Adele admits being a mum was a struggle for her. Picture: Joel Ryan/Invision/AP

In the December issue of US Vanity Fair the 10-time Grammy award winning artist speaks up, rather confrontingly, about the rigours following the birth of her first child Angelo in 2012.

She tells the magazine she had severe “post-partum depression ... and it frightened me”.

Adele opened up to Vanity Fair about parenting and her struggle with postpartum depression in an issue for the magazine's December 2016 issue. Picture: APSource:AP

The singer avoided medication, and the good advice of her boyfriend Simon Konecki to spend time with mothers.

“F*ck that,” she said. ‘I ain’t hanging around with a f*ckin’ bunch of mothers.’ Then, without realising it, I was gravitating towards pregnant women and other women with children, because I found they’re a bit more patient. You’ll be talking to someone, but you’re not really listening, because you’re so f*ckin’ tired.”

The 25 singer said she felt the typical fears most mothers with post-partum depression deal with.

“My knowledge of post-partum — or post-natal, as we call it in England — is that you don’t want to be with your child; you’re worried you might hurt your child; you’re worried you weren’t doing a good job,” reported Rolling Stone.

“But I was obsessed with my child. I felt very inadequate; I felt like I’d made the worst decision of my life … It can come in many different forms.”

Elsewhere in her candid interview, the 28-year-old singer spoke about US presidential candidate Donald Trump. “We only know Trump from The Apprentice,” “so we think a reality star is running for president. I just don’t think anybody should be building walls or shit like that right now. I think we need to look after each other. Everyone must vote!,” she told Vanity Fair.

She also speaks about her lack of desire to tour again, saying stage fright and touring wore her down. “I’d still like to make records, but I’d be fine if I never heard the applause again,” she said.