Roe also alleges in the lawsuit Brooks raped her during a work trip to Los Angeles for the Grammy Awards in 2019. According to the filing, “Once in Los Angeles at the hotel, Ms. Roe could not believe that Brooks had booked a hotel suite with one bedroom and she did not have a separate room.”
Upon their arrival at the hotel, Roe’s lawsuit says that Brooks “appeared in the doorway to the bedroom, completely naked” and that she felt “trapped in the room alone with Brooks, with no one to help and far away from Nashville.”
The lawsuit says that the assault was “painful and traumatic” for Roe and that, “She was helpless to move from his grip and terrified at what was happening to her.”
Roe stopped working for Brooks and Yearwood around May 2021, per the suit, and subsequently moved to Mississippi.
Her lawyers allege in the docs that when they contacted Brooks to disclose that she “was prepared to file a complaint in California to hold him accountable for his sexual assaults,” Brooks retaliated and “used the fact that Ms. Roe had dared to speak about the harm he forced on her as an opportunity to inflict even more harm and pain on Ms. Roe.”
“Specifically, while pretending to be in discussions with Ms. Roe to resolve her legal claims against him, on September 13, 2024,” the suit states, “Brooks filed a preemptive abusive Complaint against Ms. Roe under the Declaratory Judgment Act, in the United States District Court For The Southern District of Mississippi, Northern Division, entitled John Doe v. Jane Roe.”
