Adele said she 'stands by her decision' to cancel her Las Vegas residency earlier this year.
The Easy On Me singer, 34, was meant to perform a number of shows from January to April this year at Caesars Palace but they were cancelled at short notice.
She had taken to social media to share a tearful statement about the cancellation at the time and said delivery delays and the coronavirus meant they couldn't make it work.
And now, the star appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs to discuss the last-minute change.
She explained to host Lauren Laverne: "I was frightened about letting them down and I thought I could pull it together and make it work, and I couldn’t.
“I stand by that decision. I don’t think any other artist would have done what I did, and I think that is why it was such a massive, massive story."
Adele continued: "It was like, ‘I don’t care’ and things like that. You can’t buy me. You can’t buy me for nothing.
"I’m not going to just do a show because I have to or because people are going to be let down or because we are going to lose loads of money. I’m like, ‘The show is not good enough’."
The singer announced the cancellation a mere hours before she was meant to go on stage to perform.
In a teary video message at the time, Adele admitted her shows weren't ready and said a lot of the crew had been suffering with Covid and so it had pushed back production.
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After a while, Adele admitted her shows would have been "half-arsed" if they had decided to go with the original plan.
Speaking on The Graham Norton Show in mid-February, she said: "I tried my hardest and really thought I would be able to pull something together in time. I regret that I kept going until that late in the day.
"It would have been a really half-arsed show and I can’t do that. People will see straight through me up on the stage and know I didn’t want to be doing it.
"I’ve never done anything like that in my life and I’m not going to start now."
She had also promised "100 per cent" that the shows would go ahead sometime this year.
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