Adele's father tells of heartache over their rift Mr Evans, 50, who is a recovering alcoholic, told the Daily Mail: "When she sings, it's so beautiful but it brings back too many memories. It's too painful. He described how he and the singer's mother Penny Adkins "drifted apart" when their daughter was two years old, and he returned home to Wales, where he now lives in Bridgend. The couple had been living in Tottenham. Mr Evans said that after he left he had sent money when he could and that he maintained an "amicable" relationship with his daughter and her mother and that they would visit him in Wales. But he admitted that alcoholism had taken over his life following the death of his father from bowel cancer. "I hit the booze," he said. I got wrapped up in myself. I wasn't there for her. The alcohol affected my relationship with Adele. I regret it, and I always will.