Garth Brooks faces accusations of rape and sexual assault
Garth Brooks, the country music star, is facing allegations of rape, sexual assault, and battery.
The accusations, according to the Associated Press, come from an unidentified individual who used to do the hair and makeup service of Brooks's wife.
This individual, who is being referred to as "Jane Roe," filed a lawsuit against Brooks on Thursday, and it is in this lawsuit that she made the allegations of rape, sexual assault, and battery.
Brooks, as we will see, has released a statement responding to the lawsuit.
The details
The contents of the lawsuit were first reported on by CNN.
The outlet reports:
The complaint, filed in a state court in California on Thursday and obtained by CNN, states the alleged incidents occurred in 2019. She claims she was once raped by Brooks during a work trip.
CNN goes on to report on specific allegations from the lawsuit, including allegations that contian many lewd details.
CNN, for example, reports:
In her filing, Roe claims that during one alleged incident in 2019, when she was at Brooks’ home for work, he walked out of the shower naked, “grabbed her hands and forced them” onto his genitals, while speaking to her with sexually explicit and vulgar language.
The outlet goes on to detail some of the other allegations as well.
"I do not fear the truth"
Brooks has released a public statement on the matter, in which he provided more details about the situation.
He said:
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. 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.
Brooks went on to reveal how he is handling the situation.
He wrote:
We filed suit against this person nearly a month ago to 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," Brooks concluded.