Garth Brooks quietly reschedules Jimmy Kimmel concert after abrupt cancellation as country singer faces rape accusations

GARTH Brooks has quietly rescheduled his performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! just days after the show’s abrupt cancellation as the country singer faces rape accusations. 

Despite warning fans there would be “no rescheduling” of the canceled concert, a change was made last minute for tonight’s show to proceed, The U.S. Sun can exclusively reveal. 

Just a few days after Garth’s scheduled performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! was canceled with no explanation, ticket holders were informed that the show will indeed go on. 

“The Garth Brooks Outdoor Mini-Concert on Monday, November 25th is moving back outside as originally scheduled,” audience company 1iota told fans over the weekend. 

Other than the internal memo to fans, no announcements have been made on social media announcing the show is back on.

The message came as a surprise as just days before, hopeful attendees were told the show was not happening, despite little warning and no explanation as to why. 

They were also adamant that the show would not be rebooked for a further date - despite an apparent change of heart just a couple of days later. 

Tickets were available through the live audience company, 1iota, for weeks as they proudly advertised the country star's appearance.

Fans were granted tickets to come see the show at Jimmy’s Hollywood, CA studio but last week, the event was called off.

“Unfortunately, the Garth Brooks Outdoor Mini-Concert at Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday, 11/25 has been canceled and will no longer proceed as scheduled,” ticket holders were told.

The e-mail added: “Television production decisions can fluctuate due to a variety of reasons. 

“We hate delivering disappointing news, and we hope you will join us in the future for another exciting fan experience. 

“Unfortunately, in the world of television, these things sometimes happen. This event will not be rescheduled.” 

 The U.S. Sun reached out to Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Garth, 62, for comment. 

Garth has maintained a low profile since he was accused in a lawsuit of raping his makeup artist.

According to the lawsuit filed in early October, the alleged victim said that she started working for Garth back in 2017 after having worked for his wife, country icon Trisha Yearwood, since 1999. 

She alleged that the assault took place when she and Garth traveled together from his hometown of Nashville to Los Angeles while he performed with soul singer Sam Moore at a Grammy Awards tribute in October 2019.

The lawsuit claimed the pair were alone on his private jet for the trip, and he booked just one hotel suite for both of them. 

She alleges that Brooks appeared naked in the doorway of the suite's bedroom and raped her.

The alleged victim then claimed after, he proceeded as though nothing had happened and expected her to do his hair and makeup as normal.

In response to the allegations, Garth said in a statement that he is "not the man they have painted me to be.”

“For the last two months, I have been hassled to no end with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future would be if I did not write a check for many millions of dollars. 

"It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face,” he said. 

On the same day the accuser filed the lawsuit, Garth, 62, played a show at his Las Vegas residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace on October 4th. 

“If there was ever a night that I really needed this, TONIGHT was that night! 

“Thank you for my life!!!!! love, G,” the Friends in Low Places crooner wrote on Instagram with a picture from the concert. 

Garth allegedly filed a preemptive lawsuit in federal court in Mississippi in September in which both he and the woman were anonymous.

In that suit, obtained by The U.S. Sun, Garth, apparently proceeding under the pseudonym John Doe, said the allegations are “wholly untrue.”

He then accused the alleged victim of blackmail and extortion and claimed this was an “intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation, and false light invasion of privacy.”

In early November, Garth asked a U.S. District Judge to dismiss the accuser’s claims and direct her to re-file the lawsuit in a federal court.