Garth Brooks Gets Real About Raising Daughters After Split From Ex-Wife

Getting honest. Garth Brooks couldn’t adore his daughters some-more — though his large career unequivocally took a fee on him in a progressing days. While compelling his two-part documentary, The Road I’m On, a nation star, 57, non-stop adult about holding a mangle from a song attention in 2001— and fundamentally commencement a whole new life following his divorce from initial mother Sandy Mahl.

“I only pronounced goodbye to music, got divorced, changed behind to Oklahoma and left Nashville,” he pronounced in a new QA in New York, divulgence that Trisha Yearwood helped him a ton during that break. “I was vital with 3 bizarre women that we did not know. They were 8, 6 and 4. And we was about to get a pile-up march in females. … And my best crony showed up.”

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The “Long Neck Bottle” thespian married Mahl, 54, in 1986. The pair, who share daughters, Taylor, 27, August, 25, and Allie, 23, separate in 2000. Shortly after, Brooks began dating Yearwood, 55, whom he met years before — and he’s grateful he had her help.

“It was good, [she] helped me out a lot. She didn’t have children either. So we were kind of blind heading a blind,” a Country Music Hall of Fame member explained. “I’d never wished divorce on anybody, though 3 children and 3 relatives worked unequivocally well, generally given a girls were all tomboys. So they were all during soccer, lane and field, softball. Never ever did one of those kids take a margin where during slightest one primogenitor wasn’t in a stands. … we adore song to death, unequivocally do. But there’s zero like amatory your babies.”

He also common that he had been married to Mahl for 13 months when he initial met Yearwood, 55, in 1988; during a time, he told a friend, “I feel like we only met my wife,” something he knew was weird. He also pronounced he has no regrets since of his 3 pleasing daughters.

“My Taylor wouldn’t be Taylor. Little August, there’s shrewd and afterwards there’s whatever, Aug is! She wouldn’t be that daring cold chick. And afterwards a small Allie, a small dreamer. She wouldn’t be here. They’re a ideal mix of their mom and me with Trisha’s change on them,” a two-time Grammy leader said. “If we’d gotten married then, possibly a career wouldn’t have been what it was in a ’90s or a matrimony wouldn’t have lasted. So we have to trust that things occur when they happen. we feel really propitious right now where I’m at. Even if we did have regrets, we wouldn’t change anything in fear of changing where I’m during right now.”

Brooks’ two-part documentary, The Road I’m On, starts on AE Monday, Dec 2, during 9 p.m. ET.

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