Garth Brooks has been accused of sexual harassment.
On October 3, an unnamed woman filed a lawsuit claiming she has worked as the iconic singer’s makeup artist and stylist since 2017; The woman also says she was hired to do wife Trisha Yearwood’s makeup in 1999.
In legal documents, the woman accuses Brooks of raping her… stripping her in her presence… exposing her genitals and buttocks… and having sex and sexual fantasies in multiple incidents five years ago. Talked openly about.
The alleged victim wrote in her lawsuit, “Brooks increased the frequency of his sexual interactions with Ms. Roe, and this included repeated comments to him about having a threesome with his wife, in which she hinted That Ms. Roe would be the third person.” ,
Jane Roe says she stopped working for Brooks and moved to Mississippi around May 2021.
Thursday night, Brooks released a statement in response to the horrific allegation.
“For the past two months, I have been harassed with threats, lies and sad stories about what my future would hold if I did not write a multi-million dollar check. It’s like waving a loaded gun in my face,” the message opens.
Perhaps the most successful country artist of all time, Brooks continued:
“Hush money, no matter how much or how little, is still hush money. In my mind, this means I am accepting behavior for which I am incapable – ugly acts that no human being should do to another.
“We had filed a case against this person about a month ago for speaking against extortion and character assassination.
“We filed this anonymously for the sake of the families on both sides.”
Although this is the singer’s first time speaking publicly about the lawsuit, he previously denied the woman’s claims in a complaint he filed with the intention of stopping her allegations from going viral.
In that filing, Brooks said the woman was a “lying extortionist intent on destroying his professional reputation” and went on as follows:
,[Her] The allegations are not true. [She] However, he is well aware that such false allegations would cause huge, irreparable damage to the reputation the plaintiff has earned as a decent and caring person, as well as cause irreparable damage to his family and consequently to his career and Livelihoods will suffer irreparable damage. If he has followed through on his threat to ‘file publicly’ his fabricated case.
“Indeed, such knowledge undoubtedly explains why [she] Threatened to file suit through a ‘confidential’ demand letter instead of merely filing suit for redress of her alleged (but false) injuries.
On October 3, Brooks concluded his reply thus:
I want to play music tonight. I want to continue my good work further. It breaks my heart that these wonderful things are now in question.
I trust the system, I’m not afraid of the truth, and I’m not the man they portrayed me to be,
Yearwood, who married Brooks in 2005, has yet to address the scandal.