{"id":4202,"date":"2026-06-01T13:41:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/inside-alaskan-bush-people-star-matt-browns-final-days-before-heartbreaking-death\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:41:43","slug":"inside-alaskan-bush-people-star-matt-browns-final-days-before-heartbreaking-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/inside-alaskan-bush-people-star-matt-browns-final-days-before-heartbreaking-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside &#8216;Alaskan Bush People&#8217; star Matt Brown&#8217;s final days before heartbreaking death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2Fbrown-39.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d star Matt Brown saw his brother Noah Brown the day before he <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/31\/celebrity-news\/matt-browns-brother-says-he-committed-suicide-after-alaskan-bush-people-stars-body-pulled-from-river\/\">died by suicide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was \u201cjust one of those, like, driving by [and] wave-type situations,\u201d Noah <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/noah-brown-details-brother-matt-browns-final-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Us Weekly<\/a> on Monday, going on to share his regrets about not stopping last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish I had more time when I drove past,\u201d the 33-year-old confessed. \u201cBut \u2026 it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Matt Brown (pictured above in 2024) ran into his brother Noah Brown the day before his tragic death by suicide. <span class=\"credit\">mattbrown511\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The duo had \u201cone of those, like, driving by [and] wave-type situations,\u201d Noah (pictured above on Saturday) told Us Weekly. <span class=\"credit\">noah_dc_brown\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Noah, who <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/31\/celebrity-news\/alaskan-bush-people-star-noah-brown-emotionally-confirms-he-identified-brother-matts-body\/\">identified Matt<\/a> after his body was pulled from a Washington river Saturday, went on to describe his final conversation with his late sibling \u201ctwo or three weeks\u201d before Matt\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ran into him in the grocery store [and] the last thing I said to him was, \u2018Okay, love you more, man,\u2019 which was our thing,\u201d Noah recalled. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never know when the last time you\u2019re going to see someone is, so [our family] always [says] how you feel right before you say goodbye, because it could be the last thing,\u201d he added. \u201cThen that was it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for their relationship dynamic prior to Matt\u2019s death, Noah said they were \u201cgood\u201d but <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\/\">\u201ckept [their] distance.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Noah regrets not having \u201cmore time\u201d to chat with Matt (pictured above on May 10). <span class=\"credit\">YouTube\/Matthew Brown<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Noah\u2019s last conversation with Matt (pictured above in June 2025) took place at a grocery store. <span class=\"credit\">Matt Brown\/YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He explained, \u201cIn the later years, I realized it was best to just kind of let him do his own thing. \u2026 The stress of a large family gets to some people, and it\u2019s just one of those things. [I] just let\u2019s let him live his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe and I were good and I\u2019m very, very thankful for that,\u201d Noah continued. \u201cI do wish, though, that there could have been more, but in the end, that\u2019s kind of always how it is. You always wish that you could have done more, no matter how much it was that you were doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matt <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/29\/celebrity-news\/alaskan-bush-people-alum-matt-brown-43-feared-dead-after-alarming-livestream\/\">went missing<\/a> on Wednesday, with the Okanogan County Sheriff Office revealing a 911 caller \u201cheard a sound\u201d at the Okanogan River, turned and saw a man \u201cfacedown in the water drifting away in the current.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A gun was later recovered from the area.<\/p>\n<p>He died by suicide, according to brother Bear Brown\u2019s TikTok video over the weekend.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Noah shared his \u201clove\u201d with Matt (pictured above on May 12) at the time. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/abpmattbrown<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Matt (pictured above in June 2025) went missing Wednesday. <span class=\"credit\">Matt Brown\/YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t think he would hurt himself, it does look like the injury is self-inflicted,\u201d Bear told his social media followers. \u201cObviously, the coroner has to look at him and stuff, but I thought you guys should know it is him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bear, like Noah, ran into Matt prior to his death while out shopping \u201ca little bit ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matt, who struggled \u201cfor a long time with alcohol and drugs,\u201d told his brother that he had \u201cfallen off the wagon,\u201d Bear claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old, at the time, urged Matt to go to rehab.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>His body was recovered from a Washington river and identified by Noah on Saturday. <span class=\"credit\">mattbrown511\/Instagran<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The family members appeared on \u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d between 2014 and 2019. <span class=\"credit\">Discovery+<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He insisted via TikTok that his family did not \u201cshun\u201d Matt, alleging instead that his sibling \u201cdidn\u2019t want anything to do with the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Brown family, notably, appeared on\u00a0Discovery Channel\u2019s \u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d between 2014 and 2019.<\/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<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/\"><strong><em>Suicide and Crisis Lifeline<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>\u00a0by calling or texting 988.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/01\/entertainment\/inside-alaskan-bush-people-star-matt-browns-final-days-before-heartbreaking-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d star Matt Brown saw his brother Noah Brown the day before he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4203,"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-4202","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\/06\/brown-39.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202","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=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}