Dog the Bounty Hunter Gives Health Update on Wife

Dog the Bounty Hunter Gives Health Update on Wife
(L-R) TV personalities Duane "Dog" Lee Chapman and Beth Chapman attend the 2013 CMT Music awards at the Bridgestone Arena on June 5, 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Rick Diamond/Getty Images)
Jack Phillips
11/29/2017
Updated:
11/29/2017

Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman revealed on Monday, Nov. 27, that his wife Beth has “no cancer” after test results came back.

“This could be a miracle. This could be a healing,” Duane said on the A&E special “Dog and Beth: The Fight of Their Lives” that aired Monday, according to Rare. “[The doctor] said if I wasn’t such a good husband, it wouldn’t have worked out that great. Oh I can breathe. Beth Chapman, you did it.”
Beth Chapman was diagnosed with throat cancer. Earlier this year, she said in a letter to friends, obtained by Radar, “As most of you know I’ve spent a lifetime facing tests and challenges I didn’t see coming and certainly never expected. I’ve been dealt my share of unexpected blows over the course of my almost fifty years but nothing as serious as the one I heard from my doctors two weeks ago when they uttered those dreaded three words, ‘You have cancer.'”
TV personality Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman (R) and his wife Beth Smith arrive at Comedy Central's "Roast of Charlie Sheen" held at Sony Studios on Sept. 10, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images)
TV personality Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman (R) and his wife Beth Smith arrive at Comedy Central's "Roast of Charlie Sheen" held at Sony Studios on Sept. 10, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images)

In Septemeber, Doctors removed a “plum”-sized tumor from her neck.

“As I start this battle, I don’t see a lot of optimism,” she said in a trailer for the A&E special. “They give me 50/50 chances.”
Beth, meanwhile, told Fox that cancer was a “reality check” as she recovers.

“I feel pretty good. I get tired easily. My voice gives out after a certain amount of time. It’s a slow process to come back, but I try to keep my stress level very low,” she said. “I try not to get upset about anything. But mainly… [I’m] thankful that I can talk for any amount of time. That I can still see my children,” she said. “We’re just taking it day-by-day. We’ve gotten a reality check on life, and life is short.”

Bounty Hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman (R) and his wife Beth Chapman of "Dog The Bounty Hunter" speaks with the press at the TCA Press Tour Cable at the Century Plaza Hotel on July 21, 2004 in Los Angeles, California. ( Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
Bounty Hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman (R) and his wife Beth Chapman of "Dog The Bounty Hunter" speaks with the press at the TCA Press Tour Cable at the Century Plaza Hotel on July 21, 2004 in Los Angeles, California. ( Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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