Garth Brooks was shaken up when his wife Trisha's friend accused him of committing rape.
Garth Brooks, often known as "Mr. Nice Guy" in country music, is the subject of a stunning lawsuit filed by his wife Trisha Yearwood's friend and makeup artist, GLOBE Magazine reported. The lawsuit accuses the superstar singer of committing rape. Brooks is battling for his personal and professional life.
In a series of shocking allegations, the woman, whose name is being concealed, asserts that the cowboy king, who is 62 years old and has been married to the singer Yearwood, who is 60 years old, since 2005, sexually assaulted her in a hotel room in California five years ago after harassing her for sexual activity for more than three years.
Brooks claimed that the woman's allegations, which she claims occurred during the time that she worked for him from 2017 to 2020, were an outrageous effort at extortion. He further insisted that the woman's allegations were "behavior I am incapable of."
Now the battle lines are being formed in Nashville as a lady identified as Jane Roe in the 27-page lawsuit filed in a court in Los Angeles further accuses Brooks of attempting to stifle the truth by seeking a judicial gag order against her before filing the lawsuit!
All of these incidents took place in 2019, according to Roe's lawsuit, which states that the actor from “Friends in Low Places” sexually assaulted her, exposed himself, openly discussed sexuality and his dreams, changed clothes in front of her, and sent sexually graphic text messages, PEOPLE Magazine reported.
"Brooks seized what he saw as an opportunity to subject a female employee to a side of Brooks he conceals from the public," her suit claimed. "This side of Brooks believes he is entitled to sexual gratification when he wants it, and using a female employee to get it, is fair game."
In May 2019, Roe and Brooks traveled alone on his private plane to record a Grammys tribute to “Soul Man” singer Sam Moore. She was surprised that “That Summer” singer Garth checked them into the same one-bedroom hotel suite. Brooks and Roe were planning to record the tribute.
In a later incident, she asserts that he stripped her "completely naked," displayed his muscles by flexing them, and raped her in such a violent manner that she experienced pain in her neck and back.
Roe insists she "could not escape the physical domination" of the burly, 6-foot, 200-plus-pound former college javelin thrower, and the assault "was painful and traumatic."
"When Brooks was finished... with cold disregard for Ms. Roe...it was business as usual," her suit claims, as per CNN. "Ms. Roe worked quickly to style his hair and do his makeup for the event so he was on time."
Following that incident, she asserts that "Brooks increased the frequency of saying his sexual fantasies about her aloud, along with his physical gropings of her breasts while she was doing his hair and makeup."
According to Roe, Brooks made another attempt to rape her in October 2019, but he was unable to complete the act because he had to depart for an appointment. In addition to this, she asserts that Brooks boasted about having different racial women in hotel rooms and that he desired to have "a threesome" with Yearwood, whom she believes overheard his remarks.
Brooks allegedly made a joke to Roe in front of Yearwood in May of 2020 about "inventing a shampoo bottle that would double as a dildo." Roe claims that Brooks made this comment. Later, she claims that she sent him a text message stating that his comments made her feel uneasy.
Roe claims she also texted him she was upset after learning the country king had told Yearwood she'd seen him naked, and he replied she was "overthinking" the matter.
She claims that when she later tried to get Brooks to stop harassing her for sex, he told her that they should "just hope that nobody ever finds out and just love one another and be friends." She claims that he said this to her. Roe said she left her position with Brooks and relocated to Mississippi in May 2021.
Brooks had previously filed a lawsuit against Roe, claiming him of threatening to go public with "lies, and tragic tales of what my future would be if I did not write a check for many millions of dollars." Yearwood has not commented on the allegations, but Brooks has filed a complaint against Roe from an anonymous source.
According to him, he is not going to pay "hush money" because "that means I am admitting to behavior I am incapable of - ugly acts that no human should ever do to another."
Business Times has reached out to Garth Brooks for comments.
