Adele: 'I was never good at school'

Grammy Award winner Adele has admitted that she struggled at school.

The singer, who releases her second studio album 21 in the US next week, confessed that she was intimidated by the "negative attitudes" of her teachers.

She is quoted by STV as saying: "I had to bear the brunt of negative attitudes from authority figures, such as teachers, who led me to believe that success was unrealistic.

"So I chose to survive rather than live in a fantasy world. I'm not, and never have been, very academic - it was always music for me.

"I remember when I was 10, I nicked my mum's Lauryn Hill album and listened to it every day after school in my bedroom, sitting on my little sofa bed and hoping to God that one day I'd be a singer."