Trisha Yearwood breaks her silence following Garth Brooks assault allegations

Country superstar Trisha Yearwood signaled her continued support for her husband Garth Brooks on Monday after allegations of sexual assault and battery were made against him.

In Yearwood’s first Instagram post since the allegations emerged, she wrote a simple message: “Love each other.” It was accompanied by a picture of the couple dueting on stage and the hashtag #Vegas. Yearwood frequently accompanied 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 suit on Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleging that Brooks, 62, raped her in a Los Angeles hotel room during a business trip in May 2019. In another incident this year, the lawsuit says, he “grabbed her hands and forced her” to press on his genitals after he got out of the shower naked.

The woman, identified only as Jane Roe in court documents, said she 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 his clothes in front of her, sent her sexually explicit text messages and told her he wanted to have a threesome with her and Yearwood.

Brooks has denied the allegations. Last month, he filed his own lawsuit in Mississippi under a pseudonym, accusing the woman of attempted extortion and defamation. In the Sept. 13 filing, he claimed that the woman’s lawyers had demanded “millions of dollars” from him.

In one opinionMs. Brooks’ lawyers called Brooks’ lawsuit a “pre-emptive complaint” and a “blatant attempt to silence and harass 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. Their collaboration in building the venue, “the honky-tonk of their dreams,” was recently documented in a six-part documentary 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 completed a three-year world tour together in 2017.

In one Parade story published October 3rdOn 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.”

“When we got married, we made the decision not to be separated,” 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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