Adele is left temporarily DEAF in one ear after suffering from an agonising infection which she claims was ‘more painful than childbirth’

Adele is temporarily deaf in one ear after suffering from a painful ear infection for the past eight weeks.

The Hello singer, 36, has experienced pain ‘worse than childbirth’ after being struck by a rare ‘grim’ infection.

Adele told her audience that she had contracted a rare water bacteria during her ten-day residency in Munich in August.

She said: ‘I have an ear infection, which is pretty grim.

‘I’ve never had one before. It’s the most painful thing that has ever happened to me.

‘It was worse than childbirth. It is a rare water bacterium. It is very difficult to treat.

“I was on the wrong antibiotic for a few days and they were able to give me one that started working.”

Adele – who has son Angelo, 12, with her ex-husband Simon Konecki – is coming to the end of her Weekends With Adele residency in Sin City after two years of performing there sporadically.

The singer started a course of antibiotics to treat the condition, but was initially prescribed the wrong one for a few days.

Due to the wrong medication, the artist wanted to cut off her ear because of the pain.

She said: ‘I was on the wrong antibiotics for a few days and they managed to give me one which started to work. I wanted to cut off my ear a few times.

‘I’m no longer in pain, which is great, but I’m a bit deaf in my left ear!’

Meanwhile, the singer – who is now engaged to sports agent Rich Paul – is a cat lover and revealed she has created a special room in her mansion so she can one day rescue a host of moggies.

She said: ‘I’m definitely going to become an emergency shelter cat mum as soon as I move into my new home.

‘I’ve created a room that my fiancé doesn’t even know exists, and I’m going to have lots of crates with all the essentials built into the wall.

‘He’ll never know about it, but he might now because I said it on stage.

“I’d love to do it full time.”