Adele Revealed the Tearful Conversation She Had With Beyoncé After Her Grammy Win

In 2017, a stunned Adele paid tribute to Beyoncé after accepting the Grammy for Album of the Year. Adele has often stated that she thinks Beyoncé should have taken home the top prize instead of her. After she won the award, she made sure to tell Beyoncé as much. She revealed the tearful conversation she had with the Lemonade artist.

Adele had a conversation with Beyoncé after winning her AOTY Grammy

In 2017, Adele won Album of the Year for her album 25. In her acceptance speech, she asserted her belief that Beyoncé should have taken home the trophy.

“My personal opinion is that Beyoncé definitely should have won,” Adele told Vogue in 2021. “I just got this feeling: I f***ing won it. I got overwhelmed, with, like, I will have to go and tell her how much her record means to me.”

After accepting her award, Adele said she wanted to speak to Beyoncé. She felt too nervous on the first pass, and her then-husband, Simon Konecki, had to yank her back to Beyoncé’s dressing room. Beyoncé’s publicist cleared the room to allow them to speak. 

“I just said to her, like, the way that the Grammys works, and the people who control it at the very, very top — they don’t know what a visual album is,” Adele recalled. “They don’t want to support the way that she’s moving things forward with her releases and the things that she’s talking about.”

She shared why she felt Beyoncé deserved to win.

“For my friends who are women of color, it was such a huge acknowledgment for them, of the sort of undermined grief that they go through,” she said. “For her to nail that on the head, and also bring in the entire globe? I was like, This album is my album, she just knows what I’m going through. That album was not written for me. But yet I could still feel like, This is the biggest gift.”

Beyoncé won Album of the Year for Cowboy Carter in 2025.