During a recent performance in Germany, Adele revealed that she wanted to take a break. However, this is not the first time she has said she wants to put her music career on hold.

The “Rolling in the Deep” singer ended her Munich residency on August 31, where she announced that she would be taking a long break from music after her Las Vegas residency ended. A video of Adele sharing the news during her show has since been uploaded to TikTok by user @niclas.mitz.

Newsweek contacted a spokesperson for Adele via email on Monday for comment.

“I just need a break and I have – I’ve spent the last seven years building a new life for myself and I want to live it now,” she told the audience, becoming increasingly emotional.

“I want to live the new life I have built for myself and I will miss you terribly.”

The singer explained that she had originally planned her performance in Munich as her last performance before her hiatus, but her plans were changed due to the postponement of her rescheduled concerts in Las Vegas to later this year.

“I have ten more shows to do, but after that I won’t see you for an incredibly long time and you will remain in my heart for the entire duration of my break,” she said.

“And I’m going to dream about those shows and all the other shows I’ve done over the last three years. And I’m really, really going to keep them deep in my heart forever. It was incredible.”

Adele had originally announced her Las Vegas performance for 2021, but disappointed her fans by postponing the tour to November 2022. In a video she uploaded online, the singer explained that this was because the standard of the show did not meet her expectations and she and her team were not ready.

After the shows began, Adele eventually extended her dates into 2023 and through most of 2024. Her final performances are scheduled for October 25 to November 23, 2024.

This isn’t the first time Adele has spoken about taking a break from her music career. In July, the Grammy winner told German public broadcaster ZDF that her “tank was pretty empty” and she wanted to do other “creative things.”

“I have no plans for new music at all. I want to take a big break after this and I think I want to do other creative things for a short while,” she said. “You know, I don’t sing at home at all. How weird is that?”

Adele also revealed to the outlet that she does not enjoy being famous: “I miss everything about the time before I was famous, but I think the anonymity the most.”

“I don’t like being famous. I love that I can make music whenever I want and that people are receptive to it and like it, because that’s pretty unimaginable… that kind of thing never happens to people.”

The singer also told the Hollywood Reporters in December 2023 that she has no plans to release new music in the near future.

“I’m worried about straining my voice (at the residency). It’s a lot of singing. It’s two hours long. It’s all live. It’s a lot,” she said.

“And I’m fucking talking and talking my ass off. But yeah, I don’t have anything to say yet. I haven’t even thought about it.”

Adele also spoke about her concerns about being a musician in 2017 during her Adele Live 2016 Tour that lasted from February 29, 2016 to June 29, 2017.

“Touring is not for me. Applause makes me feel a little vulnerable,” she told the audience at Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland, according to the New Zealand Herald.

“I don’t know if I’ll ever tour again. The only reason I toured is because of you. I’m not sure touring is my thing.”

However, the singer said touring has changed her life, adding: “I understand why I do it.”

Adele had expressed similar reservations about touring during the first show of the Australian leg of the tour on February 27, 2017 in Perth.

“I don’t know if I’ll tour again, but I’m here now and it’s fucking beautiful and I love it,” she said during a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love” in Perth, per The Guardian.