Adam Levine has addressed a viral TikTok video of his reaction to a fan grabbing him onstage during a recent show at Hollywood Bowl.
The clip showed a female fan jumping onstage and grabbing the Maroon 5 frontman during Audacy’s We Can Survive concert before security quickly pulled her away.
The footage sparked a backlash after Levine froze in the middle of the song and shouted âfuckâ before shaking himself off and resuming the performance.
Now, Levine has clarified his actions in a video posted online.
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âI just wanted to address the Hollywood Bowl incident thing, a fan coming up to me onstage,â he said. âI have always been someone that loves, respects, worships our fans. Without our fans, we donât have a job. I say that all the time to our fans. To think that anyone would believe that I thought that our fans were beneath us or less than us makes my stomach turn. Itâs just not who I am, itâs not who Iâve ever been.â
âSo I just need you guys to know, I was really startled,â Levine continued. âAnd sometimes when youâre startled, you have to shake it off and move on, cos Iâm doing my job up there. Itâs what I pride myself on. So I need to let you guys know what my heart is, and my heart is that connection that exists between the band performing onstage and the fans. I hope we can all understand that.â
Earlier this year, Levine said that he was disappointed that there “aren’t any bands any more”.
He said at the time: “Thereâs no bands any more, and I feel like theyâre a dying breed. And so I kind of, in a weird way, as far as ⌠I mean, there still are plenty of bands, and maybe theyâre not in the limelight quite as much, or in the pop limelight, but I wish there could be more of those around.”
In response to Levine’s comments, Garbage‘s Twitter accounted later tweeted: “What are we Adam Levine? CATS?!?!?”
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