Overview

• Adams, 62, disclosed in a Daily Mail piece that she had dodged or lied about her age since her 30s.
• She led daughters Charly, 23, and Bonnie, 18, to believe she was ten years younger by claiming partner Ian was a decade older, though both were born in 1962.
• The deception unraveled when Charly found her real age via a Google search and challenged her.
• Adams says the episode prompted her to confront internalized ageism and discuss how women in the public eye are judged on youth.
• On the How To Be 60 podcast, she spoke about fearing prolonged ill health in later life after witnessing her parents' decline and deaths.