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

• Two days before Garth Brooks was hit with a sexual assault lawsuit, he appeared in love with Trisha Yearwood on Instagram
• Brooks shared a video of him and his wife holding hands as they begin work with Habitat for Humanity
• On Thursday, October 3, the makeup artist accused the country star of sexual assault, which he preemptively denied in a lawsuit filed on September 13.

Two days before he was hit with a sexual assault lawsuit, Garth Brooks shared a photo of himself holding hands with Trisha Yearwood.

On Tuesday, Oct. 1, the country star, 62, shared a back-to-back photo of him and his wife, 60 — who he’s been married to since 2005 — walking toward a Habitat for Humanity construction site, where they worked at honoring his friend Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday.

The couple was in St. Paul, Minnesota for the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter 2024 Workweek Project, building the first 30 of what is expected to be a community of 1,200 homes.

“We show up to get a job done, but what we all leave with is so much more,” Brooks wrote. “Starting construction for the @habitatforhumanity Carter Work project 2024. As they say, home is the key and love never stops! To everyone who built with us, today was a GREAT 1st day!!! love, g & TY #carterworkproject.”

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

“Just working with them, one of the biggest lessons you learn is that it’s okay to argue,” Brooks said. “They would argue about how to build or make something, but it only brought them closer. My favorite thing about becoming Mrs. Yearwood’s partner is the good times, but also going through the bad times together because it makes you one… we have a love that will last beyond this life. I found her in a past life. I’ll find her in the next one.”

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood in Frisco, Texas in May 2023.

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Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood relationship timeline

On Oct. 3, Brooks sued the makeup artist for alleged sexual assault, in a lawsuit filed in California Superior Court – Los Angeles County, obtained by PEOPLE. In a statement obtained by PEOPLE Thursday night, Brooks addressed the allegations and said he is “not afraid of the truth.”

“For the last two months I have been harassed endlessly with threats, lies and tragic stories about what my future would be like if I didn’t write a multi-million dollar check. It was like waving a loaded gun in my face,” he said. “Hush money, no matter how much or how little, is still hush money. To my mind, it means I’m condoning behavior I’m not capable of—ugly acts no man should do to another.” The country star continued, “We filed a lawsuit against this person almost a month ago to speak out against extortion and defamation. We filed it anonymously for the benefit of the families on both sides. I want to play music tonight. I want to continue Our good works go on. Straw my heart, these wonderful things are now at stake, I am not afraid of the truth and I am not the man they have portrayed me to be.”

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The plaintiff, identified as Jane Roe, claims the inappropriate behavior began in 2019 when she was at the “Much Too Young” singer’s home for a styling appointment and found him getting out of the shower naked with an erection and forced her to touch his penis while he asks her to perform a sexual act. Later in 2019, the woman claimed that Brooks physically dominated and raped her while she was working at an event.

While Ms Roe was working for him, she claims she experienced Brooks “regularly changing his clothes” in front of her and “often deliberately” exposing his genitalia and bottom, openly discussing sexual topics in front of her, telling her of his “sexual fantasies” and receiving ” sexually explicit text messages” from him.

Ms. Roe seeks monetary and/or compensatory damages and punitive/exemplary damages.

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

Garth Brooks attends the 51st Annual CMA Awards on November 8, 2017 in Nashville.

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Garth Brooks has been sued by a former make-up artist over allegations of rape and sexual assault

They added: “We are confident that Brooks will be held accountable for his actions and his efforts to silence our client by filing a preemptive lawsuit in Mississippi were nothing more than an act of desperation and an attempt at intimidation. We encourage others who may have been victimized to contact us as no survivors should suffer in silence.”

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

According to the lawsuit filed Sept. 13 in Mississippi federal court and obtained by PEOPLE, Brooks has denied the allegations as a “John Doe.”

In it, Brooks claimed that he had a 15-year employment relationship with Roe as an independent contractor before she moved from Tennessee to Mississippi in 2020. He claimed that when he was unable to accede to Roe’s “demands for paid work and health benefits, she responded false and outrageous accusations of sexual misconduct.”

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

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

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

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