Adam Levine and Christina Aguilera may seem to be at each other’s throats on The Voice, but off camera, they actually may get along quite well. In fact, the Maroon 5 frontman is going to bat for his Voice co-mentor and defending against haters who criticize Christina about her weight.

“People shouldn’t say those kinds of things because, f–k you. It’s like, come on guys, grow up…The one thing about the culture right now—celebrity culture particularly—that is so ugly is [that] people feel like they can just say nasty things about other people…she gets a lot of it. It pisses me off. Of course I have her back, of course I defend her.”

AW, that’s so sweet. But how about those fights you two had on camera, Adam? Adam says, “The fights that everyone thought we were having were fictional—we never hated each other, we never were having some sort of secret battles that everyone thought we were having…They were silly bickering things that brother and sister would do. It’s not nearly what everybody thought… We’re all good, Christina and I.”