Adele's ex-boyfriend demands to be paid for being a 'p----'

Adele's ex-boyfriend is demanding a share of the millions she's made chronicling their doomed relationship.

Currently perched atop the charts with her worldwide smash album 21, Adele is busy fending off an ex claiming he deserves a portion of the royalties she made from previous album 19 because it was their failed coupling that inspired many of the tracks.

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“For about a week he was calling and was deadly serious about it. Finally, I said ‘Well, you made my life hell, so I lived it and now I deserve it'," Adele told The Sun.

"He really thought he’d had some input into the creative process by being a p---. I’ll give him the credit – he made me an adult, and put me on the road that I’m travelling.”