Turner and Nist grew to become engaged through the finale of the inaugural season of “The Golden Bachelor,” which aired in November 2023. Their love story continued with a dwell televised marriage ceremony in January 2024, the place they formally tied the knot.
Nonetheless, after simply three months of marriage, the couple introduced their resolution to divorce throughout a joint interview on “Good Morning America,” which aired on April 12, 2024—the identical day Turner filed for divorce.
Through the interview, Theresa Nist and Gerry Turner defined that irreconcilable variations relating to their selection 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 needed to speak about till now,” he advised PEOPLE Journal. “I believe it is time, additionally as a result of it most likely will clear up plenty of thriller round what occurred again in February, March and April.”
“As Theresa and I had been attempting very onerous to search out our life-style and the place we had been going to dwell 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 accordance 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 chargeable for producing blood cells. “Sadly, there is no treatment for it. In order that weighs closely in each resolution I make,” Turner mentioned. “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 advised PEOPLE. “That is devastating information, actually. I used to be extraordinarily upset.” Regardless of his analysis, she mentioned, “He advised me although, that it was the kind of most cancers that he would most certainly outlive.”
“He is a really optimistic particular person and I’m too, and I do know that he’ll do the very best that he can to make this a optimistic expertise,” she continued. “And I’ve each religion that’s going to work out that means, that it’ll be the kind of most cancers that won’t have an effect on his life and that he’ll dwell to be a really wholesome previous age.”
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Did The Most cancers Analysis Play A Position In Their Divorce?
Whereas Turner speculated that the analysis performed an element of their divorce, Nist says in any other case.
“[It] wasn’t an element within the ending of the connection, not less than not for me,” she mentioned. “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.”
Prior 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 just’re with that particular person on daily basis anyway. There have been solely sure occasions that I used to be with him one-on-one,” she mentioned 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 dwelling. He was promoting his dwelling,” she mentioned 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 searching for a change of tempo. “[But] Gerry, after he acquired again dwelling, he sort of modified his thoughts,” she advised PEOPLE a number of months in the past. “He mentioned, ‘No, let’s do it six weeks right here and 6 weeks there.’ And I did not wish to do this. I actually needed a house collectively.”
“I needed 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 trying ahead to that a lot.”
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Theresa Nist And Gerry Turner Went Home Looking Nearly
In accordance with Nist, the couple checked out houses “simply just about.” “We by no means acquired there, and it by no means occurred,” she revealed. “So that will’ve been a factor to do otherwise, to really go to South Carolina and go see issues and see them in particular person as an alternative of simply them on-line as a result of that wasn’t sufficient.”
“I believe it simply petered out that we had been houses forwards and backwards and we may by no means agree on one. After which the emails simply stopped, [and] we weren’t trying anymore,” she continued.
