Dog the Bounty Hunter reveals wife Beth Chapman's final words

Duane "Dog" Chapman is opening up about the loss of his wife, Beth Chapman.

Hours after Beth lost her battle with throat cancer at the age of 51 on Wednesday, June 26, her husband spoke to Hawaii News Now outside of the Honolulu hospital where she had been in a medically-induced coma, where he was asked about her final moments.

"The last step when you're dying is to accept it. She said to me the other day, 'Honey, that last step? I ain't takin' it,'" Dog recalled. "When she had an attack I didn’t know anything to do but to say 'in Jesus name' and hold her and when I said 'in Jesus name' she said, 'Say it again, say it more.' And then she told the girls and everybody, 'I love you' and 'are you guys all okay?' and 'don't worry,' but she never accepted it."

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The reality also revealed his final message concerning his wife's passing.

"As Lazarus lay, Jesus said, 'He's not dead, he's sleeping.' My final words are, 'Beth isn't dead, she's sleeping,'" he went on. "I'm gonna see my honey again. That's all we can do, is hope."

Beth, he said, approached her cancer battle "her way," which was the only way she knew how, and was in an effort to benefit other people who may be going through a similar experience.

"There's some things that they predicted that the doctors ended up saying, 'We've never, ever seen anything like his.' It was completely her way: Her way was to live. She wanted to live so bad. She fought so long, but the reason she fought was she liked life and wanted to show people how to beat it," he explained. "And what to do when it got the. One of the last things she said was, 'This is a test of my faith.'"

The couple was filming for their upcoming new reality show, which will reportedly place heavy emphasis on Beth's health issues. It's unclear how much of these final moments will be seen on camera because, for the Chapmans, Beth's passing came as a shock.

"[This is] the most terrible time in someone's life. You try to remember you're celebrating the life, but right now we're mourning the death," he said. "For a few years, [we] knew that someday this day would come. It came very unexpected, really fast. [...] The cancer gig, of course, we've got to find a cure. All we have now is that some get lucky, but most pass away."

"It's a hard fight. She fought hard. Beth was somewhat of a control person, so -- not from the grave but from heaven -- I'm sure she's still controlling me. I've got notes on my pillow case, on my sink, in my shaving thing," he also added with a smile. "She's still telling me what to wear. I loved her so much."