VIDEO: Maroon 5's Adam Levine "I hate this country" on "THE VOICE"


"I hate this county" at 1:26 elapsed time.

Adam Levine: "I was just being sarcastic." Boo hoo.

Comment made after Sarah Simmons and Judith Hill were sent home.

"Yeah I was a little surprised" (I got let go).

-- Judith Hill

Maybe the Maroon 5 front man will sing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl next year. Maybe past drug use has given him memory problems, and he forgot about the open mic.

"I've done drugs. I smoked a lot of pot when I was younger. There is a place in this world for a little weed every once in a while. I've written songs after smoking a joint and it was good."

In 2013, Levine was mentioned in a hostile work environment lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by an unnamed security guard who claimed that Universal Music Publishing Group’s Santa Monica location were "infiltrated with pervasive drug use where you could smell marijuana seeping from various offices and openly used in common areas, and lounges." The female security guard claimed that when she complained about the marijuana smoke coming from one of the studios, she was told that "it's Adam Levine. You know from Maroon 5 ... He can do whatever he wants ... If he wants to come to the lobby and do a line of cocaine on the floor, it's OK." In an official statement to The Hollywood Reporter April 2013, UMPG described the allegations against as "absurd"