Leslie Fhima is giving an replace on the place she stands with ex Gerry Turner after showing on The Golden Bachelor season 1.
“I actually don't have a relationship with Gerry. If I see him, we're effective. We're very cordial,” Leslie, 66, mentioned on the Friday, August 1, episode of the “Almost Famous” podcast. “I actually solely need the perfect for him.”
Leslie bumped into Gerry, 73, on the finale of Grant Ellis' season 29 of The Bachelor earlier this 12 months — the place the previous Golden Bachelor revealed that he was in a relationship with new girlfriend Lana.
“I'm comfortable for him,” Leslie mentioned. “I simply need everybody to be comfortable, actually. In our age, it's like TikTok. All of us wanna discover our individual and get on with our life. So I'm comfortable for him.”
She continued, “Clearly, should you would have requested me that September after the present after I received dwelling, it was onerous for me and I did have some darkish days. However like at all times, I simply picked myself up and moved on, so I solely need the perfect.”
Throughout the November 2023 finale, Leslie was despatched packing earlier than Gerry received down on one knee and popped the query to Theresa Nist. Gerry and Theresa, 72, tied the knot throughout a stay ABC particular in January 2024. Months later, the pair shared their plans to half methods and Us Weekly confirmed in June 2024 that they signed a martial settlement settlement.
When requested whether or not she wished the present would have “performed out otherwise,” Leslie admitted that it's “onerous for [her] to say.”
“I actually really feel like all the things occurs for a purpose. I don't know. Theresa and I are alike loads, however we're very totally different, too. So I don't know if one individual is a greater match for someone else, versus no matter,” she mentioned. “I believe issues occur the best way that they're presupposed to. Now that I'm very far faraway from it, I really feel that it was finest that I used to be not the final woman standing.”
The Golden Bachelor runner-up Leslie Fhima is on to greater and brighter issues after being dumped by Gerry Turner. “Grateful for the journey on @goldenbachabc, the place I embraced vulnerability and chased love fearlessly,” Leslie, 64, wrote by way of Instagram on Friday, December 1, hours after the season finale aired on ABC. “Although the ultimate rose eluded […]
Leslie shared that she had some “unhealthy occasions” after the present, together with watching the season again. In December 2023, Leslie famous that she “felt higher” — and was “effective” by the point Theresa and Gerry mentioned “I do.”
Now, as Gerry gears as much as launch his November memoir — titled Golden Years: What I've Realized from Love, Loss, and Actuality TV — Leslie shared her ideas on being name-dropped within the guide.
“I've to be talked about as a result of I used to be an enormous a part of that present and an enormous a part of his journey,” she mentioned. “I believe that I don't really feel like I did something the place he's going to say one thing derogatory about me. So I'm OK, I believe, with it. We had a good time, we laughed loads. He broke my coronary heart, however all the things is OK.”
She continued, “I didn't do something, clearly. It's his journey, his resolution. So I'm OK. Am I going to learn it? I don't know. I've to see, I'm unsure. I'm curious about seeing what he says so I in all probability will.”
Leslie, for her half, took one other shot at love on Bachelor in Paradise season 10, the place she ended up pursuing a reference to Gary Levingston. The pair, nonetheless, had been despatched dwelling through the Monday, August 4, episode of Bachelor in Paradise in a brand new twist to the present.
Leslie and Gary Disney/Bahareh Ritter
“Despite the fact that I'm unhappy and I want we might have stayed, I believe that we confirmed the younger those that once you become older, you don't must cease having enjoyable or tame it down, clearly,” she mentioned in a confessional, whereas Gary, 66, shared that the pair would “proceed to maneuver ahead with our journey, simply another way.”
Bachelor in Paradise airs on ABC Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.
