FINAL DAYS

Phone Calls Reveal That Hackman’s Wife Didn’t Know ‘How Sick She Was’

Betsy Arakawa-Hackman called a medical clinic the day after she was believed to have died.

New evidence shows that Betsy Arakawa-Hackman, Gene Hackman’s wife, who was estimated to have died on Feb. 11 due to hantavirus pulmonary syndrome actually passed away a day later, not realizing the extent of her sickness. Dr. Josiah Child, a physician from Cloudberry Health in New Mexico, told Fox News Digital that Arakawa-Hackman called the practice on Feb. 12 asking for medical advice not realizing “how sick she was becoming.” He said that “for some reason she didn’t recognize that she was becoming very ill with the second phase of Hantavirus, which invades the lungs.” Arakawa-Hackman had only mentioned experiencing a slight congestion over the phone and was scheduled to come in for an appointment at 1 p.m. that day but never showed. The practice called her back but received no reply. According to an interview with Fox News Digital, the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Department was able to confirm that Arakawa-Hackman did in fact make three phone calls on Feb. 12, one being to Cloudberry Health. The Hackman estate has also been under a temporary restraining order since Monday, preventing them from releasing any records pertaining to the couple’s death.