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Now, Garth Brooks is releasing his monologue. The "Friends in Low Places" singer posted a message in which he refuted the accusations of sexual assault and battery made by his former hairstylist and makeup artist in a recent lawsuit. He also accused the woman of extortion.
"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," he said in an interview with E! News on October 3. "It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face."
"Hush money is still hush money, no matter how much of it there is," he went on. That, to me, is admitting to actions that I am incapable of performing—ugly deeds that no human being should ever commit against another."
"Tonight, I want to perform music. Going forward, I want to keep up our good deeds," he continued. "It pains me that these amazing things are now in doubt. I am not the man they have portrayed me as; I trust the system, and I do not fear the truth."
Roe claimed that Brooks had once asked her to accompany him on a work trip to Los Angeles, where he was scheduled to give a Grammy tribute. While there, he allegedly forced her to give consent to a sexual assault in a hotel room he had reserved for the two of them.
"Ms. Roe immediately had a sick feeling in her stomach," according to the filing, "knowing she was trapped in the room alone with Brooks, with no one to help and far away from Nashville."
Along with accusing Brooks—who is parents to three daughters, Taylor, 32, August, 30, and Allie, 28—of sexual assault, Roe also claimed that the Grammy winner frequently showed her his genitalia and discussed his fantasies with her, including his desire to have a threesome with her and his wife, and sent her sexually explicit text messages.
Although this is the first time Brooks has publicly addressed the allegations, this was not his only response to Roe's lawsuit. In a subsequent lawsuit, the singer of "The Dance" refuted all of her claims and, in an effort to preserve his reputation, filed a move to proceed with the case using the pseudonym "John Doe" as the plaintiff.
In a statement to E! News, Brooks stated, "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."
Documents obtained by CNN reveal that Jane Roe filed the filing knowing full well that if she followed through on her threat to "publicly file" her fabricated lawsuit, "she would do substantial, irreparable damage to Plaintiff's well-earned reputation as a decent and caring person, along with the unavoidable damage to his family and the irreparable damage to her career and livelihood."
Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen, and Hayley Baker, Roe's attorneys, retorted that their client would not give up on pursuing justice.
The attorneys said in a statement to NBC News, "We applaud our client's courage in moving forward with her complaint against Garth Brooks." "The complaint filed today shows that there are sexual predators in the corporate world, Hollywood, the rap and rock and roll industries, and the country music industry as well."
