My grandson calls him ‘Grandpa Dog’ already.”įrancie has also proved to be a positive force in Duane’s health. “I had them come over and shows up at the door and I think my son sat there for five minutes and couldn't say a word because he was shell-shocked,” Francie says. And, the rest of her family is thrilled about Duane, especially her son who was initially in disbelief about his mom dating the star. Chapman.”Īs for Bob, Francie believes he would wholeheartedly approve of Duane. Dog, but by God there will be a final Mrs. Both of us had a decision to make – are we going to rise up from the ashes and get back to life and what Beth and Bob would have wanted from us?”Ĭhapman previously told ET he would never marry again and that Beth used to joke she would haunt him if another woman ever took her place. We thought we were going to spend the rest of our lives with them and that's not what happened and we were dealt a really hard hand. We're never going to leave Bob and Beth behind forget about them. “But we're in love and I say all the time, ‘Beth, I'm glad you provided me with Francie because that wasn't on my list.’”Īdds Francie: “We're both still grieving. “We honor those dates and we don't feel guilty, but it's kind of strange,” Duane said. They plan to return every year to mark the date. Duane shared how Beth used to love tubing down the Platte River in Colorado every Father’s Day, so this year he, his children and Francie visited the spot on June 26, the anniversary of her death. While the couple have found love, they continue to grieve their loved ones. The two are still deciding on a date and debating how big the ceremony will be, with Duane eager for a “huge” wedding attended by his fans. We were able to walk alongside each other through the pain and heartbreak and it brought us together in this amazing way.”ĭuane wasted no time proposing, even getting down on one knee. “We could cry with each other and talk about what we were feeling. “We understood the pain that the other one was feeling and those tough days and moments, we helped each other stand up,” Francie adds. The two quickly bonded over their grief and Duane says he, “knew right away this was love.” “She was screaming, ‘I told you!’”ĭuane eventually asked her out and she replied, “Yeah, if you go to church.” While initially brushing off Duane’s advances, the emotional, tear-filled church service culminated in the two holding hands and Duane declaring, “Gotcha!”įrancie is a former rancher and hunter, so Duane says there “couldn’t have been a better pick that God picked” for him. “As soon as I hung up the phone, I called my girlfriend and was like, ‘Are you sitting down right now because you're not going to believe who I just talked to,’” Francie says. It was during that call the two realized they were both grieving their partners. Francie heard the voicemail and called back, initially unaware she was talking to the television star until he mentioned he was Dog the Bounty Hunter. There ain't a girl built like another Beth.Fast forward six months and Duane, presumably needing an excavator, called Bob’s phone not knowing he had died.
Her therapy, you know, was hunting, bounty hunting, catching the bad guy," he added in the July 2019 interview. So she would say, 'Who is going to sit next to you?' And I said, 'No one.' 'Big Daddy, you better not let another girl take my place.' I said, 'I won't.'" The couple also went to therapy to deal with her illness, too. "I needed therapy and the therapy she used when she was sick was to hunt. Dog told the outlet of their final years, "For two to three years, she knew this might happen. She was first diagnosed with Stage 2 throat cancer in September 2017, per Entertainment Tonight. She and Dog were in the midst of filming their new show, Dog's Most Wanted, when she was hospitalized. Beth was 51 when she died at a hospital in Hawaii after being put into a medically induced coma. His wife, Beth Chapman, died in late June 2019 after a battle with throat cancer, and now he's finally ready to speak out about her final days. Dog The Bounty Hunter, whose real name is Duane Chapman, has gone through a lot over the past year.
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