DEAD: Dog The Bounty Hunter’s wife Beth had died after a long battle with cancer (Pic: INSTAGRAM )
Dog The Bounty Hunter has confirmed his wife Beth has died following a battle with stage four lung cancer.
The star – real name Duane Chapman – took Twitter to announce the news.
He told his 532,000 followers: “It’s 5:32 in Hawaii, this is the time she would wake up to go hike Koko Head mountain.
“Only today, she hiked the stairway to heaven.
“We all love you, Beth. See you on the other side.”
TMZ also confirmed the news, adding that Beth had died at a Honolulu hospital.
The sad news comes just days after she was placed in a medically-induced coma following a long battle with the disease.
The 51-year-old was brought into the emergency ward of Queen’s Medical Centre in Hawaii on Saturday after battling “breathing difficulties”.
DEAD: Dog The Bounty Hunter’s wife Beth had died after a long battle with cancer (Pic: INSATGRAM )
BATTLE: Beth had been battling stage two throat cancer for a number of years (Pic: INSTAGRAM )
According to TMZ, she was then placed under a medically induced coma, from which doctor’s said she was not likely to recover.
Beth’s family, including her mother, children and grandchildren, have been by her bedside throughout.
The TV star announced in 2017 that she’d been diagnosed with stage two throat cancer but was cancer free by December of that year.
However, the disease returned last November, after which she underwent aggressive chemo until Mother’s Day when she stopped.
FIGHTER: Beth had managed to beat the cancer in 2017 only for it to return (Pic: INSTAGRAM )
SAD NEWS: Dog The Bounty Hunter announced Beth had passed away in a touching Twitter post (Pic: TWITTER )
Duane and Beth have been married for 12 years, though they had an off-on relationship for 30 years.
In 2004, Dog enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame with his namesake reality show, and the two later landed a spin-off titled Dog and Beth: On the Hunt.
They have two children together, named Bonnie and Garry, though they both also have children from past relationships.
