Former employee accuses Garth Brooks of rape, sexual assault, and battery

The country music star Garth Brooks is now facing allegations of sexual assault and rape. 

The Daily Caller reports:

“Jane Roe” filed a lawsuit Thursday in California, accusing country music legend Garth Brooks of rape, sexual assault and battery.

"Jane Roe," of course, is being used because they are protecting the identity of the alleged victim.

First, we will look at the details alleged in the lawsuit. Then, we will look at Brooks's response.

Here is what we know:

The alleged incidents, according to CNN, are said to have taken place in 2019.

The outlet reports:

The complaint, filed in a state court in California on Thursday and obtained by CNN, states the alleged incidents occurred in 2019.  She claims she was once raped by Brooks during a work trip.

Although the identity of the plaintiff is unknown, she is said to have handled the "hair and makeup services" of Brooks's wife. She began doing so, according to the lawsuit, in 2017.

The lawsuit contains many lewd details. CNN, for example, reports:

In her filing, Roe claims that during one alleged incident in 2019, when she was at Brooks’ home for work, he walked out of the shower naked, “grabbed her hands and forced them” onto his genitals, while speaking to her with sexually explicit and vulgar language.

This is one of many alleged incidents.

Brooks responds

Brooks responded to the allegations in a statement that he gave to ABC News on Thursday evening.

In the statement, he said:

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. 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.

Brooks went on to reveal that he has filed a lawsuit against the accuser.

He added:

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. I want to play music tonight. I want to continue our good deeds going forward. It breaks my heart these wonderful things are in question now.

The country music star concluded, " I trust the system, I do not fear the truth, and I am not the man they have painted me to be."