Multiple accounts from family and those close to the late actor and his wife indicate the couple withdrew from everyone in their final days and weeks.

Gene Hackman‘s health was waning for months before his tragic death alongside his wife Betsy Arakawa in their Santa Fe home, Knewz.com can reveal. Several of the Unforgiven actor‘s closest family friends opened up about Hackman’s health,

Hackman’s longtime friend said that “in recent times” the two-time Oscar winner was “essentially kind of home-bound.”