Reality TV star Duane Chapman, 66, aka Dog the Bounty Hunter was trying to hold back his tears during an interview with Fox News while he was honoring his late wife.
Chapman was publicizing his family’s new show “Dog’s Most Wanted'” on “Fox and Friends.”
His wife Beth Chapman died of cancer this year in June.
Exclusive: Duane “Dog” Chapman and his beloved late wife, Beth, take on their hardest cases yet in Dog’s Most Wanted.https://t.co/tAHinYR3VE
— Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) August 19, 2019
“She battled it for two years. Beat it once and then it came back very aggressive,” said Chapman.
He told the hosts that the chemotherapy was damaging her body a lot, so she decided to halt it in order to continue with the show, adding that she chose to stay with her family until the end.
“The week before she went to heaven she put a guy in jail,” Chapman said. “Shot him, tased him, didn’t give him a chance.”
Duane couldn’t belive it and said it “was like a dream.”
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— DogWGNA (@DogWgna) August 22, 2019
“We want to be truthful and show different sides,” said Chapman when asked about the show. “We showed the real Chapman family. Each child takes it rough and each child is doing better. Allegedly time heals all wounds but I don’t know about this one.”
On the day Beth died, Chapman wrote on Twitter, “It’s 5:32 in Hawaii, this is the time she would wake up to go hike Koko Head mountain. Only today, she hiked the stairway to heaven. We all love you, Beth. See you on the other side.”
It’s 5:32 in Hawaii, this is the time she would wake up to go hike Koko Head mountain. Only today, she hiked the stairway to heaven. We all love you, Beth. See you on the other side.
— Duane Dog Chapman (@DogBountyHunter) June 26, 2019
Beth Died From Lung Cancer, not Throat Cancer: Daughter
Duane and Beth Chapman’s daughter says that her mother died of lung cancer, not from throat cancer, as was stated by some media outlets.
Beth was diagnosed with throat cancer about two years before her death, but she received effective treatment for Stage II throat cancer and it respited.
However, the cancer metastasized to her lungs, Bonnie Chapman told SurvivorNet.
“A lot of places have been reporting that she passed away to her throat cancer, but it was actually Stage IV lung cancer in the end,” Bonnie said.
“She did try one round of chemo,” Bonnie told the website. “And it did not go well for her. She had very severe symptoms.”
Because of the chemo, her mother couldn’t get out of bed, she said. Duane had told Fox that she couldn’t even lift her pinky finger.
“She had complained about every single joint in her body starting to ache… about her not being able to get up by herself to use the bathroom. It was hell to her,” Bonnie said.
Beth Chapman also “completely despised” chemotherapy, she said, adding that “she had tried [the chemo] because so many people had been telling her, ‘Please, at least try.’”
“And she didn’t want to disappoint people by not trying it at all, but at the end of the day, she did not want to lose her hair, her teeth…. She didn’t want to feel like she was falling apart,” Bonnie explained. “She wanted to remain as much ‘Beth’ as possible. Even though when she did pass, she had lost the majority of her hair, she was really happy to still have her smile and still look like Beth.”
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— People (@people) August 2, 2019
