Amal al-Sadah, 29, was the youngest wife of the Al Qaeda leader, and was shot in the leg during the raid when she reportedly rushed towards the Navy SEALs invading the compound.
She told her captors that Bin Laden was still conscious when she was shot, and that her 12-year-old daughter told her he had been shot to death, according to the BBC.
Now in custody of the Pakistani military along with the other survivors of the raid, al-Sadah has provided key details that illuminate the terrorist's secret life while in hiding from the U.S. government.
The U.S. is reportedly in a tense back-and-forth with Pakistan over the opportunity to question al-Sadah.
According to some reports, she told investigators she did not leave a single room in the five years they lived in the compound, while other questioning has revealed Bin Laden split his time between only two different rooms, including the one in which he was shot to death.
"He used two rooms on one of the floors," Asad Munir, a former Pakistani intelligence officer, told ABC News. "He never went anywhere."
Bin Laden had five wives and 20 children, one of whom was also reportedly killed in the attack.
His wife's statements come as confirmation that Bin Laden had been sitting still for the last five years, rather than on the run as widely believed.
The U.S. government is now examining a trove of information taken from the Pakistani compound where he was killed, including hard drives and computer files that revealed terror plots in the works.
Though President Obama decided against releasing a photo of Bin Laden's dead bodies, graphic images of the other people killed in the raid were released by Reuters this week.
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