{"id":4031,"date":"2026-05-29T23:17:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/alaskan-bush-people-alum-matt-brown-distanced-himself-from-family-after-desperate-attempts-to-get-him-help-brother-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T23:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:17:50","slug":"alaskan-bush-people-alum-matt-brown-distanced-himself-from-family-after-desperate-attempts-to-get-him-help-brother-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/alaskan-bush-people-alum-matt-brown-distanced-himself-from-family-after-desperate-attempts-to-get-him-help-brother-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Alaskan Bush People\u2019 alum Matt Brown distanced himself from family after desperate attempts to get him help, brother claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F05%2F129121067.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d star Bear Brown is addressing several \u201crumors\u201d about his relationship with Matt Brown amid his brother\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the subject of y\u2019all saying the family turned their back on Matt, that\u2019s just not true. We don\u2019t publicize everything,\u201d Bear said of his brother, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/29\/celebrity-news\/alaskan-bush-people-alum-matt-brown-43-feared-dead-after-alarming-livestream\/\">suspected to be dead<\/a> following a suspicious livestream appearance, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@bearthekingofextreme\/video\/7645398041364548877?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a TikTok video posted Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatt has done a lot of bad things, a lot of bad things that y\u2019all don\u2019t know about. A lot of bad things [to where] y\u2019all\u2019s opinion [of him] would change. Now is not the time to speak on stuff like that, in my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d star Bear Brown (pictured above in his TikTok video) claimed his brother Matt distanced himself from their family after their many attempts to get him help. <span class=\"credit\">TikTok\/bearthekingofextreme<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cThe family didn\u2019t and never turned their back on Matt. We spent a lot of trouble, a lot of stuff, a lot of hassle and a lot of money trying to help Matt,\u201d Bear confessed in the video.  <span class=\"credit\">TikTok\/bearthekingofextreme<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Bear continued on, claiming the family \u201cdidn\u2019t and never turned their back on\u201d Matt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spent a lot of trouble, a lot of stuff, a lot of hassle and a lot of money trying to help Matt in rehab three, four times. Everybody cared about him and was on his side,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody was trying to tell him that everybody cares about him, that everybody loves him. Matt distanced himself from the family completely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bear emphasized, however, that he had maintained a speaking relationship with his brother despite the hardships he had faced, while others chose to distance themselves \u201cfor personal reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cEverybody cared about him and was on his side. Everybody was trying to tell him that everybody cares about him,\u201d Bear said of his brother, pictured above in a video from one of his YouTube livestreams. <span class=\"credit\">YouTube\/Matthew Brown<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Bear claimed several family members stopped speaking with Matt (seen above) for \u201ctheir own personal reasons,\u201d but stated that he had a relationship with his brother. <span class=\"credit\">YouTube\/Matthew Brown<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bear alerted fans to his brother\u2019s potential death on Thursday, sharing that he had been told that Matt \u2014 the eldest sibling of the Brown bunch \u2014 \u201ctook his own life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Bear couldn\u2019t \u201cconfirm that that\u2019s true,\u201d however, but informed fans that Matt was allegedly \u201cseen in a river, at a river or close to a river\u201d and later \u201cfloating down the river.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Bear, someone then \u201ccalled police,\u201d who have been \u201ctrying to find the body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his Friday update, Bear doubled down on his previous statements, telling his followers that he\u2019s \u201c99 percent\u201d sure that the body seen belonged to Matt. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Bear shocked fans on Thursday when he announced that he had been told his brother Matt \u201ctook his own life.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">TikTok\/bearthekingofextreme<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Bear said in his video clip that Matt was allegedly \u201cseen in a river, at a river or close to a river\u201d and later \u201cfloating down the river\u201d and the investigation remains ongoing. <span class=\"credit\">TikTok\/bearthekingofextreme<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSo, I\u2019ve talked to quite a bit of people and stuff. I\u2019ve heard from locals, eyewitnesses, and the coroner. At this time, the body has not been recovered,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll eyewitnesses have said that the description fits Matt\u2019s description to a T. So, there\u2019s a really good chance that it is him. I\u2019m still praying that it\u2019s not, by some miracle, that it\u2019s not.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Matt was last seen a week ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RoadWandererForever\">filming a nude livestream<\/a> while seemingly under the influence. In the video, he rambled while carrying what appeared to be a gun.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, contact the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/\">Suicide and Crisis Lifeline<\/a>\u00a0by calling or texting 988.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/29\/celebrity-news\/alaskan-bush-people-alum-matt-brown-distanced-himself-from-family-after-desperate-attempts-to-get-him-help-brother-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d star Bear Brown is addressing several \u201crumors\u201d about his relationship with Matt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/129121067.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}