Trisha Yearwood is celebrating her husband’s birthday.
On Friday, Feb. 7, the “She’s in Love with the Boy” singer posted a close-up image of her and Garth Brooks on Instagram to commemorate his 63rd birthday. “For my without end duet accomplice…Glad Birthday, Honey. xo,” Yearwood, 60, wrote.
The couple met in 1987 and obtained married in 2005. They share three daughters.
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Yearwood’s birthday tribute comes as Brooks faces a lawsuit from his former make-up artist who claims that Brooks raped and sexually assaulted her. The make-up artist, who filed in October 2024 as Jane Roe, allegedly started working for Brooks in 2017 and claims she had labored for Yearwood since 1999.
She claims that the inappropriate habits involving the nation singer began in 2019, which included Brooks allegedly exposing himself, sending sexually specific textual content messages and altering clothes in entrance of her.
Brooks has denied the claims made in opposition to him, alleging extortion from the accuser.
“For the final two months, I’ve been hassled to no finish with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future could be if I didn’t write a examine for a lot of thousands and thousands of {dollars},” Brooks mentioned in a press release to PEOPLE. “It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face.”
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“Hush cash, regardless of how a lot or how little, continues to be hush cash. In my thoughts, which means I’m admitting to habits I’m incapable of—ugly acts no human ought to ever do to a different,” the assertion continued.
“We filed go well with in opposition to this particular person almost a month in the past to talk out in opposition to extortion and defamation of character. We filed it anonymously for the sake of households on each side.”
“I need to play music tonight,” Brooks concluded. “I need to proceed our good deeds going ahead. It breaks my coronary heart these fantastic issues are in query now. I belief the system, I don’t worry the reality, and I’m not the person they’ve painted me to be.”
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Most not too long ago, Yearwood and Brooks carried out collectively at Jimmy Carter’s funeral in January, singing “Think about” by John Lennon on the finish of the service.
The couple, who’re longtime associates of the Carters, beforehand carried out at Rosalynn Carter’s funeral in 2023.
In the event you or somebody you understand has been sexually assaulted, please contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.
