Adele has been seen "hobbling" around the stage of her New Year’s Eve show in Las Vegas after confessing she was struggling with a health condition to fans.
Footage has shown the superstar hunched over and waddling from one side of the stage to the other, while telling fans she is suffering from sciatica, a painful nerve condition in her lower back.
The 34-year-old singer is currently taking Las Vegas by storm with her hotly anticipated Weekends With Adele residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
But she appeared to be really struggling as she told fans about her health condition during a recent performance.
The star has been performing to fans in Sin City since the middle of November – and will be singing week after week all the way until the end of March 2023.
The Hello singer had been handing out T-shirt launchers to her adoring crowd when needed to get from one side of the stage to the other quickly, according to the Daily Star.
Adele reportedly shocked fans as she attempted to quickly hobble across the stage while telling fans that she had to waddle due to her painful condition.
“I’ve got two more I’ve just got to get over to the other side of the stage,” she says in a video of the moment, before adding: “I have to waddle these days as I have really bad sciatica.”
According to the NHS, sciatica is where the sciatic nerve, which runs from your lower back to your feet, is irritated or compressed.
It can cause stabbing, burning or shooting pains, tingling, numbness and weakness and symptoms may be worse when moving, sneezing or coughing.
The star has previously been candid about her chronic back pain, revealing how she's lived with it for half her life after suffering two separate slipped discs.
“I’ve been in pain with my back for, like, half of my life, really,” Adele previously told The Face. “It flares up, normally due to stress or from a stupid bit of posture.”
“I slipped my first disc when I was 15 from sneezing. I was in bed and I sneezed and my fifth one flew out,” she recalled. “In January, I slipped my sixth one, my L6. And then, where I had a C-section, my core was useless.”
But Adele will hopefully be back to feeling good as new soon with the help of the best doctors money can buy as her residency and the release of her album, 30, last year has seen her income sky rocket.
According to stats released last week, Adele added £11.5million to her fortune last year after releasing her first album in five years.
With cash pouring in from royalties, figures last week showed her company Melted Stone Ltd has reserves of £15million for 2021, up from £3.5m million in 2020.
It takes the profits from Rolling in the Deep star Adele’s lyrics and sheet music and it is now worth £3.4m.
However, her firm A Adkins Touring Ltd which looks after live music made a loss of £88,000.
