Alaskan Bush People alum Snowbird Brown is sharing an update on her family after brother Matt Brown’s death.
“So, everybody knows by now that my family is going through a tragedy with the passing of Matt, and I just wanted to come on here and say thank you guys for all the condolences and prayers and well wishes I, especially, told my mom [Ami Brown],” Snowbird, 31, said in a video shared via Instagram on Wednesday, June 10.
Snowbird revealed it’s been a “tough time” for her entire brood in the wake of Matt’s death, but it has hit Ami, 62, “the most.”
“So I just wanted to say, thank you guys for the kindness that everybody is sending. A lot of you guys have been with us for a long time, so … thank you for being here for this as well, being supportive and loving,” she continued. “I haven’t been online a lot, just been taking time to myself. I think everybody needs that every once in a while, especially when you’re going through things.”
Snowbird reminded her followers — and herself — that “everybody grieves in their own way.”
“It doesn’t have to look the same on everybody. If your grief is different than somebody else’s, it doesn’t make it less important, it doesn’t make it more or less meaningful,” she shared. “Everybody grieves in their own way, and never let somebody tell you your grief is wrong [or] you’re grieving the wrong way. You need to show more emotion, you need to show less emotion. It’s yours, you know how to grieve. Just let your body do what it needs to do.”
Matt’s brother Bear Brown confirmed his death at age 43 on May 30 after police in Okanogan County, Washington, conducted a search for an unidentified man who was spotted floating in the Okanogan River days before. Matt’s brother Noah Brown was at the scene and identified the body.
The Okanogan County Coroner’s Office confirmed to Us Weekly on June 3 that Matt died by suicide.
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“Knowing that, like, Matt’s not suffering anymore, he suffered for a long, long, long time, and he’s not anymore, and that’s what I believe,” Snowbird said in her update on Wednesday. “I believe he’s not suffering, and he is in a better place, and that’s what I’ve been reminding my family, like I even told Mom, is that you have to remember the good times.”
Snowbird said she and her family are still “working out the funeral arrangements,” including the date and where it will be held.
“We don’t have anything set in stone right now, just because there are people who want to attend, and we’re still figuring out who wants to attend and making sure that they can get here in time, and everything,” she explained. “So, we’re working out to make sure everybody can attend and arrive and work all that out.”
Snowbird added that she “probably won’t document the funeral,” but some of her brothers might.
“Funerals are pretty, pretty difficult on their own,” she said. “I don’t know, I can’t say one way or another.”
Snowbird concluded by thanking everyone for their “kindness and prayers and condolences.”
The Brown family, including matriarch Ami, 62, late patriarch Billy Brown and their seven children, rose to fame on Discovery Channel’s Alaskan Bush People, which aired for 14 seasons from 2014 to 2022. The reality show followed the Browns as they navigated life in the remote wilderness of Alaska and Washington. Matt quietly left Alaskan Bush People in 2019 amid struggles with substance abuse.
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