Dog the Bounty Hunter says he reached lowest point after emergency cancer surgery and begged God to ‘send him a woman’
DOG the Bounty Hunter has revealed he reached his lowest point after an emergency cancer operation and begged God to "send him a woman."
In an exclusive interview, - told The Sun he felt alone and depressed after a four-hour surgery to remove cancer from his face.
He recalled pulling over in the snow and breaking down, before praying to God and asking for a new partner after losing his beloved wife .
Not long after, Dog says his prayers were answered and he met up with for the first time - and the pair - - fell in love.
Revealing his cancer scare for the first time, Dog, 67, told The Sun: "I had a sore on my head and the doctor called me and said, 'You have cancer.' And I'm like 'Oh great.'
"I said, 'Is there an expiration date?' He goes, 'Yeah, it's a quick one. So you need to get up here right now and let us cut it out of your head.'
"So I went to the hospital, they operated, and they checked it out again. But luckily he said it's not the deadly type. It's like a skin sore.
"So I had one on the nose removed leaving eight stitches and one on the forehead, which needed 10 stitches. So I got it done.
"The good news is I'm not dying.
"I go out to the parking lot and it's snowing. Now I'm from Hawaii, so this cold air is from Satan.
"So I go out and try to find my vehicle. The surgery was four hours. So in the four hours, the parking lot filled up and there's more cars there than a Saturday night honkytonk.
"The wind is blowing my hair straight back and I'm like, 'Oh my God, I hope nobody takes a picture of me out here like this.' And I just couldn't find my car.
"Then it started snowing in my face and it was lying in my eyeballs and I'm half Apache. I can't take this.
"I still couldn't find my car and I remember thinking, 'Man, if a girl was here, if Beth was here or someone was here to help me, I could find it.'
"So I was really depressed. I felt so alone."
Dog eventually asked security to help him locate his car and started driving home, but his anesthetic began to wear off, and he felt exhausted after having to drive back to the hospital to return two radios the security team had forgotten.
Tired and in pain, devout Christian Dog pulled over and began to pray to God.
"It was still snowing. And so all of a sudden I entered the spirit world and I'm talking to God by myself," he went on.
"There was a place to pull over right before the train tracks so I got out.
"Then I took my boot and went all the way around the truck and drew a circle.
"I'd never done this in my life. I got in the truck and turned everything off.
"And I said, 'Lord I pray to you, and this where I sit is holy ground' and I Googled on my phone how God gave Adam Eve.
"I always thought that Adam went to sleep, woke up with a missing rib and a sexy mama next to him.
"And so I read it and it says, Adam went to sleep. God took his rib, sewed the skin back together and said, 'Adam, guess what? Wake up I've got something for you.'
"So in the Bible God brought the woman to Adam, so when I read this I said, 'Lord I'm out there looking.' You know, I can't go to christian.com, I can't do all this stuff because all my fans would freak out.
"I got all these girls sending me pictures without their shirts on I'm like, 'Oh my God, what am I going to do?'
"So I said 'I've got to have somebody Lord, is up there partying in Heaven and I'm down here balling my eyes out here every single day. Lord I need more.'
"I said, 'This is your responsibility now, I've said in Jesus' name for 15 years on TV.'
"'My name Dog is God spelled backwards - I've stepped up for you as far as I can.'
"'People tease me about being with Jesus, saying, 'Oh he beats them up and then shoves Jesus down their throat.'
'Look I tried to do the best thing but now I need a woman."
After finishing his prayer, Dog drove off, and shortly after received a text from Francie, a widow, who lost her husband Bob to cancer six months before Beth died.
A few weeks earlier, Dog, not knowing Bob had passed away, left a voice message for Bob's excavating business.
Dog started getting to know Francie when she returned his call to let him know the tragic news about Bob.
The pair had spent an hour and a half talking about their shared experiences of grief and losing a loved one to cancer - and stayed in touch over the phone.
After receiving the text, Dog decided to act, and called Francie and invited her to meet him for coffee.
"I thought I was being trained to help others who have lost a loved one," Dog said.
"And I had no idea, because she told me she was a rancher and you know, I've never even kissed a rancher and I thought she was completely out of my league.
"And I call her up and say, 'Do you want to meet at the cafe?' I go, 'Now listen, this is not a date,' because, Francie was a widow and I felt like hitting on widows - that's not cool.
"So anyways, I look like Frankenstein and I'm sitting down in the cafe and in walks this cowgirl. She's just got a whole different look than I ever thought.
"And I'm like, 'Oh my God, this one rides bulls and cattle and all that'.
"She sat down and we start talking... and I think 'No this could never happen.'
"But on my way home I remembered my prayer. I remember thinking 'My God, this can't be her Lord?'"
Despite coming from different worlds, Dog and Francie over the next few weeks - and on Monday, he exclusively announced their engagement to The Sun.
They have been spending quarantine together at Dog's house getting to know each other - and the couple
Speaking about being locked down together shortly after meeting, Dog said: "Good things come out of a curse - where else would you get engaged and then be together all day and all night? And if you go anywhere you could get arrested?
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"What time of our lives could this have ever happened where I already know so much about her because I've lived there with her all day?"
Dog and Francie both spoke of their joy at being engaged
The TV star also said he was so happy with Francie, he wanted to have the "biggest wedding there's ever been" open to all his fans.
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