Dog The Bounty Hunter’s daughter Bonnie is opening up about mom Beth Chapman’s death and her “last moment” of consciousness. Beth died at the age of 51 this June after a battle with cancer. Bonnie, 20, spoke out about her mom’s heartbreaking struggle with the disease, including why the reality star refused chemotherapy.
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“My dad goes over and over and over what happened because he can’t get it out of his head,” Bonnie told
SurvivorNet about the end of her mom’s life. “She quite literally choked on her cancer.”
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“My mom was naked in the bathroom and told my dad to look at her,” she remembered. “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.”
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“And my sister came into the room, and they called 911 immediately,” Bonnie explained. “And that was the last moment that we really saw her completely conscious.” Beth was placed in a medically induced coma and passed a few days later.
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Beth was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2017. She eventually went into remission, but the cancer returned a year later and spread to her lungs. She was forced into chemo, but Bonnie revealed her mom decided to stop it after one round.
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“It did not go well for her. She had very severe symptoms,” Bonnie said about the treatment. “She completely despised it. She despised who she was after that one session. And 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…”
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My dad had a love for her that was constantly growing stronger and stronger,” Bonnie said about her 66-year-old dad’s relationship with her mom. “And it really showed her like, ‘He is really here for me. He is going to take care of me until my very last days.’ It was really nice to see her take comfort in that my dad was always gonna be there.”
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“Even as her hair started to diminish, he would tell her that she looked like an Egyptian goddess,” she said of her dad, whose real name is
Duane Chapman. “He just loved her so much, and I’m really proud of him for sticking with her until the very last moments. That’s what she needed.”
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“She needed someone who loved her as much as my dad did. You know, I think that she truly feels that love now,” Bonnie said.
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Fans can follow the family’s journey with Beth’s cancer and loss on Dog’s Most Wanted, which premieres on September 4 on WGN America.
“My dad goes over and over and over what happened because he can’t get it out of his head,” Bonnie told
SurvivorNet about the end of her mom’s life. “She quite literally choked on her cancer.”
“My mom was naked in the bathroom and told my dad to look at her,” she remembered. “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,” Bonnie explained. “And that was the last moment that we really saw her completely conscious.” Beth was placed in a medically induced coma and passed a few days later.
Beth was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2017. She eventually went into remission, but the cancer returned a year later and spread to her lungs. She was forced into chemo, but Bonnie revealed her mom decided to stop it after one round.
“It did not go well for her. She had very severe symptoms,” Bonnie said about the treatment. “She completely despised it. She despised who she was after that one session. And 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…”
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My dad had a love for her that was constantly growing stronger and stronger,” Bonnie said about her 66-year-old dad’s relationship with her mom. “And it really showed her like, ‘He is really here for me. He is going to take care of me until my very last days.’ It was really nice to see her take comfort in that my dad was always gonna be there.”
“Even as her hair started to diminish, he would tell her that she looked like an Egyptian goddess,” she said of her dad, whose real name is
Duane Chapman. “He just loved her so much, and I’m really proud of him for sticking with her until the very last moments. That’s what she needed.”
“She needed someone who loved her as much as my dad did. You know, I think that she truly feels that love now,” Bonnie said.
Fans can follow the family’s journey with Beth’s cancer and loss on Dog’s Most Wanted, which premieres on September 4 on WGN America.
