Dog the Bounty Hunter recalls how beloved wife Beth ‘wouldn’t look at him’ at the end of her life

Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman’s wife Beth couldn’t bring herself to look at him before she died. 

Although Duane, 67, had been positive throughout Beth’s long battle with throat cancer, she knew he had given up hope just before she passed away. 

Speaking on Facebook Live show Faith With Katie, he explained: ‘They brought her out of the coma and I said, “You’re gonna go see my mom. You’re gonna go see your daddy. And Bethy, you’re gonna see Barbara Katie [his daughter who died in 2006].”‘

‘She would not look at me because all of a sudden she knew I had given up and I was her last hope,’ he sadly recalled. 

Until then, Duane had remained positive, explaining: ‘There was no planning. There was no, “You’re gonna die, Let’s plan it. So what do I get? Where did you put the watch?” There was none of that.’

He told her: ‘Beth, I do not want to hear about death. You’re not gonna die. You are not gonna die’.  

‘I wonder why they tell people when they’re dying, “Don’t worry. You’ll make it through Christmas.” They know you’re not,’ the reality star reflected in his interview. 

Beth died at a hospital in Hawaii after a long battle with cancer on June 26, 2019. She was 51. 

She and Dog had been married since 2006 and she co-starred alongside her husband on Dog the Bounty Hunter, Dog and Beth: On the Hunt and Dog’s Most Wanted. 

‘There’s things I hold forever in my heart that I should’ve done, right. Let me tell you. No one knows what it’s like,’ Dog said.

Chapman has since found love again and is now engaged to a woman by the name of Francie Frane, 51.

He revealed during his interview that he was ready to move on with his new love. 

Francie also lost her spouse to cancer and Dog has said in the past that their collective grief is something they can bond over.

A few days after announcing his engagement to Francie, Duane told TMZ that ‘it’s just incredible that I’ve been able to meet someone like her.’ 

He explained: ‘Well, she for a living she’s a rancher and she has recently lost her husband to cancer, six months before I lost Beth. So we like hooked up on the phone and started you know, talking to each other, crying, consoling each other.’ 

Chapman has been married five times and has 13 children.