Garth Brooks You went to great lengths to give Trisha Yearwood a show she'll never forget.
In the country music star's newly released book, “The Anthology Part IV: Going Home,” Brooks said his May 2005 proposal included the country greats Merle Haggard and George Jones at Buck Owens' Crystal Palace in Bakersfield, California.
Brooks wrote in the book that Owens decided to launch his own nightclub with large bronze statues of men in country music. The night was called the “Legends in Bronze” event and among the statues were Haggard, Jones, George Strait, Bob Willis, Willie Cash and Owens himself.
Brooks was heavily involved in the process of creating his statue, and Bill Raines, the artist behind the statue, explained that once completed, Brooks' statue would stand for “hundreds of years” and would not be subject to change. After Brooks was informed that the statue was finished, Reigns asked, “Can you put a wedding ring on it?”
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Reigns gave the country music star a strange look, and Brooks replied, “Because I have a love that would do the same thing.”
“And the woman I would love for hundreds and hundreds of years would be my wife…and she would also marry three little girls.”
In the lead-up to the proposal, Yearwood was in Cincinnati on business, giving him the opportunity to travel to Georgia and pick up her parents, Brooks explained in his book.
“I have Jack and Gwen to myself on the plane, and I am asking for their daughter's hand in marriage. That was in the spring of 2005, and I got their permission. Now I have to ask all three daughters,” Brooks wrote.
Yearwood states at this point in the book that she would “love” to say that she knew her now-husband was up to something, but she “had no idea.”
Now it was time for Brooks to ask his three daughters, Taylor, August and Allie, for permission to marry Yearwood. Brooks shares his children with his first wife, Sandy Malle. They were married from 1986 until their divorce in 2001.
“I ask the girls to get dressed for dinner. ‘Why are we having dinner, Dad?’ And I said, ‘We’re going out tonight and I’ll tell you.’ “They are ten, eight, and six at this point, and we’re having dinner, and we start talking about the future,” Brooks wrote. Or someone: “Dad, are you going around asking us about your marriage to Trisha?” I said: Yes, I am. “And they were all fine.”
“But this conversation goes deeper than that,” I said. She doesn't have children, so if something happens to me, you have to take care of her. So, you three and Trisha are going to get married, and, well, you're going to exchange rings, vows, everything.
Brooks wrote that this conversation with his three young daughters made him very emotional.
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“Then six-year-old Allie put down her fork, looked at me, patted my arm, and said, 'We've got your back, bra strap.' That was it. We've got your back, bra strap.” The conversation is over,” Brooks wrote.
Brooks wrote that he also asked for his ex-wife's blessing before the big proposal.
“If Sandy had said no, it would have affected a lot of things. We would have stopped working because we had to love together as a family,” he said. Fortunately for Yearwood and Brooks, Sandy had no problems in their marriage. In fact, she thought it was “the right move for our family.”
Brooks' friend, Fred Reiser, was the mastermind behind the entire proposal. Reiser made a deal with Haggard that if he attended the event, he could close the show and have Brooks book a private jet for Jones.
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“When they unveiled the statue, I held Miss Yearwood's hand. They had already unveiled Haggard, Jones, Street… I mean that's so wonderful. And I looked at Trisha and pointed to that ring, and it was like everyone was there. But it wasn't There is no one but us.
“The first thing I did was grab her face and start shaking her head from side to side, and I thought, 'Oh, did I misread this?'” Brooks wrote.
Yearwood “I know it scared him to death,” he wrote, “but my first reaction was, ‘No! This couldn't be happening in front of all these people! But yes! Yes! Yes!”
At the end of the night, Brooks wrote that everything “went really well.”
The couple tied the knot in Oklahoma a few months later and Brooks' father was best man at his wedding.
“The woman I would love for hundreds and hundreds of years would be my wife…and she would also marry three little girls,” Brooks concluded.
Since tying the knot, Brooks and Yearwood have dealt with controversy.
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In October, the country music star was accused of sexually assaulting Jane Roe in 2019 during a business trip, according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital. According to documents provided by Jane Roe, the woman was first hired in 1999 to do makeup and hair styling for the company. Brooks' wife, Yearwood. She began working for Brooks in the hair and beauty business in 2017, two years before the alleged incidents took place.
Brooks denied the allegations and amended his complaint against Jane Roe in an October 8 filing obtained by Fox News Digital. The “Much Too Young” singer accused the woman, whose name was mentioned in the filing, of attempted blackmail, defamation, false invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Brooks' “The Anthology Part IV: Going Home” was released on Friday.