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Gene Hackman’s wife Betsy Arakawa’s doctor claims she called him

The mystery surrounding the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, has deepened as the pianist’s doctor cast doubt on the date that officials estimate she died.

Dr. Josiah Child, who runs the Cloudberry Health private practice in New Mexico, claimed Sunday that he received a phone call from Arakawa on Feb. 12 — one day after she was said to have died.

“Mrs. Hackman didn’t die on Feb. 11 because she called my clinic on Feb. 12,” he told the Daily Mail.

Gene Hackman’s wife Betsy Arakawa’s doctor claimed she called him the day after officials estimated she died. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images
Dr. Josiah Child said the pianist called his New Mexico office on Feb. 12. GovernorMichelleLujanGrisham/YouTube

The doctor shared that Arakawa had called his clinic a “couple of weeks before her death” to ask about getting a heart scan for her husband.

At the time, she was not a patient of Child’s, but she ended up scheduling an appointment for herself for Feb. 12.

“It was for something unrelated to anything respiratory,” he told the outlet, referencing a medical examiner determining that Arakawa died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare rat-borne respiratory disease.

The doctor said Arakawa scheduled an appointment for herself at Cloudberry Health for Feb. 12. / SplashNews.com
She canceled the appointment on Feb. 10 but scheduled it again for Feb. 12. AP

Child said Arakawa ultimately canceled her appointment on Feb. 10 because her “husband was not well.”

However, she called his office back “on the morning of Feb. 12 and spoke to one of [his] doctors, who told her to come in that afternoon.”

“We made her an appointment, but she never showed up,” Child claimed. “She did not show any symptoms of respiratory distress. The appointment wasn’t for anything related to hantavirus. We tried calling her a couple of times with no reply.”

Arakawa ultimately never showed up for the visit. DMI/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock
She and Hackman were found dead in their New Mexico home on Feb. 26. Dave Lewis/Shutterstock

The bombshell contradicts with the medical examiner’s previous estimation that Arakawa died on Feb. 11.

That afternoon, she was seen running errands at a local grocery store, a pharmacy and a pet shop near the couple’s Santa Fe home.

Hackman and Arakawa were not found dead, however, until Feb. 26. They were 95 and 65, respectively.

A medical examiner determined that Arakawa died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. Facebook / Animal Rescue, Inc.
Hackman died about a week later from heart disease. Bei/Shutterstock

Officials believe the musician died about a week before the “French Connection” actor in their house.

Hackman, who had heart problems and advanced Alzheimer’s disease, died from hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in a separate room.

He is believed to have died on Feb. 18, which was the last day his pacemaker was active.

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