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Trisha Yearwood stays a stoic supporter of her husband Garth Brooks as he faces accusations of sexual assault and battery.
Yearwood, 60, took to social media on Monday, October 7, to reaffirm her place, posting a photograph of herself performing alongside Brooks, 62, in the course of the opening night time of his Caesars Palace residency in Las Vegas in 2023.
The X submit captures Yearwood turned in the direction of her husband, whom she married in December 2005, whereas singing right into a microphone as Brooks additionally sings and strums a guitar.
Yearwood merely captioned the picture, “Love One One other.”
SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP by way of Getty Photos Nation singer Garth Brooks has confronted ups and downs all through his profession. Brooks rose to fame in 1989 with the discharge of his self-titled debut album. He has since gone on to earn two Grammy Awards, 23 Academy of Nation Music Awards, two CMT Awards, 10 CMA Awards and lots of […]
Yearwood’s submit serves as her first public assertion since Brooks was named in a Thursday, October 3, criticism wherein an nameless lady claimed Brooks raped her in 2019 whereas she was working for him as a hair stylist. (CNN broke the information initially.)
Within the lawsuit, which was obtained by Us Weekly, the hairstylist (known as Jane Roe) alleged that she started working for Brooks in 2017 after working for Yearwood. Roe 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.
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood Jason Kempin/Getty Photos for ACM
A number of weeks previous to Roe’s submitting, Brooks anonymously filed a criticism in opposition to Roe to try to bar her from repeating the allegations, and in doing so denied any wrongdoing.
“The defendant’s allegations aren’t true,” Brooks’ submitting learn. “Defendant is nicely conscious, nevertheless, of the substantial, irreparable injury such false allegations would do to Plaintiff’s well-earned status as a good and caring individual, together with the unavoidable injury to his household and the irreparable injury to his profession and livelihood that may outcome if she made good on her risk to ‘publicly file’ her fabricated lawsuit.”
Brooks spoke out himself on October 3, publicly acknowledging the accusations. “For the final two months, I’ve been hassled to no finish with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future could be if I didn’t write a examine for a lot of thousands and thousands of {dollars}. It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face,” he mentioned in an announcement supplied to Us.
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are one of many nation music’s most well-known {couples}, however they’ve undoubtedly had their ups and downs. “Folks thought, ‘Effectively, two celebrities who’re in the identical enterprise, they received’t final,’” Yearwood solely advised Us Weekly in 2018. “I’m invested on this household, that is what I would like for myself […]
Yearwood and Brooks’ three daughters, whom he shares with ex-wife Sandy Mahl after divorcing her in 2001, have caught by Brooks all through the ordeal, with a supply who lately labored with the singer telling Us on Saturday, October 5, that, “Everybody round him together with Trisha and his daughters consider him to be telling the reality. Many round him assume that is out of character and one thing he would by no means do. Everybody round him is shocked.”
On Tuesday, October 8, it was revealed that Roe’s lawsuit included an alleged screenshot of her textual content message change with Brooks.
“And that vast stick you carry! Roo-sevelt!!” Roe allegedly wrote within the redacted textual content, to which Brooks replied, “I’ll take that nick-name 😂💕 Thanks. I like you 💕❤️💕.”
Roe’s submitting additionally claimed that though Brooks believed he deleted “all the pieces on Ms. Roe’s cellphone,” a few of their alleged texts stay on her cellphone.
