
Garth Brooks. Paul Morigi/Getty Photographs
Garth Brooks has damaged his silence after being accused of sexual assault and battery.
“For the final two months, I’ve been hassled to no finish with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future can be if I didn’t write a examine for a lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}. It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face,” Brooks, 62, mentioned Thursday, October 3, in an announcement to Us Weekly.
“Hush cash, irrespective of how a lot or how little, continues 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,” he continued. “We filed swimsuit towards this particular person practically a month in the past to talk out towards extortion and defamation of character. We filed it anonymously for the sake of households on either side.”
“I wish to play music tonight,” he added. “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.”
Brooks was named in a Thursday, October 3, grievance obtained by CNN, during which an nameless girl claimed that the nation singer raped her in 2019 whereas she was working as a hairstylist for him.
Within the lawsuit, the hairstylist (known as Jane Roe) alleged that she began working for Brooks in 2017 after steadily dealing with the glam for his spouse, Trisha Yearwood. Roe additionally claimed that Brooks despatched her sexually specific textual content messages, repeatedly uncovered his genitals in her presence and made “repeated remarks” about “having a threesome” with Yearwood, 60. (Brooks and Yearwood have been married since 2005 following respective divorces.)
Forward of Roe’s lawsuit, Brooks anonymously filed a grievance to attempt to bar her from repeating the allegations and he vehemently denied her account.
“Defendant’s allegations are usually not true,” Brooks’ submitting learn, per CNN. “Defendant is properly conscious, nevertheless, of the substantial, irreparable injury such false allegations would do to Plaintiff’s well-earned fame as a good and caring particular person, together with the unavoidable injury to his household and the irreparable injury to his profession and livelihood that might consequence if she made good on her risk to ‘publicly file’ her fabricated lawsuit.”

Roe’s attorneys, in the meantime, informed CNN that Brooks was making an attempt to “silence” Roe in an “act of desperation.”
“We’re assured that Brooks shall be held accountable for his actions,” attorneys Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker mentioned of their assertion to the outlet. “We applaud our shopper’s braveness in shifting ahead together with her grievance towards Garth Brooks. The grievance filed as we speak demonstrates that sexual predators exist not solely in company America, Hollywood and within the rap and rock and roll industries, but additionally on the earth of nation music.”
Yearwood, for her half, has not addressed Brooks’ scandal. A number of days earlier than Roe’s lawsuit made headlines, Yearwood posted an Instagram picture of the married couple performing in Las Vegas late final month.

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. Roy Rochlin/WireImage
Final yr, Brooks informed Us Weekly that he was usually “dependent” on Yearwood.
“I really feel so helpless as a result of there’s nothing I can’t do with out her,” Brooks solely informed Us in August 2023, months earlier than they opened their joint Nashville bar. “There’s nothing I can’t do together with her and there’s nothing I can do with out her. It’s a blessing and a curse that you just really feel so free and impartial when she’s there and also you’re so dependent when she’s not there … I don’t assume she feels this manner in any respect, however I do know I do.”
Earlier than marrying Yearwood, the Grammy winner was married to first spouse Sandy Mahl between 1986 and 2001. Three years after their marriage ceremony, Brooks admittedly cheated on Mahl, with whom he shares three daughters. They finally reconciled earlier than splitting for good in 2000.
In the event you or somebody you realize has been sexually assaulted, please contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.