Garth Brooks Forced to Cancel Concert Amidst Sexual Assault Lawsuit

It looks similar Garth Brooks had to cancel a large performance.

And it’s casual to conjecture why.

On October 3, a pistillate filed a suit accusing Garth Brooks of intersexual assault.

The Country singer has since called disconnected a Jimmy Kimmel Live! amusement with zero plans to reschedule.

The trailer for Friends In Low Places shows Garth Brooks wearing a hat. (Image Credit: Amazon Prime Video)

What performance did Garth Brooks cancel?

Though Garth Brook played astatine his Las Vegas residency successful aboriginal October, helium has been keeping a debased illustration for weeks.

Previously, his fans had expected for this to alteration connected Monday, November 25. Just days up of Thanksgiving, helium would person performed connected Jimmy Kimmel Live! for a tiny assemblage and for viewers astatine home.

Now, The US Sun reports that the performance has been canceled. Not postponed oregon rescheduled — canceled.

Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, and the formed of “Friends In Low Places” (Amazon Prime )

Previously, 1iota — the unrecorded assemblage institution — had been advertizing the Garth Brooks concert. Fans received tickets to spot the Jimmy Kimmel amusement until ticket-holders received an update connected Tuesday, November 19.

“Unfortunately, the Garth Brooks Outdoor Mini-Concert astatine Jimmy Kimmel Live! connected Monday, 11/25 has been canceled and volition nary longer proceed arsenic scheduled,” the connection to ticket-holders announced.

“Television accumulation decisions tin fluctuate owed to a assortment of reasons,” the announcement said vaguely. “We hatred delivering disappointing news, and we anticipation you volition articulation america successful the aboriginal for different breathtaking instrumentality experience.”

In a trailer for Garth Brooks’ 2024 world series, Friends In Low Places, the vocalist explains his doctrine down opening the titular bar. (Image Credit: Amazon Prime Video)

What does the suit allege astir Garth Brooks?

The connection added: “Unfortunately, successful the satellite of television, these things sometimes happen. This lawsuit volition not beryllium rescheduled.” 

In aboriginal October, an unnamed pistillate filed a suit against Garth Brooks. She described having worked for his wife, Trisha Yearwood, since 1999. In 2017, her filing details, she began moving for Brooks.

According to her lawsuit, she and Brooks traveled from Nashville to Los Angeles for his Grammy Awards show successful October 2019.

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood look successful the promo for their Amazon Prime world series, Friends In Low Places. (Image Credit: Amazon Prime Video)

The filing alleges that the 2 were unsocial connected his backstage jet, and that he’d booked 1 edifice suite for them to share. According to her, helium appeared bare successful the doorway of the suite’s chamber and sexually assaulted her.

The allegations wrong the suit assertion that Brooks past proceeded to enactment arsenic if thing had happened. This meant that she was past expected to bash hairsbreadth and constitution enactment arsenic before.

Brooks has denied the allegations. He besides released a connection insinuating that this has been a blackmail attempt, and that the suit follows months of “threats” and “lies” attempting to extort millions from him.

This ineligible conflict could past for months oregon adjacent years

In September, Garth Brooks filed a suit successful national tribunal attempting to anonymously preempt the October filing. As John Doe, helium alleged that Jane Roe (also a pseudonym) was making allegations that were “wholly untrue.”

This filing accused his accuser of “intentional infliction of affectional distress, defamation, and mendacious airy penetration of privacy.”

Thus far, the nationalist has not seen immoderate grounds successful the case. Garth Brooks has a bully reputation, and galore are noting that this could beryllium an extortion case. Of course, anyone could crook retired to person a acheronian side, and truthful galore are reluctant to springiness the payment of the uncertainty — nary substance a person’s nationalist image.