--- title: Adele on The Ellen DeGeneres Show After The Grammys description: Adele told Ellen DeGeneres that she cried all day after the technical glitch at The Grammys canonical: https://time.com/4228929/adele-ellen-degeneres-crying-grammys/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-18T16:00:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:13.767Z og:title: Adele Explains Why Her California Trip Wasn't a Total Disaster og:description: A visit to Disneyland helped make up for a troubled Grammys performance og:url: https://time.com/4228929/adele-ellen-degeneres-crying-grammys/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Adele Explains Why Her California Trip Wasn't a Total Disaster twitter:description: A visit to Disneyland helped make up for a troubled Grammys performance twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Adele Explains Why Her California Trip Wasn't a Total Disaster  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 18, 2016 4:00 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 18, 2016 4:00 PM UTC On Thursday’s episode of _The Ellen DeGeneres Show_ pop sensation Adele said she couldn’t stop crying after a [microphone glitch](http://time.com/4225527/grammys-2016-adele-sound-issues-what-went-wrong/) at the [Grammys](http://time.com/4224932/grammys-2016-winners-list-nominees/) threw off her live performance of “All I Ask” from her [latest album ](http://time.com/4155801/adele-story/)[_25_](http://time.com/4155801/adele-story/)_._ “I cried pretty much all day yesterday,” she told the comedian. But the southern California trip wasn’t a total disaster. She said she cried in a good way when she went to Disneyland for the first time with her [toddler son](http://time.com/4155795/adele-time-cover-story-interview-motherhood-25/). “I was full on welled up, I was really emotional…I cried when I met Belle because… she sounded just like the character in the film, and I burst into tears.” And Ellen’s latest prank certainly must have helped cheer up the pop star. The talk show host had the Grammy winner walk into a Jamba Juice wearing an earpiece and repeat whatever she said. [You can watch it here.](http://time.com/4228864/adele-ellen-degeneres-hilarious-jamba-juice/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4228929/adele-ellen-degeneres-crying-grammys/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4228929/adele-ellen-degeneres-crying-grammys/"},"headline":"Adele Explains Why Her California Trip Wasn't a Total Disaster","datePublished":"2016-02-18T16:00:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:13.767Z","description":"A visit to Disneyland helped make up for a troubled Grammys performance","url":"https://time.com/4228929/adele-ellen-degeneres-crying-grammys/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4228929/adele-ellen-degeneres-crying-grammys/","name":"Adele Explains Why Her California Trip Wasn't a Total Disaster"}}]}] ```