Beth Chapman stood in front of a mirror and asked her husband, “Dog the Bounty Hunter” star Duane Chapman, to look at her before she went unconscious.
“My mom was naked in the bathroom and told my dad to look at her. And he goes, ‘I am looking at you.’ And she goes, ‘No, look at me.’ And then she was standing there and she started gasping, and my sister came into the room and they called 911 immediately. And that was the last moment that we really saw her completely conscious,” she said.
She said those moments haunted Duane Chapman.
“There was a lot of miscommunication between us and the mortuary,” Bonnie Chapman told SurvivorNet.com.
She said that now, everything the family does “is being publicized.”
“And it’s hard sometimes, because we’re trying to keep it together. Right now is the most fragile time of our lives,” she said.
Beth Chapman was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2017. However, the cancer returned about a year later and spread to her lungs.
‘I Can’t Eat’
About a month ago, Duane Chapman said he lost 17 pounds since his wife died about two weeks ago.“I’m having a hard time ordering food. I’ve lost 17 pounds. Chewing ice helps, and I’ve lost 17 pounds in about two weeks,” he added, saying he no longer sleeps soundly.
Chapman said he wants to join his wife in heaven but isn’t contemplating suicide or anything drastic, saying that he wants to use his time on Earth to help others cope with the loss of a loved one.
He also described how one man came up to him, telling Chapman that he lost his wife six months ago.
“I hugged him and I felt a connection like, boom, instantly brotherhood, right,” Chapman explained. “So when you go through something and somebody else [goes through the same thing], there’s something there. That’s why I’m going through it, but I use that thing that’s bad to help me help others.”
The reality TV star also said it’s hard to get back to his routine after his wife’s passing.