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.