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Are Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood on the Rocks After He Missed CMT Awards? It Was ‘So Unlike’ Him

Garth Brooks was noticeably absent as wife Trisha Yearwood accepted the June Carter Cash award at the 2024 CMT Awards. Is their marriage on the rocks?

Her husband of 18 years, Garth Brooks, “is not here with me tonight because he’s probably at the bar,” she said with a laugh on the red carpet, referring to his new Nashville honky-tonk, Friends in Low Places. “We’re both very independent,” the “How Do I Live” singer, 59, has said, and “we don’t always get along.” During the pandemic, the superstars, who have been friends for nearly 40 years and married in 2005, worked on some of their issues because they were stuck together in isolation. “Trisha was happy to be at the CMT Awards with her sister, even though it did raise eyebrows and made some people wonder if things were rocky between her and Garth,” says a source, noting that the pair just spent more than a year working closely to build his bar — in front of reality TV cameras.

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