Country music superstar Trisha Yearwood on Monday signaled her ongoing support of her husband, Garth Brooks, in the wake of sexual assault and battery allegations made against him.
In Yearwood’s first Instagram post since the allegations were made public, she wrote a simple message: “Love One Another.” It was accompanied by a picture of the couple dueting on stage and the hashtag #Vegas. Yearwood has frequently joined Brooks during his sold-out Garth Brooks/Plus One residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
A hair and makeup artist filed a lawsuit Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleging that Brooks, 62, raped her in a Los Angeles hotel room during a work trip in May 2019. In a separate incident that year, the lawsuit alleges, he “grabbed her hands and forced them” onto his genitals after he walked out of a shower naked.
The woman, identified only as Jane Roe in the court documents, said she had worked for Yearwood for years before Brooks took her on as a client in 2017.
According to the lawsuit, Brooks exposed his genitals to the woman, changed clothes in front of her, sent her sexually explicit texts and told her that he wanted to have a threesome with her and Yearwood.
Brooks has denied the allegations. Last month, he filed his own lawsuit under a pseudonym in Mississippi, accusing the woman of attempted extortion and defamation. He claimed in the Sept. 13 filing that the woman’s lawyers demanded “millions of dollars” from him.
In a statement, the woman’s attorneys called Brooks’ lawsuit a “preemptive complaint” and an “obvious attempt at silencing and bullying” her.
Yearwood, 60, has been married to Brooks since December 2005. They are co-owners of Friends in Low Places, a bar in Nashville, Tennessee, named after Brooks’ 1990 hit song. Their collaboration to build the venue, “the honky-tonk of their dreams,” was documented in a recent six-part docuseries on Amazon Prime.
Musically, Yearwood and Brooks worked together for years before becoming a couple after Brooks and his first wife divorced. They won a Grammy together, and in 2017 wrapped up a three-year world tour together.
In a Parade story published Oct. 3, the same day the sexual assault lawsuit was filed, Brooks called his relationship with Yearwood the “greatest love story in the history of the planet.”
Yearwood told Parade that she and Brooks “do everything together.”
“We made a decision when we got married to not be apart,” she said. “We tour together; we do everything together.”
HuffPost reached out to representatives for Brooks and Yearwood but did not immediately receive a response.
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