He said: “What really surprised me was Sandy, the girls’ mom. She was phenomenal.
“[I was] gone so much on the road [during our marriage], there were things I guess she was [trying to tell] me that I didn’t hear until this biography.
“It’s rare you get to hear the other side. I just saw her and I think I hugged her harder than I ever have now that I know things that either I didn’t hear or that she didn’t say until now.”
Allie Brooks, Garth's youngest daughter (Image: Getty)
While it might be he was still in love with Sandy in the early days, another person had walked into his life early in Garth’s first marriage who would turn out to be incredibly important in his life: Trisha Yearwood.