After a tough few years for herself and her family, former ‘Alaskan Bush People’ star Rain Brown returned to social media last week to share some happy news with followers. In a nearly 14-minute TikTok, the 23-year-old announced, “I am currently six-and-a-half months pregnant, six months sober and nine months clean.”
@theoneandonlyrainbrown hey everybody just wanted to introduce you to my new channel and give yall a life update, it’s no secret ive been struggling in the past few years but im here to tell you that recovery IS possible, for with God all things are possible. if you are struggling and you dont know where to turn, turn to the Father and he will make your paths straight, I hope yall enjoy the video, please remember to be kind, and remember, God and Jesus love you very much. God bless yall. #staystrong #stayhappy #Godisgood #soberliving #momanddaughter
In the video, Rain admitted (after denying it for over a year) that she had been using drugs.
She also talked about the multiple challenges and tragedies she’s dealt with that resulted in her substance abuse issues, including the death of her father Billy in 2021 and her oldest brother Matt’s death last month. She credits her brother’s passing and her pregnancy with pushing her to get sober.
“[M]y daughter has a lot to do with the fact that I got clean and sober, but also the passing of my brother Matthew, RIP bro-ski. The passing of my brother Matthew really kind of like woke me up to what I was doing and the road that I was on, because I was on the same road that he was,” she said.
“He struggled with mental health and addiction for a long time, and that’s something that I’ve struggled with for a long time… I have also struggled with, you know, thoughts that I would be better off gone.
“I really wanted this video to be more about, less about me and more about awareness for other people, uh, that are going through the same things that I struggled with and the things that my brother struggled with,” Rain continued, choking up as she spoke. “It’s very hard for me to talk about him…but I will say that he’s in a better place and he’s not hurting anymore.
In the video, Rain admitted to using drugs and alcohol to cope for nearly five years.
“It was quite difficult for me to even admit that I wasn’t clean and sober,” she shared. “Obviously, people could tell something was up. I had been drinking every day since my dad died, and I, you know, had been using pretty much every day since he passed, and it just really was a lot of grief.”
Rain also admitted that hanging out with people who had a “bad influence” on her also contributed to her drug use.
Rain shared that she has since split with her husband (and now baby daddy) Josiah Lorton, who was one of those bad influences.
Last year, the pair was accused of stealing $170,000 in cash, guns, wine and gold from Josiah’s uncle. While facing those charges, Rain’s brother Noah and former sister-in-law Rhain also unsuccessfully sought a restraining order against her. Noah additionally accused Rain and Josiah of providing drugs to their mother Ami, which necessitated a welfare check.
At the time, Rain ranted against her brother and his accusations on TikTok, saying, “I’m absolutely f**king sick, and absolutely f**king tired of people acting like my husband and I are a bunch of meth addicts, that we are thieves and f**king running around lying and all this and that, because of s**t that my brother Noah happens to say. He’s a terrible f**king person and he lies about us for God knows what f**king reason.”
The siblings have since reconciled, appearing together in a video on Noah’s TikTok channel.
Despite announcing in January 2025 that she and Josiah had wed, Rain shared in last week’s TikTok that the now-former couple had not actually been married.
“I won’t be talking about Josiah in this video,” she said. “We have separated we were never legally married so it makes things a little easier, but we have decided to be friends and co-parent, um, similar to by brother Bear and my sister Raiven, we actually draw a lot of inspiration off of them, shout out to them.”
Bear and Raiven share three children and announced their separation last spring.
Rain declined to provide many details about how Josiah is doing.
“[W]e just decided that it would be best, um, to just take some time, you know, obviously I don’t know what will happen in the future, uh, I still have a lot of love for Josiah, um, but I just don’t really thing we’re super-compatible as a couple as of now,” she said. “I won’t talk about what he’s doing or where he is, that’s his business to talk about if he chooses to I can only talk about what I’m doing, where I am and where I’ve been, so with that I hope that you guys will be kind to him still and recognize that we were people too because there was quite a lot of cyberbullying going on when I decided to take a break from social media.”
Rain did want to talk quite a bit about her baby and the work she’s been doing on herself since finding out she was pregnant.
“[M]y daughter, I’m having a girl, I know you guys have seen it on everybody else’s social media, but, uh, I haven’t really gotten a chance to talk about it, I’m having a girl and her name is Amithyst Grace, after my mom Ami,” she said.
“She is absolutely the best thing that has ever happened to me, she saved me quite literally saved me, saved my life, and, um, [shows ultrasounds], so that’s her, my little angel face, look at her little face.
“Anyway, she’s precious, she’s my everything, and I really decided to get clean and sober for her because the type of person that I was ever since my daddy passed was not a very good person,” Rain continued.
“I really lost myself and I didn’t even want to be in reality, I had two major mental breakdowns, uh, in the last five years and I have had multiple stays at psychiatric hospitals and, um, I’ve even been to jail, nothing that I did on that one can’t really talk about it, but, uh, someday I will.”
Rain also credited her family for their support.
“I’m just trying to focus on my daughter and giving her the best possible life she can have,” she said. “I want her to be happy, healthy, and have a clean and sober mom, and that is the most important thing to me is that she still has her parents and her whole family, and my family has been more than supportive of my sobriety journey, you know, I mean, they all have gone above and beyond, and I just love them a lot so I wanted to give them a shout out.”
Though she turned comments for the video off, Rain shared she has received positive feedback and encouragement for followers, and posted to TikTok over the weekend to show her appreciation.
(Photos: Instagram; TikTok)
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So oficially her brother Gabe is the only one who is still with his wife (he has always been my fave) and seems like the only one who has his life together. Living in the wilderness didn’t do any of them a favor.
Amithyst Grace is a beautiful name. It’s amazing how much that little picture looks like Ami. I hope Rain can keep her life together for her baby girl.
Good for her, I hope she stays on the right track for both herself and her baby and finds happiness.
I’m glad she’s sober, clean, and truly happy. I just wish people would stop bringing children into the world when they aren’t equipped to raise them. Kids deserve stability, not a roll of the dice that their parents will care for them and do it soberly.