BF refuses to communicate and is in heavy influence of his friends. Help please?

Me (23F)and my BF (25M) have been in a LDR for over a year now. We are both doing our PG courses in different fields. We are also culturally different ( north and south indian respectively). Our relationship was always mature and was going through a satisfactory phase when out of sudden due to family and financial issues he had to leave his studies in between. Since then he has been facing a financial crunch and I can understand this situation completely. Also he told me about this issue when he was already 3 months into it. I don't know why he refuses to share exactly what is happening in his life. Even he expects me to find out what's bothering him without him telling me. For an instance when he didn't replied to my texts for a little longer than usual I called him up and he just said you must know I broke my phone it's not in the condition to be used. I mean how would I know if you don't tell me?? Coming to present issue he's now begging me to leave him as he has no strong financials and he cannot "afford" me. It hurts because in this one year I didn't received any gifts, dates or a single penny from his side though I've spend on his clothing ,birthday gifts and cafe bills out of love and without any double thought. He said his friend read our chats and asked that why I question and text him so much?? I was like why do you even allow him to see our personal chats? His friends portray me as an attention seeker who always tries to get in touch with him and why not he's my BF!? His friends would've tagged me a gold digger if I would've decided to move on from him after all of it. But now when Iam sticking up with him they call me too "dumb" to understand his situation. What must I do..he's in deep financial stress but listens to his friends to decide on me. Neither talk or share his situation. I feel lost and stagnated.. I want to keep this relationship with him.