Duane “Dog The Bounty Hunter” Chapman is opening up about the death of his late wife Beth, who passed away in June of 2019 at the age of 51 following a battle with lung and throat cancer.

Daily Mail reported that while appearing on the Facebook Live show “Faith With Katie,” Dog revealed that Beth could not even look at him in his final moments because she knew he had given up hope of her survival.

“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],” Dog, 67, recalled. “She would not look at me because all of a sudden she knew I had given up and I was her last hope.”

This was in stark contrast to the positive way that Dog approached her cancer battle throughout most of it.

“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 said. “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,” Dog added in a moment of reflection.

Dog and Beth had been married since 2006, and she had been his longtime business partner and costar on their various reality television shows.

“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,” he said.

Dog has since found love again, as he is engaged to 51 year-old Colorado rancher Francie Frane, who also lost a spouse to cancer last year. After announcing that he had asked Frane to marry him, Dog told TMZ that
“it’s just incredible that I’ve been able to meet someone like her.”

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