Garth Brooks’ first wife says the country superstar was a serial cheater
Garth Brook’s cheating past comes to light as a country star fights rape claims.
October 7, 2024, published at 3:30 PM ET
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Brooks’ deception was so widespread that his first wife claimed he would remain missing for “five or six days.”
After explanation Confess’ shady acts of disappearance, Mahl said: “Garth has always been a very sexual person.
“It was his ego that proved he could look outward, point and conquer.”
At one point she told him to stop cheating or she would leave him.
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Mahl added: “I told him my bags were packed, a plane ticket was bought and I was gone.”
The warning worked like Confess remained faithful and the couple spent another nine years together, sharing three daughters, before splitting in 2001 when Mahl received $125 million in divorce settlement.
But Brooks, who dated the current woman Trisha Jaarwoodclaimed that his womanizing actually led to life in his first marriage.
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Brooks with first wife Sandy Mahl whose relationship was marred by his cheating.
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He said, “The wife I got back after my infidelity was fifteen times the wife I had.
“I don’t tell anyone, ‘If you’re not happy, just hang out because your wife is going to be a dynamo for you,’ but I have to be honest with you: That’s what happened to me.”
Describing women as ‘cool and as different as snowflakes’ Confess boasted, “You can be seven or eight women and get seven or eight sides of what a woman is.” Women are neat. They are enticing.”
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Brooks with Mahl in 2009 – two years before they divorced.
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Brooks had met Yearwood early in his first marriage and admitted he had feelings for her.
He said, “It’s strange because I had that feeling like you just met your wife, but I had been married for thirteen months.”
Speaking in his The path I walk In the documentary, Mahl said the former couple “grew apart” and had no options left but to split.
She said: ‘He was away for eight to 10 weeks at a time.
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Brooks met Trisha Yearwood while she was married to her first wife.
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“He would come home, [and] there would be number one parties, or shows, or CMAs, or ACMs, American Music Awards, so it was constant.
“But we both grew apart very, very quickly.”
Brooks says his relationship with his former wife is now stronger than ever.
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Brooks is fighting to save his career after rape allegations.
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He told it American weekly in 2019: “She was phenomenal. (I was) on the road so much (during our marriage), there were things I think she (tried to tell) me that I didn’t hear until this biography. It’s rare that you get to see the heard on the other side.
“I just saw her and I think I hugged her harder than I ever have before, now that I know things I didn’t hear or that she hasn’t said until now.”
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Confess is currently fighting to save his career after being accused of raping a makeup artist in a Los Angeles hotel room in 2019, according to a lawsuit filed in California last Thursday.
The singer has firmly denied the claims which he describes as an attempt to extort him “many millions of dollars” in hush money.
