Dog The Bounty Hunter is opening up about the pain of mourning his wife, Beth Chapman. Dog, whose real name is Duane, explained that he’s lost his appetite since her passing on June 26, and has lost 17 pounds because of it.
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“I can't eat. Two bites, I'm full. I got to force feed myself like I force fed her,” Dog, 66, told
Entertainment Tonight.
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He also explained that Beth always helped him read the menu in dimly lit restaurants and now he’s struggling on his own.
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“I would go, ‘What do I want today, honey?’ and she would name two things,” he said. “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.”
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“I haven't gotten past the place where I'm [not] putting a pillow where she was and covering it up,” he said about adjusting to her loss. “And then I wake up in the middle of the night and I see her and it doesn't register that [it] ain't her. I'm still there.”
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“I wake up to always touch her, especially when she was sick, I'd have to wake up a few times when she stopped breathing. I couldn't hear it no more,” he emotionally recalled. “And she's laying and I'm like, ‘You are not dying like that. I will not let you die.’ So I'm so used to that that I don't sleep solid anymore.”
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“I can't eat. Two bites, I'm full. I got to force feed myself like I force fed her,” Dog, 66, told
Entertainment Tonight.
He also explained that Beth always helped him read the menu in dimly lit restaurants and now he’s struggling on his own.
“I would go, ‘What do I want today, honey?’ and she would name two things,” he said. “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.”
“I haven't gotten past the place where I'm [not] putting a pillow where she was and covering it up,” he said about adjusting to her loss. “And then I wake up in the middle of the night and I see her and it doesn't register that [it] ain't her. I'm still there.”
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“I wake up to always touch her, especially when she was sick, I'd have to wake up a few times when she stopped breathing. I couldn't hear it no more,” he emotionally recalled. “And she's laying and I'm like, ‘You are not dying like that. I will not let you die.’ So I'm so used to that that I don't sleep solid anymore.”
Beth was placed in a coma on June 23 after a battle with cancer. He announced her death in an emotional tweet three days later. The couple married in 2006, after 16 years together.
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