Adele Talks 'Supportive' Boyfriend, How Becoming a Mom Helped Her Career

— -- Adele doesn’t often get personal about her home life, but in a new cover story for Rolling Stone, she opened up about her “serious” boyfriend, Simon Konecki, and their 3-year-old son, Angelo.

"He's so supportive," she said of Konecki. "And that takes a very big man, because I'm very successful at what I do. My last boyfriend was uncomfortable with how successful I was, and the fact that he had to share me with lots of people."

With that level of success, though, rumors typically follow. Adele has heard it all regarding her relationship with Konecki, to whom she was first linked in 2011, and cleared up the falsehoods.

"I have said a million times I'm not married and everyone still says we are," she said. "But, yeah, we're still together. We haven't broken up. We've never broken up. We've been together. We just haven't felt the need to get married. We've got a kid together. I feel like that's a big enough commitment."

Indeed, she even wrote a song about the relationship for her forthcoming album, "25." It's called "Water Under the Bridge.""It was sort of about a relationship suddenly getting really, really serious," she said, "and then getting a bit frightened by it, and then realizing that, 'I think this must be right. This is the relationship that I want to be in for as long as I can possibly be in it.'"

Adele added that getting pregnant right at the height of her fame actually turned out to be a good thing for her career. She admitted she may not have come back with a new album had she not had a baby.

“I think actually the pregnancy was perfect timing in the end,” she said. “It might've seemed like the most ridiculous time to have a baby, but I was starting to get a bit afraid of everything."

She added that Angelo, whom she calls “a little angel,” eased her fears.

"When I had him, it made everything all right, and I trusted everything because the world had given me this miracle, you know, so I became a bit of a hippie, an Earth mother," she said.

These days, Adele says she mostly hangs with her family and a close group of old friends. Not exactly a pop star “squad,” in the Taylor Swift sense of the word.

"I've heard about a squad," Adele said. "I wish my squad was all supermodels. We are, in our brains. I guess I have my own squad. It's not as interesting as some of the other squads that are around right now."

Then she has an idea: "But maybe Rihanna can be in my squad! That would be really cool. Oh, God. She's life itself, isn't she? I love her."