Garth Brooks has been accused of sexual assault.
On October 3, an unnamed girl filed a lawsuit that claimed she labored as the enduring singer’s make-up artist and stylist starting in 2017; the girl additionally says she was employed to do spouse Trisha Yearwood’s make-up in 1999.
Within the authorized doc, the girl alleges Brooks raped her… undressed in her presence… uncovered his genitals and buttocks… and brazenly spoke about intercourse and sexual fantasies in quite a few incidents 5 years in the past.
Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks attend the seventeenth Academy Of Nation Music Honors at Ryman Auditorium on August 21, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Picture by Jason Kempin/Getty Photographs for ACM)
“Brooks increased the frequency of his sexually charged conversations with Ms. Roe, and this included his repeated remarks about having a threesome with his wife in which he implied that Ms. Roe would be the third person,” the alleged sufferer wrote in her lawsuit.
Jane Roe says she stopped working for Brooks and moved to Mississippi round Might 2021.
On Thursday evening, Brooks issued an announcement to in response to this horrible allegation.
“For the last two months, I have been hassled to no end with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future would be if I did not write a check for many millions of dollars. It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face,” this message opens.
Garth Brooks speaks on stage throughout NSAI 2023 Nashville Songwriter Awards at Ryman Auditorium on September 26, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Picture by Danielle Del Valle/Getty Photographs)
Maybe essentially the most profitable nation artist of all-time, Brooks added:
“Hush cash, irrespective of how a lot or how little, remains to be hush cash. In my thoughts, meaning I’m admitting to habits I’m incapable of — ugly acts no human ought to ever do to a different.
“We filed go well with in opposition to this individual almost a month in the past to talk out in opposition to extortion and defamation of character.
“We filed it anonymously for the sake of families on both sides.”
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood attend the 58th Academy Of Nation Music Awards at The Ford Heart at The Star on Might 11, 2023 in Frisco, Texas. (Picture by Jason Kempin/Getty Photographs)
Though this marks the singer’s first time talking publicly in regards to the lawsuit, he beforehand denied the girl’s claims in a criticism filed with the intention of blocking her accusations from going viral.
In that submitting, Brooks mentioned this girl was a “lying extortionist who intended on destroying his professional reputation,” and it went on as follows:
“[Her] allegations usually are not true. [She] is properly conscious, nevertheless, of the substantial, irreparable harm such false allegations would do to Plaintiff’s well-earned popularity as an honest and caring individual, together with the unavoidable harm to his household and the irreparable harm to his profession and livelihood that might outcome if she made good on her menace to ‘publicly file’ her fabricated lawsuit.
“Indeed, such knowledge no doubt explains why [she] threatened to file suit through a ‘confidential’ demand letter rather than simply filing suit to redress her alleged (but untrue) injuries.”
Garth Brooks attends a reception for the 2022 Kennedy Heart honorees hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden, on the White Home on December 4, 2022. (Getty)
On October 3, Brooks concluded his reply on this method:
I wish to play music tonight. I wish to proceed our good deeds going ahead. It breaks my coronary heart these great issues are in query now.
I belief the system, I don’t concern the reality, and I’m not the person they’ve painted me to be.
Yearwood, who married Brooks in 2005, has not but addressed this scandal.
