remove people - even parents - from your life.

Adele is mourning the death of her estranged father after he passed away following a battle with cancer at the age of 57.MORE: Adele poses in swimsuit in sensational new birthday photosThe superstar and her father's relationship had been strained since 2011, when Mark Evans, who had walked out on her and her mother Penny Adkins when she was three years old, gave an interview in which he said the 33-year-old struggled to find love because she had "abandonment issues". WATCH: Adele impresses with her American accentMark also revealed his alcohol problems, admitting to drinking "two littles of vodka and seven or eight pints of Stella every day".Several years later, Mark gave several other interviews in which he claimed he wanted "my daughter