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'Homebound' Gene Hackman's health was 'slipping' in months before his and wife Betsy Arakawa's deaths


The 95-year-old actor and his wife Betsy Arakawa, 65, were found dead in separate rooms of their Santa Fe home on Wednesday, February 26.

On Friday, their friends, married couple Daniel and Barbara Lenihan and their son Aaron, opened up about the Unforgiven star's health and said that it had been declining 'in recent times.' The 95-year-old actor and his wife Betsy Arakawa, 65, were found dead in separate rooms of their Santa Fe home on Wednesday, February 26; pictured January 2003 in Beverly Hills About the late couple, he said she 'was still trying to keep him as active and engaged and as healthy as possible,' adding that Hackman did puzzles and yoga via Zoom every single day; pictured March 1994 in Los Angeles

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