The Instagram model, 23, accused the Maroon 5 frontman, 43, of having a year-long affair with her in a TikTok video that has now gone viral.
“At the time, I was young, I was naive and, quite frankly, I feel exploited,” Stroh said in the clip posted on Monday, which has since had more than 20 million views.
“I wasn’t in ’the scene’ like I am now, so I was definitely very easily manipulated,” she added, while sharing screenshots of their alleged conversations.
Stroh said that she had no intention of coming forward but felt forced to tell her story after a friend she thought she could trust allegedly tried selling the screenshots to a tabloid.
Levine has been married to Victoria’s Secret model Behati Prinsloo since 2014, after the couple met through a mutual friend in 2012.
They share two daughters together, Dusty Rose, who celebrates her 6th birthday on Wednesday, and Gio Grace, 4, and Prinsloo, 34, is pregnant with their third child.
In Stroh’s initial post, she also claimed that Levine reached out to her after “months” without speaking to ask her permission to name his third baby after her.
“Ok serious question. I’m having another baby and if it’s [a] boy I really wanna name it Sumner. You ok with that? DEAD serious,” read a screenshot allegedly from Levine.
On Tuesday, Levine spoke out about the accusations surrounding him with a lengthy statement posted via his Instagram Story.
“A lot is being said about me right now and I want to clear the air,” he wrote. “I used poor judgment in speaking with anyone other than my wife in ANY kind of flirtatious manner. I did not have an affair, nevertheless, I crossed the line during a regrettable period in my life.”
The Voice coach wrote: “In certain instances it became inappropriate; I have addressed that and taken proactive steps to remedy this with my family. My wife and my family is all I care about in this world.
“To be this naive and stupid enough to risk the only thing that truly matters to me was the greatest mistake I could ever make. I will never make it again. I take full responsibility. We will get through it. And we will get through it together.”
Stroh seemingly responded to his statement on her own Instagram Story. “Someone get this man a dictionary,” she said.
Newsweek has reached out to Levine’s representative for comment.
In April 2022, Prinsloo spoke about her husband in an interview with The Zoe Report. “We’re best friends and we have such similar interests,” she said. “We try and put each other first. So we get our alone time in—but kids are crazy!”
In 2019, the Namibia native told Net-A-Porter’s PORTER Edit’s magazine that their first meeting was “love at first sight.”
