Turner and Nist turned engaged through the finale of the inaugural season of “The Golden Bachelor,” which aired in November 2023. Their love story continued with a reside televised marriage ceremony in January 2024, the place they formally tied the knot.
Nonetheless, after simply three months of marriage, the couple introduced their choice to divorce throughout a joint interview on “Good Morning America,” which aired on April 12, 2024—the identical day Turner filed for divorce.
Throughout the interview, Theresa Nist and Gerry Turner defined that irreconcilable variations relating to their alternative of residence finally led to their separation.
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Gerry Turner Reveals Most cancers Analysis
On December 11, Gerry Turner revealed that he had been identified with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia, a slow-growing bone marrow most cancers.
“There is a matter that I have never wished to speak about till now,” he instructed PEOPLE Magazine. “I believe it is time, additionally as a result of it most likely will clear up a variety of thriller round what occurred again in February, March and April.”
“As Theresa and I had been attempting very exhausting to seek out our way of life and the place we had been going to reside and the way we had been going to make our life work, I used to be sadly identified with most cancers,” he added.
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In keeping with the Mayo Clinic, this uncommon illness causes white blood cells to remodel into most cancers cells, which accumulate within the bone marrow—the spongy tissue inside bones answerable for producing blood cells. “Sadly, there isn’t any remedy for it. In order that weighs closely in each choice I make,” Turner stated. “It was like 10 tons of concrete had been simply dropped on me. And I used to be a bit in denial for some time, I did not wish to admit to it.”
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Theresa Nist Opens Up About Gerry Turner’s Most cancers Analysis
“It was after I visited Gerry in Indiana [sometime in March],” Nist instructed PEOPLE. “That is devastating information, actually. I used to be extraordinarily upset.” Regardless of his analysis, she stated, “He instructed me although, that it was the kind of most cancers that he would most certainly outlive.”
“He is a really constructive individual and I’m too, and I do know that he’ll do one of the best that he can to make this a constructive expertise,” she continued. “And I’ve each religion that’s going to work out that approach, that it is going to be the kind of most cancers that won’t have an effect on his life and that he’ll reside to be a really wholesome previous age.”
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Did The Most cancers Analysis Play A Function In Their Divorce?
Whereas Turner speculated that the analysis performed an element in their divorce, Nist says in any other case.
“[It] wasn’t an element within the ending of the connection, no less than not for me,” she stated. “If that was one thing on his half, possibly, I do not know. However no, that did not issue into ending the connection. A part of it was the space, however that wasn’t the one half. That is actually all I’ll say.”
Up to now, Theresa Nist has emphasised that 4 weeks is “a really quick span of time to get to know somebody,” describing the method as “a really accelerated tempo.”
“Throughout that 4 weeks, it isn’t that you simply’re with that individual every single day anyway. There have been solely sure instances that I used to be with him one-on-one,” she stated on the time.
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Theresa Nist Opens Up About The Divorce
Theresa Nist beforehand revealed that she and Gerry Turner had made the choice to maneuver collectively to Charleston, South Carolina. “That was the plan. I used to be promoting my house. He was promoting his house,” she stated earlier than making it clear that she “wasn’t forcing him to go to South Carolina.”
The New Jersey native claimed Turner was “sick” of his lake home in Indiana and was in search of a change of tempo. “[But] Gerry, after he bought again house, he type of modified his thoughts,” she instructed PEOPLE a number of months in the past. “He stated, ‘No, let’s do it six weeks right here and 6 weeks there.’ And I did not wish to try this. I actually wished a house collectively.”
“I wished the enjoyment of being in a house collectively and designing a house collectively,” Nist continued. “I actually thought that was going to be phenomenal. I used to be wanting ahead to that a lot.”
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Theresa Nist And Gerry Turner Went Home Looking Nearly
In keeping with Nist, the couple checked out houses “simply just about.” “We by no means bought there, and it by no means occurred,” she revealed. “So that will’ve been a factor to do otherwise, to truly go to South Carolina and go see issues and see them in individual as a substitute of simply taking a look at them on-line as a result of that wasn’t sufficient.”
“I believe it simply petered out that we had been taking a look at houses backwards and forwards and we may by no means agree on one. After which the emails simply stopped, [and] we weren’t wanting anymore,” she continued.
