Country star Trisha Yearwood has contracted the new COVID-19 coronavirus, her husband Garth Brooks announced on Facebook on Wednesday.
Brooks, 59, and Yearwood, 56, are “currently in quarantine at home after a recent positive Covid test by a member of their team,” after posting “Team Garth” on Wednesday. in the evening.
“Subsequent tests in recent days have shown that Trisha has contracted Covid, while Garth remains negative.”
“Officially,” Brooks adds, “Yearwood is now being diagnosed as ‘about to get out of the tunnel’ now, for which I am extremely grateful.”
The recent winter storms that have covered much of the country have prevented Yearwood and Brooks from being tested for some time.
“Anyone who knows me knows that my world begins and ends with Miss Yearwood, so she and I will go through this together,” Brooks said. “And anyone who knows her knows she’s a fighter and she did everything right, so I know we’re going to get out on the other side of this together.”
Yearwood is “okay so far, but she’s having symptoms,” but Brooks adds that the possible long-term effects on her [voice] I am concerned as a husband and as a fan “and notes that” We are very lucky that he is currently under the greatest care in the best city for the treatment and healing of singers “.
Yearwood and Brooks were friends and musical partners for years before romance; when they first met, they were both married to other people. Following those divorces, they began dating in 2002, and Brooks proposed Yearwood on stage in 2005; The couple married later that year, and Yearwood became the stepmother of Brooks’ three daughters from her previous marriage.
Brooks, a registered Republican, came out again in January when he sang at President Biden’s inauguration. He will also be honored at the Kennedy Center Honors Annual in May.