She was accused of 'cultural appropriation' for wearing a Jamaican-flag bikini and Bantu knots to mark Notting Hill Carnival last summer.
And now Adele, 33, has revealed that her Instagram password was taken off her after she posted the controversial photograph of herself, confessing that her team were 'worried' about what she might share on social media if she 'got drunk or annoyed'.
As she underwent a makeup transformation with Nikkie de Jager, 27 - who is better known as Nikkie Tutorials - Adele also admitted that she wishes Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, 49, was her father.
Access revoked! Adele, 33, has revealed that her Instagram password was taken off her after she posted a controversial photograph of herself last summer
Adele revealed that never used to have access to her social media accounts, but was given her passwords to send memes to her friends during the pandemic.
However, she had the privilege revoked after posting a controversial photograph of herself posing in the garden of her $9.5million Beverly Hills home, with her hair in Bantu knots.
Asked if she reads DMs a lot, Adele revealed: 'No, in Covid they let me have my password. I was never allowed by passwords for my socials before.
'That's actually quite a well known fact. But obviously the internet was on fire during Covid it kept everyone's moral up!'
Controversy: She was accused of 'cultural appropriation' for wearing a Jamaican-flag bikini and Bantu knots to mark Notting Hill Carnival last summer
'Oh was that because you kept responding to everyone?' asked Nikkie, to which Adele responded: 'No no I think they were just worried that if I got drunk or annoyed... Not really about responding to anyone, more just posting my general thoughts.
'Then I posted a picture, which a lot of people know about. It's the only picture I posted myself... and then they took my password away from me again.
Adele received significant amounts of backlash for her Notting Hill Carnival post, with many suggesting she was profiting off black culture with her choice of outfit and hairstyle.
Too risky! 'I posted a picture, which a lot of people know about. It's the only picture I posted myself... and then they took my password away from me' explained Adele
Speaking to Vogue in October. Adele said of the controversy: 'I could see comments being like, 'the nerve to not take it down,' which I totally get.
'But if I take it down, it's me acting like it never happened. And it did. I totally get why people felt like it was appropriating.
'I had thought, if you don't go dressed to celebrate the Jamaican culture – and in so many ways we're so entwined in that part of London – then it's a little bit like,
