Adele broke down after the Grammy's

Days after performing at the Grammy Awards, the Adele told Ellen DeGeneres that she "cried for days" after a glitch during her performance at the Grammys.

Many viewers noticed that the 27-year-old's performance of her emotional ballad All I Ask had some audio problems.

“Sound check was great — went really well. I was really excited and then during the changeover, the microphones fell onto the piano strings which is what the guitar noise was,” Adele revealed.

“Some people thought it was [Justin] Bieber rehearsing, but it wasn’t him. We’re on great terms. And then it kind of put the whole thing off really.”

The 25 singer knew “straight away” that something was wrong, revealing that producers had doubled up on the piano mics two days earlier in case one of them didn’t work.

“I knew where the mic was and I wanted to turn around and lift it up, but I froze,” she said, adding that she “felt like [the performance] went well.”

Adele also addressed some speculation that she was pitchy during her performance. “I’m always a bit pitchy anyways … I am! It’s emotion,” she explained. “When I’m flat and I’m sharp, I’m just emotional, but it was fine.”

The world’s reaction to her Grammy moment might have been a little unexpected, however.

“I woke up the next morning to people in England being like, ‘We still love you! Don’t worry!’ And I was like, ‘I didn’t ask you if you still loved me, but thanks. I was so embarrassed,” the singer said with a laugh, later admitting, “I cried pretty much all day yesterday.”

Adele sat down with Ellen to talk about her Grammy performance. Source: YouTube

“In fairness, I would have cried if it went really well as well,” she continued. “If it was a standout performance, I would have cried as well. I always cry! I kept spontaneously bursting into tears yesterday.”

The diva got candid about her worsening stage fright: “The more successful I get, the more pressure there is, really,” she explained.

Adele explains the moment she heard the mic fall down. Source: YouTube

But as far as she can tell, things can only go up from here. “I don’t feel like it could go that much worse than the Grammys though, so I feel like I’m alright now. Anything that happens, dust it off!”

“If it wasn’t live TV, I would have busted a joke. But because it was [live] TV, I couldn’t make it my own. I couldn’t make the disaster my own,” Adele said.

If a similar situation happened again, she’d do things differently: “Next time I have any sound issues, I am gonna stop. I’ll be like, ‘Sorry, that’s not working for me. If we have time to do it again, let’s do it, otherwise, bye!’”

Immediately following the awards show on Monday evening, Adele took to Twitter to explain her Grammy mishap the only way Adele could, plainly stating, “S**t happens. Because of it though… I’m treating myself to an in n out. So maybe it was worth it.”