Adele planted fake stories to root out gossipy friends
Adele admits to tweaking details of stories to see which friends were selling gossip to press
February 13, 2012
Adele says that, while she was sky-rocketing to fame, she tested her friends to see who was loyal by deliberately planting fake stories in the press.
Starpulse reports that the Grammy-winning superstar told 60 Minutes' Anderson Cooper that, when she became suspicious that some people within her inner-circle were selling stories about her to the press, she decided to do some sleuthing.
To figure out who's true blue and who's quick to call the tabs, Adele says she made up tales to see which ones ended up in the papers.
"I plant stories and see who leaks them and I get rid of them," the singing sensation told Cooper.

"I tell like a group of people who I'm suspicious of, I tell them all a different story with different details in it, but all roughly the same story so I can keep my eye on it, and then when it would come out I knew who it was."
Adele will likely have to be even more scrupulous in the future following her incredible success at Sunday's Grammy Awards. The star made a triumphant return following vocal cord surgery, to win Album of the Year for 21 and Song of the Year and Record of the Year for her massive hit 'Rolling in the Deep.'
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