Adele has revealed she’s been performing her Las Vegas residency with a disintegrated disc in her spine.
The 34-year-old singer discussed her painful injury at a recent gig, explaining to concertgoers how one of her vertebrae has “worn away” and that she’s also been left with “really bad sciatica” in her left leg.
Speaking during her Weekends With Adele at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, she asked her audience: “Is anyone else kind of my age starting getting bad knees?
“I have got really bad sciatica in my left leg and my L5 disc is not f****** there any more. It’s worn away.”
The L5 vertebra is the final section of the lumbar spine and injuries to it often cause numbness and weakness in the legs.
It’s not the first time Adele has disclosed her health woes on stage and last month it was revealed how “really bad sciatica” left her “waddling” on stage.
Despite putting on an incredible string of shows for her fans, the Rolling In The Deep singer is having to “waddle” around the stage due to the debilitating nerve issue.
At her New Year’s Eve show, the Hello hitmaker was reportedly handing out T-shirts to fans when she complained about her chronic back pain, which made it difficult to run from one side of the venue to the other.
In quotes obtained by Daily Star, she said: “I’ve got two more, I’ve just got to get over to the other side of the stage.”
It’s not the first time Adele has spoken about her struggle with the nerve pain, having previously discussed how the health issue has impacted her life.
“I’ve been in pain with my back for, like, half of my life, really,” she told The Face. “It flares up, normally due to stress or from a stupid bit of posture.”
Adele explained that she first slipped a disc when she was just 15 then last January, she slipped another.
She recalled: “I was in bed and I sneezed and my fifth one flew out.”
“And then where I had a C-section, my core was useless,” Adele told the outlet, as she discussed her newfound motivation for working out and the benefits she’s seen since focusing on her health.
