Garth Brooks Pictured Holding Hands with Wife Trisha Yearwood 2 Days Before Being Sued for Claims of Sexual Assault

Mar. 15, 2025

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood in Nashville in October 2022.Photo:Jason Kempin/Getty

Jason Kempin/Getty

Two days prior to being hit with asexual assault lawsuit,Garth Brooksshared a photo holding hands withTrisha Yearwood.

On Tuesday, Oct. 1, the country star, 62, shared a snap that featured the backs of him and his wife, 60 — to whom he’s beenmarried since 2005— walking toward a building site for Habitat for Humanity, where they were working to honor their friendJimmy Carter’s100th birthday.

The pair were in St. Paul, Minnesota for the2024 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Week Project, building the first 30 of what is supposed to be a 1,200-home community.

“We show up to do the work, but what we all leave with is SO much more,” Brooks wrote. “Kicking off the build for@habitatforhumanityCarter Work project 2024. As they say, Home is the key and love never quits! To everyone building with us, today was a GREAT Day 1!!! love, g & TY#carterworkproject.”

The “Friends in Low Places” artist reflected on what he learned about marriage from working with Jimmy and his late wife Rosalynn, whodied last November.

“Just working with them, one of the greatest lessons you learned was that it’s OK to argue,” said Brooks. “They would argue about how to build or do something, but it just brought them closer. So my favorite thing about getting to be Ms. Yearwood’s partner is the good times, but also going through the bad times together because that makes you one… we have a love that’s going to last beyond this lifetime. I found her in the last life. I’ll find her in the next one.”

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood in Frisco, Texas in May 2023.SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images

SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images

“For the last two months, I have been hassled to no end with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future would be if I did not write a check for many millions of dollars. It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face,” he said. “Hush money, no matter how much or how little, is still hush money. In my mind, that means I am admitting to behavior I am incapable of—ugly acts no human should ever do to another.“The country star continued, “Wefiled suit against this person nearly a month agoto speak out against extortion and defamation of character. We filed it anonymously for the sake of families on both sides. I want to play music tonight. I want to continue our good deeds going forward. It breaks my heart these wonderful things are in question now. I trust the system, I do not fear the truth, and I am not the man they have painted me to be.”

While Ms. Roe was working for him, she claims she experienced Brooks “regularly changing his clothing” in front of her and “often purposefully” exposing his genitals and buttocks, openly talking about sexual subjects in front of her, telling her his “sexual fantasies” and receiving “sexually explicit text messages” from him.

Ms. Roe is seeking monetary and/or compensatory damages and punitive damages/exemplary damages.

“We applaud our client’s courage in moving forward with her complaint against Garth Brooks,” said Roe’s attorneys Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker (HB Advocates PLLC) in a statement. “The complaint filed today demonstrates that sexual predators exist not only in corporate America, Hollywood and in the rap and rock and roll industries but also in the world of country music.”

Garth Brooks attends the 51st annual CMA Awards on Nov. 8, 2017 in Nashville.Michael Loccisano/Getty

Michael Loccisano/Getty

They added: “We are confident that Brooks will be held accountable for his actions and his efforts to silence our client through the filing of a preemptive complaint in Mississippi was nothing other than an act of desperation and attempted intimidation. We encourage others who may have been victimized to contact us as no survivor should suffer in silence.”

The complaint further asserts that Brooks filed a preemptive lawsuit against Roe, denying Roe’s claims and accusing her of defaming Brooks.

In it, Brooks claimed that he had a 15-year working relationship with Roe as an independent contractor before she relocated from Tennessee to Mississippi in 2020. He alleged that when he could not agree to Roe’s “demands for salaried employment and medical benefits, she responded with false and outrageous allegations of sexual misconduct.”

The “That Summer” artist claimed that he and his colleagues received a “confidential demand letter” from Roe’s attorneys on July 17 that included allegations of “sexual grooming, creation of a sexually hostile work environment, unwanted sexual touching and sexual assault.” Roe also claimed that Brooks “planned to hire someone to murder her.”

Brooks is seeking a declaratory judgment that Roe’s allegations against him of sexual misconduct are false, compensatory damages, punitive damages and preliminary and permanent injunctive relief.

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go torainn.org.

source: people.com