Garth Brooks compares rape accusations to having ‘loaded gun waved in my face’

Country music mogul Garth Brooks said a rape accusation levied against him is “like having a loaded gun waved in my face.”

In a statement provided to CBS, Brooks said he anonymously filed a lawsuit against his accuser for “extortion and defamation of character.”

“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,” the statement reads. “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. 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,” the “Friends in Low Places” singer continued. “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 also shared a photo from his concert in Las Vegas, Nevada on social media seemingly hinting at the situation.

“If there was ever a night that I really needed this, TONIGHT was that night,” the superstar wrote. “Thank you for my life!!!!! love, g.”

A woman who says she worked as a hair-and-makeup stylist for Garth Brooks claimed in a lawsuit filed Thursday that he raped her in a Los Angeles hotel in 2019.

The woman does not use her name and goes by Jane Roe in the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.

The woman says in the lawsuit she had worked for Brooks’ wife, country singer Trisha Yearwood, since 1999, and had started also working for Brooks in 2017.

She said the assault occurred when she traveled from Nashville to Los Angeles with Brooks, who was performing with soul singer Sam Moore at a Grammy Awards tribute to Moore in October 2019.

Brooks normally traveled with an entourage. But the two were alone on his private jet, and he booked just one hotel suite for both of them, the lawsuit says.

The woman alleges that in the suite, he appeared naked in the doorway to the bedroom and raped her.

The suit says that he then proceeded as though nothing had happened and expected her to do his hair and makeup immediately after.

She alleges that earlier in 2019, when she was at Brooks’ home, he had appeared naked in front of her, grabbed her hands, and put them on his genitals.

The lawsuit says that Brooks filed a preemptive lawsuit in federal court in Mississippi last month, in which both he and the woman are anonymous.

In court filings in that case, the plaintiff, going by John Doe, says the allegations are “wholly untrue,” and he first learned of them in July when she threatened to publicly sue him unless he gave her millions of dollars.

He asks a judge to stop the woman from “intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation, and false light invasion of privacy.”

The woman’s suit also says Brooks exposed himself to her many other times, talked about sexual fantasies with her, and sent her explicit text messages.

She said she was forced to keep working for Brooks because of financial hardship, which he knew about and took advantage of.

An email to the woman’s attorney asking whether she had reported her allegations to police was not immediately answered.