YouTube Star Mikayla Raines’s Husband Blames ‘Rid*cul*us Rumor’ Spreading Online For Her Suicide

YouTube star Mikayla Raines’s husband has blamed a ‘ridiculous rumor’ that spread online for her suicide.

Raines was well known on the app for her dedication to an animal rescue that’s main goal was to save foxes.

Her husband, Ethan, has shared the heartbreaking news that she has died by suicide.

Raines worked to create a community under the name SaveAFox on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram – gaining many followers.

Ethan shared a 12-minute video breaking the sad news on her pages. He explained that his wife was on the autism spectrum and was “always in an out of different kinds of therapy” and tried “different mood stabilizers and meds.” adding that they never “seemed to help.”

He explained that she “took negativity to heart” and that over the past “few years” there had been “a group of people” “throwing dirt on Mikayla’s name and rescue”.

“Most of these are people she knew and some of them are other animal sanctuaries. They consistently spread ridiculous claims and rumors and, being the sensitive human she was, Mikayla took it all to heart,” he explained. “It hurt her, it hurt her a lot.”

“Recently, some of the rude words, accusations and name-calling came from some of those she considered close friends. I think all of this stems from jealousy and envy, but she felt as if the entire world had turned against her,” he continued, before revealing she had sadly died.

“She couldn’t bear what she was feeling any longer and she ended her life and it breaks my heart that someone who is selfless and devoted her life to animals, could have so much negativity pointed at her,” he said through tears. “Why? That’s all I can ask, is why? In a world that’s filled with darkness, she was just light. She was just light.”

Ethan went on to say to “those of you that pushed her to this, every one of you that that been responsible for making her feel this way.”

“I wish you had to feel what she felt. I wish you had to feel what I feel. I wish you had to see me find her and I wish you had to watch me perform CPR on her for 15 minutes until the first responders arrived,” he exclaimed. “And I wish you had to watch helplessly as paramedics attempted to revive her lifeless body. I wish you had to hear the screams and cries of her family. I wish you had to see tiny, heartbroken Freya try to understand why she can never see her mommy again.”

“I wish you understood what you were doing before you did it, before it had to go this far, and I wish you understood words to have real and terrible consequences,” he concluded. “If you only have negative garbage to say, just shut up.”

He shared this his wife was “one of the most selfless people I have ever known,” he said that “not having her here makes everything feel empty.”

Heartbreaking, RIP.