Gene Hackman, who “because of Alzheimer’s fault has experienced the death of his wife over and over again”

As clarified in recent days by the investigators of New Mexico, Gene Hackman He died from heart problems about a week after his wife Betsy Arakawahit by a rare disease transmitted by the excrements of the mice, had collapsed lifeless on the floor of the bathroom of their home in Santa Fe. Now let’s find out that that last week on Earth, for the legendary actor twice Oscar winner, could have been a real hell. The doctor Catherine Piersol, expert in cognitive decayin fact explained to the BBC That Hachman, due to Alzheimer’s, before gaps his last breath may have repeatedly lived the trauma of his wife’s death: “Hackman lived the loss of his wife over and over again. His illness made him feel “as if he lived in a movie” He stayed for days without food. Which, the expert still explains, can increase the levels of confusion and agitation in patients who have Alzheimer’s.

A horror film scenario that combines diseases and loneliness of a couple who had lived isolated for some time: for months Hackman has not felt the Three children – Christopher, 64, Elizabeth, 61 and Leslie, 57 – born from First wedding with Fay Maltese. And from October Betsy had stopped contacting the 91 -year -old mother Yoshie Feaster, to whom he had always telephoned regularly. Elizabeth Hackman, who together with his sister Leslie said he was “devastated” by his father’s death, explained to Daily Mail: «We were very united. I hadn’t been talking to them for a couple of months, but everything was normal and everything was fine. Despite his age, Dad was in excellent physical condition and loved to do pilates and yoga ». A version contradicted by a couple of neighbors of the deceased spouses, who a People They explained: «Gene’s health conditions had collapsed in recent months. For some time he had no longer left the house ».

What is certain is that the bodies of Gene Hackman and of the wife they were discovered “with signs of mummification” on February 26, but the death It took place for some time before. The woman’s latest movements date back to 11 February: That day had come out for commissions and had returned home around 5 pm. From that moment, every communication with the outside was interrupted. And it is from that moment that the week of Gene Hackman has started, died instead on February 17 (as demonstrated by his pacemaker who has stopped working that day). From 11 to 17 February, the devo abandoned to himself could have “lived the loss of his wife over and over again “. Or, as the doctor hypothesized Heather Jarrellat the head of the New Mexico medical investor office, «It may not even have realized that the wife was dead “.