Adam Levine has not had a good week. Now an alleged serial cheater, the father-of-two has faced public embarrassment after sexual and flirty text messages sent from him to multiple women surfaced. But that was just the tip of the iceberg.
Internet super sleuths have managed to unearth a 2009 Cosmopolitan interview, during which the now-43-year-old - whose supermodel wife, Behati Prinsloo, is pregnant with the couple's third child - admits that he has cheated on his romantic partners.
The women's magazine interviewed the singer for its 'Fun and Fearless Males 2009' series. During the piece, the Maroon 5 frontman, who was 29 at the time, was asked five questions including the one that has caught everyone's attention lately: "Why do men cheat?"
"Instinctively, monogamy is not in our genetic makeup," he said, before adding: "People cheat. I have cheated. And you know what? There is nothing worse than the feeling of doing it."
Later during the interview, Levine is also asked what his "best feature is." The award-winning musician replied: "My ability to detach myself — it's also my worst feature. I let myself off the hook to the point where it's a bad thing. People are hard on themselves. I'm not."
Levine - who already shares two young daughters with Prinsloo - has recently been receiving a lot of backlash, especially after details emerged that revealed Levine allegedly contacted an ex-lover to ask if he could name his son after her.
Many users also hit out at the father's choice to send flirtatious messages to several women from his verified account, and the fact he continued doing so behind his pregnant wife's back.
"I wanna know where Adam Levine gets his audacity from. Cheating on your pregnant wife? The woman you've been with for a decade? The woman that has carried 3 of your children now? The Victoria's Secret model? For some Instagram trash? Trash men are trash men. End of story," someone furiously tweeted.
One user even pointed to the fact that people will cheat regardless of their partner's status or beauty, writing: "After Adam Levine's cheating on his wife let's remember and normalize the fact that cheating was never about a woman's lack of beauty, worth or anything for that matter but instead a man's abundance of insecurities, unworthiness and desperation. Don't let men manipulate that reality [sic]."
The rumor mill begun churning out reports of Levine's infidelity following the release of a video from an Instagram model, Sumner Stroh, who alleged she had a year-long affair with the singer.
The 23-year-old added that he was duplicitous, especially when it came to disclosing the status of his marriage to Prinsloo, claiming she had no idea he was still happily married to the mother of his children.
The model detailed how Levine even asked whether he could name his son Sumner after her. Yikes.
Following the video, numerous other women have come forward and accused the singer of sending them flirtatious messages, including his former yoga instructor. Screenshots of text messages have been released, which show Levine making sexual comments about women's bodies.
One message in particular shows Levine writing: "It is truly unreal how f***ing hot you are."
Levine's text message exchanges have made him a laughing stock across social media. "Damn Adam Levine is bad at sexting. I bet nobody wants to sleep with him because of that. He's probably super lonely," one person tweeted.
Another added: "Celebrity sexts are not bad they are compelling works of experimental autofiction that shatter public expectations of both form and content."
When Maroon 5 sang "she will be loved," Levine didn't specify exactly who would be loved. Perhaps the frontman meant multiple women besides his wife.
