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I've known Gene Hackman and wife Betsy for 18 years. I know what happened on the day they died - and their dog is key to the mystery: Bombshell interview that sheds new light on tragedy of mummified Hollywood star
At her Santa Fe clinic in New Mexico, animal chiropractor Dr Sherry Gaber was treating a four-legged patient when the phone rang. It was actor Gene Hackman 's wife Betsy Arakawa.
Over the next 18 years, Gaber would regularly treat the many dogs the Hollywood icon and his wife rescued and brought to live with them in their secluded four-bedroom home set on 12 acres of land looking out on the Santa Fe National Forest, with panoramic mountain views. She was first approached by Betsy when the actor’s wife attended a book reading Gaber was at in a Santa Fe bookshop and was intrigued by the chiropractor’s success in improving a slew of animal health issues such as digestive ailments, rear leg weakness and general body soreness. ‘I’m greatly pleased that they made it – I don’t know if they scrounged food in the house and had access to water – who knows how they survived for more than a week,’ says Gaber, explaining that a trap had to be set up in the grounds of the Hackmans’ home to catch the distressed Nikita when emergency services arrived.
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