Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent

Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

Country star Kane Brown says he had to be rescued after getting lost on his own property

Brown says he and his family had just moved to the 30-acre home in Nashville

Clémence Michallon
New York City
Tuesday 11 August 2020 11:47 EDT
Comments
Kane Brown at the American Music Awards on 24 November 2019 in Los Angeles, California.
Kane Brown at the American Music Awards on 24 November 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for dcp)

Your support helps us to tell the story

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.

Your support makes all the difference.

Country star Kane Brown says he once had to be rescued after getting lost on his own property.

The singer recently shared the anecdote during an interview with Extra.

Brown, who is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife Katelyn Jae and their eight-month-old daughter Kingsley Rose , says he had just moved to a new home at the time of the incident.

“We got lost for seven hours,” he told Extra. “We have 30 acres, and it’s all woods. And we made our own trail. And it started raining, and it started getting dark, and we started running out of gas, and we couldn’t find our trail back.”

The property, he says, is located around several cliffs, “so everywhere we tried to go and we thought we were getting somewhere, we’d run into a drop-off”.

“We ended up having to call the cops, and walking down,” he added.

He later addressed the incident in a Facebook post, explaining that he owns 30 out of 3,000 acres around the property.

“I told my wife I wanted to go check out the property I’ll be 30 minutes,” he wrote, adding that he headed out in shorts and a T-shirt, accompanied by a friend and the friend’s girlfriend.

“Thirty minutes turned into three hours,” he added, stating that it then started raining, that the temperature dropped, and that attempts to use a GPS were unsuccessful.

As a “last resort”, Brown said he called a fellow artist who lives in the area, but after that friend found him with another pal, the group of five got lost again.

Kane Brown poses with his award after winning Favorite Male Artist Country on 24 November 2019 in Los Angeles, California.
Kane Brown poses with his award after winning Favorite Male Artist Country on 24 November 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Rich Fury/Getty Images)

“He has four other friends riding around ...and they start getting shot at,” Brown added.

“My buddy’s girl who has asthma started then freaking out. We HAD to get her out. So we call the cops. The cops arrive and [hear] the gun shots and think we are shooting at them.

“We yell at them and tell them we are not armed and made it out.”

Brown told Extra that his wife, who wasn’t with him at the time, was at first convinced the story was untrue and he was trying to avoid unpacking boxes after their move.

Join our commenting forum

Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies

Comments

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in