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Why did Christina leave The Voice?

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Christina Aguilera served as a judge on “The Voice” for six seasons from 2011 to 2016 and was one of the original coaches alongside Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine, and Blake Shelton.

Everyone had been waiting for her to ultimately come back to the show. The Grammy winner has made it clear that she won’t ever again serve as a coach on “The Voice.”

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Why did Christina leave The Voice?

“What I was doing last year with ‘Liberation’ was kind of a shedding of a certain skin on some level,” she told People magazine about her eighth studio album.

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“Prior to that, I had given myself fully to television and being a part of a network that really wasn’t quite the fit for me after the amount of time I put in,” she added about leaving the popular singing competition.

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“I wanted to get grounded again in my artist body, and that’s what I did with ‘Liberation,’” the “Beautiful” singer continued.

“Moving on to this era, it’s just an exciting time of fresh energy. Vegas is coming at the perfect time for me,” she said of her extremely profitable Las Vegas residency.

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Regarding her decision to leave “The Voice,” Aguilera stated to Billboard magazine in May 2018: “It became something that I didn’t believe was what I had signed up for in season one… Realizing that it is not about music. Making good TV moments and story manipulation are the goals.