Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood are considering living in Ireland, he says

On November 8, 2024By Littum

Garth Brooks is considering buying a house in Ireland with his wife, Trisha Yearwood, amid sexual assault allegations against him.

The country star on his “Inside Studio G“Facebook Live show at the end of last month opened up about potential plans to buy a home in Europe, which Brooks, 62, attributed to his wife. The conversation was sparked by a video sent in by an Irish fan referring to previous comments he made about living in the country.

“In fact, the Queen is pushing hard for the house in Ireland,” Brooks said. “I think this last time over there, she just fell head over heels in love with the country.”

The “Friends in Low Places” singer recalled playing two weekends of shows in Ireland with Yearwood, 60, in tow. “Everyone was so nice to her,” he said.

USA TODAY has reached out to Yearwood’s rep for comment.

The comments come after Brooks was accused of sexual assault and battery in October by a former hair and makeup artist who alleged he raped her in a Los Angeles hotel room in 2019.

In the lawsuit, filed by a Jane Roe court in California and obtained by USA TODAY, she claimed she was first hired in 1999 as a hair and makeup artist for Yearwood and continued to work for her “over the years.” In 2017, she began doing make-up and hair styling for Brooks. The alleged abuse began two years later.

Brooks has been married to Yearwood since 2005.

Roe recalled several instances of abuse, including one where she was at Brooks’ home to style his hair and do his makeup when he allegedly “walked out of the shower, naked, with an erection and pointing his penis at Ms. Roe.” He continued. then grabbing her hands “and forcing them onto his erect penis,” the suit states.

The lawsuit followed an attempt by Brooks to block the sexual assault allegations from the public via a lawsuit he filed as a John Doe on Sept. 13 in federal court in Mississippi, the same day the country singer announced the conclusion of his residency in Las Vegas. . The filing claimed the sexual assault allegations would “irreparably damage” his “reputation, family, career and livelihood.”

On October 8, Brooks amended his case, identified himself as John Doe, and asked a judge to preemptively declare allegations of sexual misconduct by Jane Roe untrue and award him damages for emotional distress and defamation. In the complaint, Brooks also names the woman who accuses him of sexual assault.

Roe’s attorneys — Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker — condemned Brooks for naming their client in his filing in a statement to USA TODAY at the time.

“Garth Brooks just revealed his true self,” the lawyers said. “With no legal justification, Brooks outed her because he believes the laws don’t apply to him.”

Brooks, who has denied all of Roe’s allegations, called himself “the victim of a shakedown.”

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