Trisha Yearwood will return to TV screens on Tuesday to host a Christmas special about husband Garth Brooks’ sexual assault case.

The 60-year-old country singer, who married Brooks, 62, in 2005, will return to co-host the CMA Country Christmas 2024 special with Amy Grant, 64, on ABC.

The pair will sing Grant’s song Sing Your Praise to the Lord and Tom Stacks’ Santa Claus Is Coming to Town together.

Yearwood will also perform a “fun and festive Christmas medley,” while Grant will sing “Tennessee Christmas.”

There will also be performances by King & Country and Carin León (O Come, O Come Emmanuel), Cody Johnson (White Christmas and I’ll Be Home for Christmas), Ashley McBryde and Brittney Spencer (Man with the Bag) and Jon Pardi (400 HP Sleigh) and CeCe Winans (Joy to the World.)

This comes as Brooks continues his legal battle with a former employee who accused him of sexually abusing her in a lawsuit filed in October.

Last month, Brooks filed paperwork to have his case moved to federal court.

According to People, the country superstar filed paperwork on November 1 to move his lawsuit against the woman, who originally filed as anonymous “Jane Roe,” from California Superior Court to federal court.

According to documents obtained by the publication, Brooks’ attorneys requested the transfer because his accuser was seeking more than $75,000 in damages, which would bring the amount into the range that can be covered in federal courts.

The singer, who has strongly denied the woman’s allegations, previously claimed he was a “victim of a raid” and accused the plaintiff of trying to “blackmail” him in legal documents.

Brooks was previously so upset that his name was revealed by Roe’s lawyers that he refiled his original complaint last month, listing her full name.

The singer filed an anonymous pre-emptive countersuit in federal court in Mississippi in September, but his accuser finally filed her lawsuit in California on October 3rd.

In his filing, he said the lawsuit was filed after he received a “letter of demand” from Roe’s attorney.

In her lawsuit, the anonymous woman accused Brooks of promoting a sexually hostile workplace before the alleged rape in 2019.

She claimed he “took advantage” of the financial difficulties she was suffering around 2019 by asking her for sexual favors.

Roe accused Brooks of once emerging from the shower naked “with an erection” that he forced her to touch. He allegedly grabbed her hand and told her that he had dreamed about that moment and wanted her to perform a sex act on him.

In a filing from early October, she included screenshots of a sexually explicit text message conversation she allegedly had with Brooks.

She claimed things escalated in May 2019 when he asked her to travel with him to Los Angeles for a tribute to Sam Moore at the Grammy Awards. She claimed he booked a one-bedroom hotel suite and refused to give her her own room.

She accused Brooks of brutally raping her during the trip before sending her on her explicit text messages and encouraged her to sext him in return.

The woman also claimed he bragged about “fucking multiple women in every corner of a hotel room,” “white, black, brown or whatever…on every surface.”

She said Brooks repeatedly discussed the possibility of a threesome with Yearwood and Roe, and he allegedly exposed himself to her and groped her body, including her breasts, multiple times, the lawsuit says.

Notably, Roe believed that Yearwood had “overheard his proposal to have a threesome on at least one occasion,” and she said his wife was present at a particularly salacious conversation in which Brooks talked about inventing a shampoo bottle that doubled as Dildo could serve.

Roe claimed that the conversation made her so uncomfortable that she didn’t participate, which upset Brooks so much that he allegedly “slammed his fists on the kitchen counter in such frustration that objects on the counter moved and he leaned forward and spoke threateningly to Mrs. Roe.’

Roe’s legal team accused Brooks of pretending to negotiate a settlement even though he was using her sexual assault complaint to file his own pre-emptive lawsuit.

In the country superstar’s lawsuit, he claimed that Roe ran into financial difficulties after moving to Mississippi.

He claimed that she asked him for financial assistance, which he allegedly provided, but Brooks said that the woman’s “demands for financial assistance only increased, so that the defendant eventually asked the plaintiff for paid employment and medical benefits.” have”.

Brooks refused, claiming she responded with false and outrageous claims of sexual misconduct that she claimed happened years ago.

His lawsuits say that on July 17, an attorney representing Roe sent Brooks a “letter of demand alleging a range of sexual misconduct … ranging from allegations of sexual grooming to creating a sexually hostile work environment.” extends to unwanted sexual touching and sexual assault.

In his lawsuit, Brooks claimed Roe also accused her of believing he was “planning to hire someone to murder her.” This allegation was not addressed in Roe’s own lawsuit.

Brooks claimed the demand letter was the first he had heard of the allegations against him. He stated that the letter threatened to “publicly file” a civil lawsuit – a draft of which was attached – unless he “agrees to pay … millions of dollars.”

“The letter referred to various celebrity sexual misconduct lawsuits in which jury awards totaled millions of dollars,” his lawsuit states.

In a follow-up letter dated August 23, 2024, Brooks’ filing states that Roe has again “offered to refrain from publicly filing her false and defamatory lawsuit… in exchange for a multimillion-dollar payment.”

He claimed: “She threatened that if (Brooks) did not comply with this demand, he would face exposure to the tune of many millions of dollars ‘based on (his) net worth’.”

As the Recording Industry Association of America’s top solo artist in history, having sold nearly 150 million albums, the “Friends in Low Places” singer has an estimated net worth between $300 million and $350 million.

At one point he was the highest-paid celebrity in the world. Between June 2017 and June 2018, he earned $45 million. During the same period in 2019 – the year Roe accused him of raping her – he earned $25 million.

Yearwood’s own fortune puts their net worth as a couple at around $400 million. Yearwood and Brooks have been married for 19 years and have homes in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as well as Nashville, Tennessee and Malibu, California.

Brooks broke his silence on Oct. 3, just hours after forcefully denying rape and assault allegations made by the makeup artist, whom he has known for more than 20 years.

Brooks shared an update on Instagram after his show at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, writing to fans that he “really needed this.”

He uploaded a photo of the huge crowd cheering him on and wrote: “If there was ever a night I really needed this, TONIGHT was that night!” Thank you for my life!!!!Love, g .’