Dog The Bounty Hunter Shares Heartfelt Video Of Late Wife Beth Chapman
By Regina G.
June 28, 2019
Duane "Dog" Chapman shared a special memory of his late wife Beth Chapman doing what she loved most.
On Thursday (June 27), Duane took to Twitter to honor Beth's life with a touching video, just a day after the Dog the Bounty Hunter star passed away after a years-long fight with Stage 2 throat cancer in Hawaii at the age of 51. “People have asked me.. What is something fans do not know about Beth… Here you go,” the 66-year-old star wrote along with a clip of his wife having the time of her life singing Bruno Mars' "Perm" amongst friends in an empty restaurant.
Despite her cancer diagnosis, Beth did all she could to live a complete life. This was constant at a press conference during which Duane tearfully recalled his wife's final moments and the last thing she told him before she died.
People have asked me.. What is something fans do not know about Beth... Here you go ❤️ @wgnamerica Marty Singer, Amy Weiss, Andrew Brettler @LelandBChapman @icEciLy @BabyLyssaC @dakotadog808 @Fast156 @theRealJaneBond pic.twitter.com/Om808KKV9k
— Duane Dog Chapman (@DogBountyHunter) June 27, 2019
"Her way was to live," Duane told reporters. "She wanted to live so bad and she fought so long, and the reason she fought, she liked life but she wanted to show people how to beat it and what to do when it got her.”
“One of the last things she said [was] ‘It’s a test of my faith.’ She had faith and that was it. There’s things you go through when you’re dying, like steps like you do when you lose someone, right? You get mad at them, and then you go through all these steps,” he continued.
“Well, the last step when you’re dying is to accept it,” he added. “And she said to me the other day, ‘Honey, that last step, I ain’t taking…’ So go Bethy.”
Beth's sudden and unexpected death came days after she was hospitalized in Hawaii over the weekend and placed in a medically-induced coma.
The reality star, who had been battling cancer since 2017, underwent a successful operation for the disease last year before it called her to have a tumor removed from her throat in November when it returned. Five months later, Beth's condition worsened when an "accumulation of fluid in her lungs" prompted an emergency operation in April 2019.
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