‘The Voice’ addresses last week’s scandal; ‘Voice’ viewers still mad

In the biggest scandal in The Voice history, aka #Bathrobegate, Adam Levine’s favorite team member, Reagan Strange, won the Instant Save sing-off without actually, um, singing. (She mysteriously sat on the sidelines wearing full hair and makeup and — you guessed it — a bathrobe.) Meanwhile, Adam threw his other contestant, DeAndre Nico — who actually did sing, and quite well, for the Save — under the bus. Every Voice fan in America, and even Adam’s fellow coach Kelly Clarkson, was outraged.

Viewers were still mad six days later, as Adam and Reagan returned for Monday’s top eight performance episode. So the show attempted to address the #Bathrobegate fallout.

Judging from reactions on Twitter, people are still mad.

To backtrack for context: Shortly after his controversial elimination, DeAndre did a TV interview with 12 News during which he seemed to hold a grudge, saying Adam had “sold [him] out” and vaguely implying that Reagan’s reason for not singing last week had something to do with “anxiety.” (Team Blake’s Dave Fenley, the other contestant who sang for the Save and was eliminated, seemed to substantiate this theory, when he replied to a concerned fan’s tweet saying Reagan had “no illness.”) Then, Reagan posted a defensive tweet (“I don’t expect some people to understand. They weren’t there.”) that did little to calm the pitchfork-wielding Voice masses.

Anyway, this Monday, Adam — who had been MIA on Twitter since last week’s results show debacle — claimed that everything was now peachy and that all had been forgiven. “It was a strange week, but it’s over now,” he insisted unconvincingly. “DeAndre’s my boy. I love him. We talked.”

Fans didn’t buy it, of course. When Adam and Reagan FaceTimed with DeAndre during Monday’s rehearsal, viewers balked at how staged it all seemed and even joked that DeAndre was probably contractually obligated to play along. And when Adam and Reagan starred in a supposedly feel-good segment/stunt for Toys for Tots, the interweb collectively rolled its eyes at that attempt at damage control.

Judging from Adam’s post-performance comments, he knows #Bathrobegate has doomed Reagan and is likely to keep her out of next week’s finale. “Regardless of what happens tomorrow and next week, I think that you have a very bright future, and it’s been an honor being your coach, no matter what happens,” was his kiss-off.