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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 girl additionally says she was employed to do spouse Trisha Yearwood’s make-up in 1999.
In the authorized doc, the girl alleges Brooks raped her… undressed in her presence… uncovered his genitals and buttocks… and overtly spoke about intercourse and sexual fantasies in quite a few incidents 5 years in the past.
“Brooks elevated the frequency of his sexually charged conversations with Ms. Roe, and this included his repeated remarks about having a threesome together with his spouse during which he implied that Ms. Roe could be the third individual,” the alleged sufferer wrote in her lawsuit.
Jane Roe says she stopped working for Brooks and moved to Mississippi round May 2021.
On Thursday evening, Brooks issued a press release to in response to this horrible allegation.
“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 verify for a lot of tens of millions of {dollars}. It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face,” this message opens.
Perhaps 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 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 practically a month in the past to talk out in opposition to extortion and defamation of character.
“We filed it anonymously for the sake of households on either side.”
Although 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 “mendacity extortionist who supposed on destroying his skilled repute,” and it went on as follows:
“[Her] allegations are usually not true. [She] is properly conscious, nevertheless, of the substantial, irreparable harm such false allegations would do to Plaintiff’s well-earned repute as an honest and caring individual, together with the unavoidable harm to his household and the irreparable harm to his profession and livelihood that may outcome if she made good on her risk to ‘publicly file’ her fabricated lawsuit.
“Indeed, such information little doubt explains why [she] threatened to file go well with by means of a ‘confidential’ demand letter somewhat than merely submitting go well with to redress her alleged (however unfaithful) accidents.”
On October 3, Brooks concluded his reply on this method:
I need to play music tonight. I need 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.
