Garth Brooks has been accused of sexual assault.
On October 3, an unnamed lady filed a lawsuit that claimed she labored as the enduring singer’s make-up artist and stylist starting in 2017; the lady additionally says she was employed to do spouse Trisha Yearwood’s make-up in 1999.
Within the authorized doc, the lady 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.
“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.
Maybe probably 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 conduct 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.”
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 lady was a “lying extortionist who intended on destroying his professional reputation,” and it went on as follows:
“[Her] allegations aren’t true. [She] is effectively conscious, nonetheless, of the substantial, irreparable injury such false allegations would do to Plaintiff’s well-earned fame as an honest and caring individual, together with the unavoidable injury to his household and the irreparable injury to his profession and livelihood that will 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.”
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 worry 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.
