‘Alaskan Bush People’ star Matt Brown was dealing with breakup, broken-down truck in days leading up to death: ‘Hit him at the same time’

“Alaskan Bush People” prima Matt Brown was going done a batch emotionally successful nan days starring up to his death, a friend of nan family exclusively tells Page Six.

Brown’s assemblage was pulled put of nan Okanogan River successful Washington authorities Saturday, and his relative Bear said he died by suicide.

Page Six said to Chay Moore of Stardog Champion K9 Thursday, a family friend of nan Browns who was besides portion of nan unit that pulled Matt’s assemblage retired of nan river. Moore said he saw Matt little than 3 weeks anterior to discovering his body, and that nan reality prima was going done stressful situations.

“He couldn’t get his pickup motortruck running, and that was portion of his vexation connected that time was nan truck’s not going to get moving — he can’t spell connected his trip,” he told us.

“[He] collapsed up pinch his girlfriend,” he continued. “All of these things deed him astatine nan aforesaid clip connected that day.”

Matt was making love a female named Jamie anterior to his death, and while Moore said he didn’t cognize nan nonstop clip framework of their breakup, he said he knew “it was decidedly connected his mind” connected nan peculiar time he saw Matt.

“He had been stepping and riding buses and, you know, from municipality to municipality to, to survive,” he besides said of nan hardships Matt was facing aft his motortruck collapsed down. “He was utilizing buses and stuff.”

Moore said Jamie was instrumental successful uncovering Matt’s body.

“Matt’s woman was really, really pushing america difficult to get it moving and get retired location connected that water,” he shared. “I deliberation she had a conception of wherever she thought he was, you know, successful her mind, I think.”

“She fundamentally spearheaded nan searchers connected that river,” he added.

In a TikTok video past week, Bear said that Matt was “going done a really bad breakup” with “a woman he really liked.”

“I conjecture he had been drinking excessively much. I don’t cognize each nan specifications to it,” he said.

He besides said that Matt “has been struggling for a agelong clip pinch intoxicant and pinch drugs,” but he insisted nan family did not “shun” him. Instead, Matt allegedly “didn’t want thing to do pinch nan family.”

In Bear’s video complete nan play confirming Matt’s decease he shared, “I didn’t deliberation he would wounded himself, it does look for illustration nan wounded is self-inflicted.”

Matt and Bear’s youngest brother, Noah, besides confirmed that they recovered Matt’s assemblage successful a stream and said he was nan 1 who identified him.

The Brown family appeared on Discovery Channel’s “Alaskan Bush People” betwixt 2014 and 2019. The reality bid followed nan family of 9 arsenic they lived disconnected nan grid successful nan wilderness.

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.