{"id":2446324,"date":"2026-06-05T14:14:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2446324"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:14:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:14:01","slug":"how-matt-browns-ex-girlfriend-attempted-to-help-him-before-tragic-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-matt-browns-ex-girlfriend-attempted-to-help-him-before-tragic-death\/","title":{"rendered":"How Matt Brown&#8217;s ex-girlfriend attempted to help him before tragic death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d star Matt Brown\u2019s ex-girlfriend, Jamie, reportedly \u201cdid everything she could\u201d to help him through <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/03\/celebrity-news\/alaskan-bush-people-star-matt-brown-was-dealing-with-breakup-broken-down-truck-in-days-leading-up-to-death\/\">his \u201cpersonal struggles\u201d<\/a> before his<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/03\/celebrity-news\/alaskan-bush-people-star-matt-browns-cause-of-death-revealed\/\"> tragic suicide.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/04\/matt-browns-ex-wanted-him-to-seek-help-before-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sources told TMZ<\/a> Thursday that Jamie spent months urging Matt to seek professional help and believed she couldn\u2019t be his \u201conly source of strength\u201d during his \u201cdarkest moments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite their breakup and leading up to his death, Jamie allegedly still cared for Matt and \u201cremained committed\u201d to the reality star\u2019s well-being.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d star Matt Brown\u2019s ex-girlfriend, Jamie, tried to help him through his \u201cpersonal struggles\u201d before his death, sources told TMZ (Matt and Jamie are pictured above). <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/mattbrown511<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Insiders said Jamie spent months urging Matt to seek professional help during his \u201cdarkest moments\u201d (The former couple is pictured above). <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/mattbrown511<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The sources also claimed the pair\u2019s split wasn\u2019t Jamie\u2019s \u201cfault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, people close to Matt viewed Jamie as \u201ca positive influence in his life,\u201d insiders revealed. <\/p>\n<p>They said Matt\u2019s loved ones considered Jamie \u201ca blessing\u201d and described her as sweet, quiet, patient and extremely supportive of Matt.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/03\/celebrity-news\/alaskan-bush-people-star-matt-brown-was-dealing-with-breakup-broken-down-truck-in-days-leading-up-to-death\/\">As Page Six previously reported<\/a>, Matt was dealing with a lot emotionally \u2014 including his split from Jamie \u2014 in the days leading up to his death. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Jamie \u201cremained committed\u201d to helping Matt (seen above with his ex) even after their breakup, according to the sources. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/mattbrown511<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Insiders also claimed the breakup was not Jamie\u2019s \u201cfault\u201d (Jamie and Matt are pictured above). <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/mattbrown511<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brown family friend Chay Moore of Stardog Champion K9 said the breakup \u201cwas definitely\u201d on Matt\u2019s \u201cmind\u201d when he saw the Discovery Channel star three weeks before the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Moore said Matt was also frustrated on the last day they saw each other because his truck broke down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had been walking and riding buses and, you know, from town to town to, to survive,\u201d Moore shared. \u201cHe was using buses and stuff.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>As for Jamie, Moore revealed she \u201cspearheaded\u201d the mission to find Matt\u2019s body in the Okanogan River in Washington state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatt\u2019s girlfriend was really, really pushing us hard to get it moving and get out there on that water,\u201d he told us. \u201cI think she had a notion of where she thought he was, you know, in her mind, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Brown (seen above) was found dead in the Okanogan River in Washington on May 30. He was 43. <span class=\"credit\">mattbrown511\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>A Brown family friend recently told Page Six that Matt (pictured above) was dealing with a lot emotionally before he died. <span class=\"credit\">mattbrown511\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The body was discovered when an eyewitness called 911 after spotting a man\u2014 later identified as 43-year-old Matt \u2014 wading in the Okanogan River.<\/p>\n<p>On May 30, Matt\u2019s younger brother, Bear Brown, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/31\/celebrity-news\/alaskan-bush-people-star-matt-brown-dead-at-43-after-sibling-helped-pull-body-from-river-brother-says\/\">announced Matt \u201ctook his own life.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bear claimed his older brother had \u201cbeen struggling for a long time with alcohol and with drugs\u201d and that he\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/01\/entertainment\/inside-alaskan-bush-people-star-matt-browns-final-days-before-heartbreaking-death\/\">\u201cdidn\u2019t want anything to do with the family.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Okanogan County Coroner<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/03\/celebrity-news\/alaskan-bush-people-star-matt-browns-cause-of-death-revealed\/\"> ruled Matt\u2019s death a suicide <\/a>caused by a single penetrating gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The family friend told us Matt and Jamie\u2019s breakup was on Matt\u2019s \u201cmind\u201d (Matt is pictured above). <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/abpmattbrown<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Matt\u2019s death was ruled a suicide caused by a single penetrating gunshot wound to the head (The late reality star is seen above). <span class=\"credit\">mattbrown511\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Matt appeared in 79 episodes of \u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d between 2014 and 2019, which starred his parents, Billy and Ami, and his siblings.<\/p>\n<p>The Discovery Channel series followed the Brown family as they lived off the grid in the wilderness.<\/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 rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" 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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d star Matt Brown\u2019s ex-girlfriend, Jamie, reportedly \u201cdid everything she could\u201d to help him through his \u201cpersonal struggles\u201d before his tragic suicide. Sources told TMZ Thursday that Jamie spent months urging Matt to seek professional help and believed she couldn\u2019t be his \u201conly source of strength\u201d during his \u201cdarkest moments.\u201d Despite their breakup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2446325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[345234,22062,40151,70626,24003,39212,21913,394403],"class_list":["post-2446324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-breakups","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-exes","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-news","tag-suicide","tag-tv","tag-virtual-reali-tea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/How-Matt-Browns-ex-girlfriend-attempted-to-help-him-before-tragic.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446326,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446324\/revisions\/2446326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2446325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}