Rayne Michaels, star of Netflix’s new series Calabasas Confidential, talks candidly about growing up as the daughter of rocker Bret Michaels and finding herself in the spotlight on a reality TV show.
‘Calabasas Confidential’ star Lane Michaels talks about father Bret Michaels
‘Calabasas Confidential’ star Lane Michaels opens up about having rock star Bret Michaels as a father and what it’s like to receive advice from him.
Count Rain Michaels removed from the drama scrum of “Calabasas Confidential.”
The 26-year-old model and daughter of Poison frontman Bret Michaels isn’t looking to stir up scandal or party hard in the Netflix reality series, which premiered on May 29, following influencers and Nepobabies from California’s bougie neighborhood.
“I know being in the middle of the drama obviously gets the most attention,” Lane told USA TODAY. “But someone has to be the voice of reason. Otherwise there will be chaos everywhere.”
Rain is I was there, I saw it All her life, she grew up with her rocker father and mother, actress and model Christy Gibson, and they often toured together. Reign and his sister Jorja Michaels, now 21, were endearing characters on the 2010 VH1 series “Bret Michaels: Life as We Know It,” which followed the father of two as he balanced rock stardom with family life.
“Honestly, my sister was like a reality TV star. She didn’t have a filter,” Lane says. “I was about 9 or 10 years old, in the preteen phase of my life.”
A typical series scene featured Brett offering his simmering eldest daughter a financial incentive to get straight A’s in school.
“He said, ‘I’ll give you $20.’ I thought, ‘Why don’t you give me $100 for every A?'” Lane recalled. “I’ve always had a business mindset.”
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The financial headspace and special parent-child relationship is on display in episode 7 of Calabasas Confidential in an intimate scene at Brett’s Los Angeles mansion (Raine still lives there and is in no rush to leave).
“He’s giving me life advice, so I brought up the fact that I might be considering a new career path, which is Feet Finder,” Lane says, laughing about a fetish website that “sells pictures of feet.”
“That’s a joke, by the way,” she added.
Before Brett realizes his daughter’s dreams of becoming a footy content creator are a joke for the camera, the doting dad spins the wheel, recovers from surprise, and even manages to give some encouragement.
“He was very genuinely supportive and was like, ‘Yeah, do whatever you want,'” Lane said. The conversation quickly turned to his father and TMI. “He actually started talking about how his feet had 11 negative reviews on Feet Finder. I was like, ‘Oh my god!’
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There’s too much information about the leg for the family, but this scene shows that Lane can tell her father anything.
“Every father is a rock star in their own right, but my dad is a really great dad,” Lane says. “Sometimes I think, ‘Shut up, Dad, I don’t need any advice.’ And I think, ‘This guy might actually figure something out.’
However, Brett didn’t give much advice to his daughter about appearing on reality TV, telling her, “Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.”
“That doesn’t make much sense,” Lane says. “It should be taken with a pinch of salt.”
Lane has only seen snippets of Brett’s appearances on the infamous VH1 reality dating show “Rock of Love” (2007-2009), where fans competed to be the girlfriends of rock stars.
“Put yourself in my shoes,” Lane says. “That’s my dad. A lot of girls are flirting with him and saying weird things to him. I don’t need to see my dad in that situation.”
Ford model Lane’s appearance on “Calabasas Confidential” as the most high-profile participant is partly due to his famous father, who is back in the spotlight after pulling out of the “Freedom 250” concert series sponsored by President Trump.
She is one of four “Confidential” stars with famous families, along with Hershey Miller, the son of rapper Master P. Preston Pippen, son of Chicago Bulls legend Scottie Pippen and reality TV star Larsa Pippen. Jodie Woods, model Jordyn Woods’ look-alike sister.
Laine, 26, is “like a grandma” to the kids on Calabasas Confidential.
Rain also earns the highest salary in the series for her modeling work. At the age of 18, she earned a coveted spot in the prestigious 2019 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
“I still have the magazine framed in my room, and my mom and dad have it framed too. It’s really nice,” Lane says. “That was my first real step into the spotlight.”
The rock star’s wise-cracking daughter is also the eldest of the “Calabasas Confidential” group, which includes singer, DJ and influencer Kimora Lewis, 23, and Dylan Wolf, 24, known as “Malibu Cowboy.” Instead of getting a shot on her 26th birthday last month, Michaels did Pilates with friends and visited a wolf sanctuary.
“I’m 26 years old. I’m like a grandma to people who are like 23 or 22. They’re supposed to be partying,” says Lane, who doesn’t understand how she can stay so calm. “I don’t know what happened. Maybe my dad brought his partying gene to partying in the ’80s, because he didn’t pass it on to me.”
