Former Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner doesn't have the fondest recollections from his wedding ceremony to Theresa Nist.
“It was butterflies and an anticipated funeral slightly than a marriage,” Gerry, 74, stated on the Monday, November 3, episode of the Tamron Hall Show, recalling how he was feeling the evening earlier than marrying Theresa, 72. “There have been lots of combined emotions. And I had simply come off of, actually, a high-velocity, synthetic atmosphere and I'm proper on the finish and I'm questioning whether or not I'm doing the suitable factor.”
Regardless of having chilly toes, Gerry in the end went via with the marriage and stated “I do” to Theresa in 2024. The pair introduced their plans to divorce months later, with Gerry releasing his aspect of the story in his memoir, Golden Years: What I've Realized from Love, Loss, and Actuality TV, out on Tuesday, November 4.
When requested how a lot he thought of Theresa whereas reliving their journey collectively in his e book, Gerry replied, “So much.”
“I imply, early within the e book and for a lot of the e book, I'm very complimentary of Theresa and all the ladies and the connection that I used to be constructing together with her and so forth,” Gerry shared on Monday. “However, right here once more, the remainder of the story is that when she stated on the present that she was able to give up her job, after which afterwards, that she wished to proceed working, there was a degree the place I knew deep down inside there was not going to be a compromise that labored.”
Tamron Corridor, in the meantime, pushed again on Gerry's concept that he was “complimentary” of Theresa, noting that the previous lead believed his ex-wife “created a story that she was a sufferer.”
“I don't suppose that's a praise. However that's your viewpoint, which is honest,” Tamron stated, whereas Gerry added, “I imply it's my reality. It's what I consider.”
Tamron clarified that she was not criticizing Gerry for his feedback, however slightly stating that “it takes so much to say, ‘That is my reality and I'm standing on it.'”
When The Golden Bachelor premiered in 2023, Gerry Turner appeared just like the splendidly earnest antidote to the franchise's common chaos — a Midwestern widower with a young coronary heart and simply the correct quantity of father (even grandpa!) power. Because the inaugural lead of the present's later-in-life spinoff, By the point he proposed to Theresa Nist […]
Sooner or later later, Theresa fired again at Gerry's claims in his e book — together with that he felt “trapped” the evening earlier than marrying her. Theresa alleged that the pair by no means had a dialog about the place he stood, and he or she would have been “relieved” if he shared his nerves together with her.
“I've to say that I all the time stated I wish to stay my life with out regrets, however boy I made some errors right here. I remorse getting married so rapidly. That shouldn't have occurred,” Theresa shared on the Tuesday episode of the “Pricey Shandy” podcast.
Whereas relaying a message to Gerry, Theresa shared elsewhere within the podcast that he did her “no favors” by persevering with on with their nuptials. She added, “It is best to have referred to as off the marriage.”
Gerry, in the meantime, has moved on with Lana Sutton — asserting the pair's engagement in October. Theresa, for her half, remains to be hopeful about discovering love later in life.
“I actually do need to get married. I do need love in my life. That's what I wished,” she stated on Tuesday. “That was the entire level of this.”
