I think it’s safe to say it hasn’t been a good week for Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine. The musician, whose wife, Behati Prinsloo, is currently pregnant with the couple’s third child, was caught up in a cheating scandal when Instagram model Sumner Stroh took to TikTok to allege she’d been hooking up with him for a year. But that’s not all, Levine apparently messaged Stroh to ask if he could name his unborn child after her. The audacity.
Following the viral video, Levine released a statement to his Instagram Stories, saying he “crossed the line” but was never physical with anyone. But once the gate was opened, the stories just kept coming: more women began speaking out, sharing screenshots of their own apparent DMs with the singer (though it pays to note these very well could be Photoshopped) and the internet began roasting him for his dirty talk… which no joke sounds like he’s a 17-year-old virgin.
The main takeaway? Surely this man doesn’t write his own lyrics.
tbh adam Levine messages are sexy to me. I love love love when a man has like humna humna humna boinggGgG awooga energy
— Grace (@gracecamille_) September 21, 2022
Now, another person has weighed in on the drama: none other than Levine’s former yoga teacher, Alanna Zabel, who worked with him for three years from 2007 to 2010.
Zabel told the Daily Mail Levine treated her like “used trash,” originally booking her for a three-month tour as the band’s yoga instructor, before completely ignoring her messages after he sent he a text that read, “I want to spend the day with you naked.”
Though Zabel says she thinks the message may have been intended for his girlfriend at the time, the incident led to a physical altercation with her then-boyfriend. Levine then “ignored” her message about what happened, “never apologized” for sending the “flirtatious text” and “removed” her from the gig.
“I felt that we cared about each other, and he iced me out during a deeply upsetting time,” she said while speaking to The Daily Mail. “This isn’t about a love affair or a salacious text, it’s about being a decent human being.”
“Friends don’t treat each other like used trash, and that’s how he treated me.”
Ah, at least that dirty text was better than “your body is absurd.”
