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Garth Brooks is considering buying a home in Ireland with his wife Trisha Yearwood amid allegations of sexual assault.

The country star spoke on his Facebook Live show “Inside Studio G” late last month about possible plans to buy a home in Europe, which Brooks, 62, attributed to his wife. The conversation was sparked by a video sent in by an Irish fan in which he referred to previous comments about life in the country.

“In fact, the Queen is extremely committed to the House in Ireland,” Brooks said. “I think she fell head over heels in love with the country the last time she was there.”

The “Friends in Low Places” singer recalled two weekends of concerts in Ireland with Yearwood, 60, in tow. “Everyone was so nice to her,” he said.

USA TODAY has reached out to Yearwood's representative for comment.

The comments come after Brooks was accused of sexual assault and battery in October by a former hair and makeup artist for raping her in a Los Angeles hotel room in 2019.

In the lawsuit, filed in a California court and obtained by USA TODAY, Jane Roe claimed she was first hired as a hair and makeup artist for Yearwood in 1999 and continued to work for them “throughout the years.” . In 2017, she began doing makeup and hairstyling for Brooks. The alleged abuse began two years later.

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Brooks has been married to Yearwood since 2005.

Roe recalled several instances of abuse, including one in which she was at Brooks' home styling his hair and makeup when he allegedly “came out of the shower naked, with an erection and his penis on his wife.” Roe judged”. ” He then grabbed her hands and “forced them onto his erect penis,” the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit followed an attempt by Brooks to keep the sexual assault allegations away from the public through a lawsuit he filed as a John Doe in federal court in Mississippi on September 13, the same day the country singer graduated announced his stay in Las Vegas. The filing argued that the sexual assault allegations would cause “irreparable harm to his reputation, family, career and livelihood.”

On October 8, Brooks changed his case, identifying himself as John Doe and asking a judge to preemptively declare Jane Roe's sexual misconduct allegations untrue and award him damages for emotional distress and defamation. In the complaint, Brooks also names the woman who accuses him of sexual assault.

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Roe's lawyers — Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker — condemned Brooks in a statement to USA TODAY at the time for naming their client in his filing.

“Garth Brooks has just revealed his true self,” the lawyers said. “Without legal justification, Brooks outed her because he believes the laws don’t apply to him.”

Brooks, who has denied all of Roe's allegations, described himself as a “victim of shock.”

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