‘Alaskan Bush People’ alum Matt Brown distanced himself from family after desperate attempts to get him help, brother claims

“Alaskan Bush People” prima Bear Brown is addressing respective “rumors” astir his narration pinch Matt Brown amid his brother’s disappearance.

“On nan taxable of y’all saying nan family turned their backmost connected Matt, that’s conscionable not true. We don’t publicize everything,” Bear said of his brother, who is suspected to beryllium dead pursuing a suspicious livestream appearance, successful a TikTok video posted Friday.

“Matt has done a batch of bad things, a batch of bad things that y’all don’t cognize about. A batch of bad things [to where] y’all’s sentiment [of him] would change. Now is not nan clip to speak connected worldly for illustration that, successful my opinion.”

Bear continued on, claiming nan family “didn’t and ne'er turned their backmost on” Matt.

“We spent a batch of trouble, a batch of stuff, a batch of hassle and a batch of money trying to thief Matt successful rehab three, 4 times. Everybody cared astir him and was connected his side,” he added.

“Everybody was trying to show him that everybody cares astir him, that everybody loves him. Matt distanced himself from nan family completely.”

Bear emphasized, however, that he had maintained a speaking narration pinch his relative contempt nan hardships he had faced, while others chose to region themselves “for individual reasons.”

Bear alerted fans to his brother’s imaginable decease connected Thursday, sharing that he had been told that Matt — nan eldest related of nan Brown bunch — “took his ain life.”

At nan time, Bear couldn’t “confirm that that’s true,” however, but informed fans that Matt was allegedly “seen successful a river, astatine a stream aliases adjacent to a river” and later “floating down nan river.”

According to Bear, personification past “called police,” who person been “trying to find nan body.”

In his Friday update, Bear doubled down connected his erstwhile statements, telling his followers that he’s “99 percent” judge that nan assemblage seen belonged to Matt.

“So, I’ve talked to rather a spot of group and stuff. I’ve heard from locals, eyewitnesses, and nan coroner. At this time, nan assemblage has not been recovered,” he said.

“All eyewitnesses person said that nan explanation fits Matt’s explanation to a T. So, there’s a really bully chance that it is him. I’m still praying that it’s not, by immoderate miracle, that it’s not.”

Matt was past seen a week ago, filming a nude livestream while seemingly nether nan influence. In nan video, he rambled while carrying what appeared to beryllium a gun.

If you aliases personification you cognize is affected by immoderate of nan issues raised successful this story, interaction the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling aliases texting 988.