Beth Chapman nearly continued to work up until the final days of her life.
According to TMZ, the Dog the Bounty Hunter star had been taping another reality show with her husband, Duane "Dog" Chapman, until her unexpected passing. On Thursday (June 27), production sources told the outlet the couple's new WGN America series, Dog's Most Wanted, was a work in progress for several months and that Beth was slated to shoot the final episodes for the project, which came to a halt in light of her unfortunate medical scare.
As you know, Beth was hospitalized Saturday (June 22) after suffering a choking incident which led her to be placed in a medically-induced coma at a Hawaii medical center. After the three days of hospital care, the 51-year-old, who had been battling Stage 2 throat cancer since 2017, died Wednesday morning (June 26).
Per the site, Dog's Most Wanted covered the family's bounty hunting business and Beth's cancer.
TMZ adds cameras were not rolling and the series remains mid-production. Ultimately, it will be Duane's decision on how to conclude the season, though the outlet suggests it's possible producers may pull together raw footage from the show or postpone production until after the Chapman family has had time to grieve Beth's death.
Hours after his wife's passing, Duane appeared in front of Hawaii news cameramen to deliver Beth's final words. “When she had an attack I didn’t know anything to do but to say ‘in Jesus’ name’ and hold her and when I said ‘in Jesus’ name’ she said, ‘Say it again, say it more,'” he tearfully recalled. “And then she told the girls and everybody, with her mouth — she came out of it a couple times — ‘I love you’ and ‘Are you guys all okay? Don’t worry,’ but she never accepted it.”
Despite undergoing a successful procedure for her condition the same year of her diagnosis, the cancer returned and called for a tumor to be removed from her throat last November. Unfortunately, Beth's condition worsened when an "accumulation of fluid in her lungs" urged an emergency operation in April 2019.
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