When Beth Chapman of “Dog the Bounty Hunter” fame was diagnosed with stage 2 throat cancer in September, she was determined to show the greatest fight of her life in front of millions.
The 49-year-old, along with her husband Duane “Dog” Chapman, chronicled her journey in combating the deadly disease from diagnosis to surgery in a two-hour A&E special titled “Dog and Beth: Fight of Their Lives.
”Beth and Dog, 64, spoke to Fox News about chronicling their war with cancer, how faith helped them survive and what the future holds for their bounty hunting business:
Fox News: What compelled the both of you to open up about a private battle with throat cancer for this TV special?
Beth Chapman: We just share everything with our fans. And this wasn’t something that you could keep secret. It wasn’t going to be an easy battle by any means.
And so, after doing a lot of research about it, I just felt that being open and honest with our fans, who’ve been so loyal to us for so many years, was the best thing to do. There are literally hundreds of fans that contact me on a day-to-day basis that say, ‘I watch you every day while I’m doing my radiation.’ ‘I’m watching you every day while I do chemo.’ And those words just didn’t resonate as they should have, or as they do now.
Because you just can’t appreciate that fight until you’re in it yourself. So I just wanted to basically let them see that they are not alone… You can’t let it overtake your brain. You can’t become desperate and alone. You’ve gotta fight your way through it, maintain a positive attitude and surround yourself with people who are going to help you get through it.
Fox News: How determined were you to fight this cancer?
Beth: Listen, the first week all you think about is death. You think of how long do you have, what can you accomplish in that short time, you WebMD it, you contact Dr. Google – and all of those places are the wrong places to seek information, honestly. It took quite a quite a few people. Friends, my husband, who is amazingly positive all the time. And he doesn’t utter negative words.
So after the first week, my mind shifted from death to life. And how I was going to survive, how I was going to make it… I was going to need love and encouragement.
Fox News: Dog, how did you cope with Beth’s diagnosis?
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