Emeli Sande has confirmed she has divorced her husband after just a year of marriage.
The 27-year-old singer has revealed she came close to suffering a “breakdown” after splitting from her childhood sweetheart Adam Gouraguine – who she dated for 10 years – last year and admitted she is still coming to terms with losing her “best friend”.
Emeli – who married Adam in his home nation Montenegro in September 2012 – told The Times newspaper: “Everyone thought I’d gone mad. ‘What do you mean a divorce? We were all at your wedding a few months ago!’
“But there was just something inside me that said, ‘This isn’t the life. You’re pretending to be someone else.’
“And that’s so hard to explain to someone. I can’t even explain it now.
“I just felt I had to wake up. I’d been sleeping and things were happening. I could get up on stage and sing but, I don’t know, it was just a real … I don’t want to call it a breakdown, but it felt like that.
“Every day you get a bit stronger. Every day you stop blaming yourself for things.
“I think I spent the couple of months after not in denial, but not really dealing with what had happened.
“Adam and I had been together since I was 17. He was my only boyfriend. That’s the only person I’ve been with for the past 10 years.
“So [losing] our relationship more than the marriage was the big part for me to deal with.
“Having a friend who’d been my best friend for so long … losing that support and structure in my life was the biggest thing.”
Emeli – who debuted a new straight fringe look at the MTV European Music Awards in Glasgow, Scotland – regrets ever getting married to Adam because their lives were “so separate”.
But she insists she doesn’t have a bad word to say about him and is going to keep her tattoo on her left breastbone, which reads “I love you Adam” in Serbian.
Source: Mirror
