Blake Shelton performs at the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Festival on Sept. 19, 2015.
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Country singer Blake Shelton filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against In Touch Weekly's parent company for a story that claims he has hit "rock bottom" and that his friends are "terrified" he could end up dead.
In filing his lawsuit against Bauer Media Group, The Voice coach said he let a previous story in magazine claiming he had a marriage affair slide, but drew the line at the rehab allegations.
"Mr. Shelton is not in rehab and has no plans to go to rehab, which Bauer would have known had it bothered to contact any of Mr. Shelton's representatives prior to publication," the complaint states.
Blake Shelton arrives at Season 8 of The Voice.
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Shelton is taking legal action to "set the record straight — he is not in rehab, his 'close circle' is not trying to seek an intervention," the lawsuit states.
Shelton is accusing Bauer media of publishing misleading stories about him for the purpose of driving magazine sales. The lawsuit states Shelton was hard at work days after the story — "The Real Story: REHAB for Blake" — published on Sept. 16. Among the events on his itinerary, a live performance at the iHeartRadio Music Festival on Sept. 19 and on the season premier of NBC's The Voice.
The In Touch Weekly alleged that Shelton traveled to Mexico for a bachelor party post his split with Miranda Lambert, partied with strippers and then them back to his hotel room's hot tub.
Shelton, however, says his hotel didn't even have a hot tub and adamantly denies that womanizing or drinking contributed to his divorce from Lambert. The complaint also states that the singer did not start drinking when he was 14 after his brother's death.
Shelton also points out that a previous In Touch Weekly story alleging he had an affair with a woman named Candy Groves was false. Shelton contends that Groves was a friend, with whom he "did not have a sexual relationship or affair of any nature, whatsoever."
Shelton says in the lawsuit that In Touch Weekly refused his demands to retract the story.
Representatives for Bauer media did not immediately responded to BuzzFeed News' request for comment.
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