The singer said she came close to colliding with the rapper when driving around a studio set in Los Angeles.

"I was shooting a video on one of the big American plots, six hours I was there and I wasn't doing anything,” she told The Sun.

“So I convinced someone to let me drive a golf buggy. I ran the battery out by the end of the day.

"P Diddy must have been doing a fragrance advert or something. I was in the buggy with a mate and I saw him. I meant to put the brake on and go, 'Oh, you're P Diddy!' But I hit the accelerator.”

She added: “He had to dive out the way. As we went past I was like, 'You're P Diddy'. He just said, 'Yeah, I know'. I almost, almost killed him."

Adele releases her second album '21' later this month.

(by Jason Gregory)