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Lauren Gordon

Adele and James Corden burst into tears as they recall her devastating split

Adele got emotional as she took control of the last-ever episode of James Corden's Carpool Karaoke.

James announced last April that he'd be leaving the Late Late show after hosting it since 2015. CBS reportedly made "desperate" attempts to keep him on.

He told audiences: "I never saw it as my final destination, and I never want this show to overstay its welcome, I love making it and I really think in a year from now that will be a good time to move on and see what's out there."

James' tenure on the show will come to an end on the 27th of April and will see the return of iconic guests including the Kardashian family and Tom Cruise.

For the last Carpool Karaoke episode, Adele joined the show and took a camera crew to James' house and woke him up with a pair of cymbals.

Adele returned for the final edition of Carpool Karaoke (The Late Late Show with James Corden)

She shakily took to the driver's seat, telling James that although she's "not a good driver" and "sings with her eyes closed," she'd be leading the final carpool karaoke.

The pair went through some of Adele's greatest hits, including Rolling In The Deep, Love Is A Game and Hometown as well as Don't Rain On My Parade by Barbra Streisand.

Before the duo started singing her song I Drink Wine from her recent album 30, Adele provided some backstory from the song and explained how James had inspired her to write what she claims is "some of my best writing that I've ever done."

Adele said a conversation with James inspired her break up song I Drink Wine (Getty Images for The Recording A)

"It was inspired by a conversation that you and I had had and it was like the fourth of January or something of 2020. We'd just been on vacation together with the kids and we're on our way home and my mood had changed.

"And it was like the first year that I felt like I had to hold myself accountable for just being an adult whereas the year before that, I left Simon and stuff like that," she said, starting to choke up as tears began forming in her eyes.

"You and Jules and the kids were so integral in looking after me and Angelo. And you used to do it with humour as well. You used to be like, 'Good luck with that one,' like you know, in any little thing I was pursuing and stuff like that.

Adele and James burst into tears (The Late Late Show with James Corden)

Adele went on to add that when she noticed James was feeling down, the pair had a six-hour-long chat where the presenter opened up about "work stuff and the internet and all those things," and Adele admitted to feeling "unsafe with you feeling unsafe."

She said: "You've always been like that and then I went to the studio a couple of weeks later. And I wrote this and I remember I sang it into my phone and I sent it to you. And I remember you saying 'That's exactly how I was feeling'."

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