Beth Chapman’s daughter Bonnie is opening up about shedding her mom to stage IV lung most cancers — and her tragic closing moments.
Whereas her father, Duane “Canine” Chapman, fantastically described Beth’s loss of life on June 26 by saying she “hiked the stairway to heaven,” their 20-year-old daughter says that in actuality it was far completely different. Beth, who was 51, misplaced consciousness at their residence in Hawaii and by no means regained it as they held vigil by her bedside at a Honolulu hospital.
“My dad goes time and again and over what occurred, as a result of he can’t get it out of his head,” Bonnie instructed SurvivorNet. “She fairly actually choked on her most cancers.”
Bonnie defined that Beth “was bare within the rest room and instructed my dad to have a look at her. And he goes, ‘I’m you.’ And she or he goes, ‘No, take a look at me.’ After which she was standing there and she or he began gasping, and my sister got here into the room and so they known as 911 instantly.”
Bonnie mentioned, “That was the final second that we actually noticed her utterly aware.” Nonetheless, they gathered by her facet on the hospital and shared many extra “final phrases” along with her — whether or not she heard them or not.
Bonnie additionally confirmed that Beth opted to discontinue her chemotherapy remedy. She had first been recognized with stage II throat most cancers in 2017 and went into remission, nevertheless it returned final 12 months — and had unfold to her lungs.
“She did attempt one spherical of chemo. And it didn’t go effectively for her. She had very extreme signs,” Bonnie mentioned. “She had complained about each single joint in her physique beginning to ache… about her not with the ability to stand up by herself to make use of the toilet. It was hell to her… She utterly despised it She despised who she was after that one session.”
Bonnie mentioned Beth tried it in order that she didn’t “disappoint individuals,” however ”on the finish of the day, she didn’t wish to lose her hair, her tooth… She didn’t wish to really feel like she was falling aside. She wished to stay as a lot ‘Beth’ as doable. Regardless that when she did move, she had misplaced the vast majority of her hair, she was actually joyful to nonetheless have her smile and nonetheless appear to be Beth.”
And in these closing months, Bonnie mentioned her father was unimaginable.
“At the same time as her hair began to decrease, he would inform her that she regarded like an Egyptian goddess,” she shared. “He simply cherished her a lot, and I’m actually pleased with him for sticking along with her till the final moments. That’s what she wanted. She wanted somebody who cherished her as a lot as my dad did. , I believe that she really feels that love now.”
She added, “My dad had a love for her that was consistently rising stronger and stronger.”
In a brand new interview with Canine, he mentioned he’s “not afraid to die anymore” throughout his harmful bounty hunter busts since his spouse died. Bonnie acknowledged that she and her relations are simply “attempting to maintain it collectively,” admitting, “Proper now’s probably the most fragile time of our lives.”
And when Bonnie thinks about her mother, it’s the easier moments — when she wasn’t taking down criminals or being a actuality TV star. Her favourite picture is Beth lounging in entrance of the hearth of their household’s Colorado residence with out her wig and the household cat by her facet.
“As bigger than life as my mom was, she cherished her moments of quiet,” she mentioned. “I simply hope that she’s getting that quiet proper now.”
Canine’s Most Needed, the household’s new actuality present, will debut Sept. 4 — and it’ll chronicle Beth’s sickness along with their legal busting. Bonnie admits that she’s undecided she’s prepared.
“It’s very weak,” she mentioned. “It’s in contrast to something you would actually expertise. It’s having the entire world have eyes on you in an intimate approach and to have the entire world know precisely what you’re going by way of… It’s actually laborious, I’m not gonna lie.”