Garth Brooks is a man in love and he's telling the world.
In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres on the Friday the country superstar talked at length about his marriage of eight years to Trisha Yearwood.
"I've got to tell you, I never knew it could be like this," Brooks said of their marriage. "I never knew that everyday you could wake up and feel like this. And I have God and I have Ms. Yearwood to thank for this."
The "Wrapped Up In You" singer said they were married to other people when they first met back in 1987. The couple met through songwriter Kent Blazy who thought the pair would get along and Brooks confessed that there was an immediate attraction.
"When she left, he goes, 'What did you think?' I said, 'Well, it's strange, because I felt that feeling like when you just meet your wife, but I've been married for 13 months,'" Brooks said. "You were married in front of God and your family and everything.... So you work. And then comes that time where you're looking at the rest of your life going, 'How do you want to live it?'"
Brooks and his wife went on to have three children before divorcing in 2000. In 2000, Yearwood was married twice before to Chris Latham and Robert Reynolds. The former friends finally found themselves suddenly single at the same time, and Brooks said the connection turned romantic.
"This was somebody I always enjoyed being around. And we had a lot more in common than I ever dreamed we did. And so we started seeing each other after the divorce," Brooks told DeGeneres. "We'd known each other music-wise, but we got to see each other as people. And I've got to tell you, if you like her and don't know her, you'll love her. If you love her and don't know her, you'll worship her. She's the real deal."
Brooks also bragged about his wife's many talents, which include a music career, a Food Network cooking show, and three cookbooks.
"I'm part of the working wives club," he joked. "I lay out at the pool with the other husbands.
Brook called his wife the "bomb" and said she was born to do it all including sing,
"Make no mistake Ms. Yearwood was born to sing," Brooks said. "That's just what she does...I'll put her in the top five female voices of all time. She's that good."
