Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn’t support me, so I am living her dream, it’s sweeter for both of us. It’s her 40th birthday soon and I’m going to buy her 40 presents.

In this remark Adele frames fame not as personal triumph alone but as a shared, intergenerational redemption. She links her mother’s early motherhood and financial hardship to a sense of deferred aspiration—suggesting that Adele’s success feels like “living her dream” as well as her own. The sweetness she describes comes from reversing earlier vulnerability: the child once difficult to provide for can now provide materially and emotionally. The plan to buy “40 presents” for a 40th birthday underscores gratitude expressed through tangible care, and it also highlights how celebrity wealth can be repurposed into intimate family celebration rather than status display.