Singer Adele cried her heart out when she met her idol, Gabrielle.
Adele is such a huge fan that she rushed over to Gabrielle's dressing room in hair rollers.
Gabrielle, whose 1993 debut single Dreams was a global hit, was supporting Adele at two sold-out Hyde Park summer gigs.
The 53-year-old said: “It was amazing. She came to my dressing room. She was meant to be in hair and makeup, she arrived in rollers looking really cute. She just made my day. She’s incredible.
“She cried. She nearly made me cry because she’s phenomenal.”
Adele, 34, was five when Dreams, which includes the line “dreams can come true”, was released and the youngster growing up in Tottenham, North London, longed to emulate the singer.
Gabrielle made a comeback with chart-topping Rise in 2000 and Out of Reach from the film Bridget Jones’s Diary.
Speaking at Jog-On to Cancer, a charity event in London, Gabrielle said: “We were star struck around each other but I was more star struck.”
She said she did not know why she is Adele’s musical hero as the singer is “flawless and amazing”.
Gabrielle, who has a drooping eyelid and covers it in public with shades, an eyepatch or hair, is getting ready to embark on her 30 Years of Dreaming Tour in 2023.
Adele chose Dreams when she appeared on Desert Island Discs. She said: “It’s the very first song I remember in my life. I was four or five and I think the lyric ‘dreams can come true’ is so infectious.
“I remember being mesmerised by her, so pure and so delicate and gentle with her voice in the way she moved.”
Adele recalled when she had a “gooey eye” with conjunctivitis her mum sewed sequins on an eyepatch to hide it at school so she could copy the star.
She added: “She was massive, she was number one so it was a obvious nod.”
