Just one year after the announcement, he was ending his three -month marriage, OG Bachelor of gold Winner Theresa Nist Looking back to his “tornador” relationship with lead Gery Turner.
“This was another world,” Theresa, now 71, recently told US Weekly During a special interview, saying that the series was overall a “incredible” experience. He then admitted, “We were caught in such enthusiasm at that time. And then when all this was over, it was liked, ‘Okay, I have come back in my regular life and how is life?” I just had to retreat and just who I was.
the Bachelor The franchise had one of its most successful ventures over the years, when Gerry, now 73, handed over the first senior star to the rose. During the conclusion of November 2023, the audience saw Theresa’s proposal to Gery. They rise in front of ABC cameras in January 2024.
“I don’t like anything regrets,” Theresa said We More than once during our zoom chat. “But it’s not that they were telling us, ‘Okay, we are giving you this wedding and you are six months, one year, two years, whenever you want it.” It was now or never. It was a quick decision. ,
Now, she can accept, “We might have been waiting.”
“It would be the right thing,” he said. “It was just so exciting and it is, here is your time limit.”
Nevertheless, Theresa says that her feelings and desire to marry were real at the time as it was evident from the participation of her and Gerry’s children.
“They were very excited, so many helpful and we all believed that it was going to work,” he said. “We wouldn’t have done it [otherwise]I was in love. I really believed that it was forever and a lifetime. We all thought so. I mean listen to our wedding vow and what my daughter said and what her daughter said. We actually believed it, in fact. ,
The initial perception from fans was that the Twosome separated from the distance as they never followed with their plans to move Charleston together. Instead, at that time, Theresa stayed in New Jersey and remained in Gerry Indiana.
“This was not the reason,” Theresa told We as a matter of fact. “But I will give Kudos [Golden Bachelorette] Zone [Vassos], Who started his season by saying this, ‘I am not moving forward and I do not expect that person to move.’ I think they treat us like young people who are just starting their lives during the inauguration season. They can go together and find their way and decide where to live. But when you are talking about older people who have houses and they have found the community and they have found children and perhaps, grandson, this is a difference. That and [fiancé] Nail [Chapple] It has really found a way to work. And maybe he could work [for us]They should be open -minded for this. Either, or in the same city or the same state or neighboring states. But this was not the reason. ,
Theresa then made it clear: “I want to say this. His illness was not the reason for this.”
Gery made public in December 2024 with her waldenstrom’s macoglobulinmia (a slow growing type of bone cancer) diagnosis. In an interview. People At that time, Gery said that he told Theresa in February 2024.
“When you are killed with that kind of news and wears a jerk after a few days or a few weeks and you gather again and you realize what is important to you, you start moving forward,” he said how his health affected his decision to divorce. “And I hope that people now understand in retrospective that my decisions have had a huge impact and I think maybe as Theresa.”
Theresa does not agree with her ex -husband’s comment.
“It was never a discussion. I was very surprised to read this. He said that [about his reasoning] And said that he would imagine that this was also my reason. It was not for all my reasons, “He told us.” I must have been stuck with him thick. My husband of 42 years, Billy, was ill for the last five years of his life and I stayed with him and took care of him. He said, ‘I think it was heavy in my decision,’ I think, and ‘I will also imagine Theresa.’ So he just imagined that [because] There was no discussion. ,
According to Theresa, when he learned about Gerry’s disease, he did not experience any symptoms or yet passed through any treatment.
“And thank God,” he continued. “I am very happy for him. I want him to live a long, healthy, prosperous, amazing life. I listen to him. I don’t want him to be ill.”
So what happened between Gery and Theresa really? “I don’t know if I would ever say what was the reason for me,” he said.
“But I would say that it is really difficult to know someone at that time,” Theresa continued. “And then after the show was over, it was just a tornado of enthusiasm and we were stuck in everything and were interviewed and we were going for events. It was also a brief version. the BachelorWe had only one hour episodes. And so I was with her what you were watching on TV. There was no other accidental conversation, like, there can be there Graduate in heaven Where you can move out. ,
Despite the mention of BeepWhich will facilitate both traditional graduate and graduate contestants and members Golden Franchise, Theresa told We That she will not be on the spinoff show. She also said about the status of her current relationship, saying that she would like to keep things private.
“I think it’s one thing I learned – public investigation and especially to do something quick and then suddenly, what if it does not work?” He noted.
For her share, Gery announced earlier this month that she has a new girlfriend Lana SuttonAfter sharing the news with TMZ, he posted photos with Lana via Instagram, wrote, “I can’t believe how many people in Charleston recognized us and greeted us.”
Under the advice of Zone and Golden Bachelor Runner-Up Leslie FimaWhich he received by participating Grant alice‘Finale, Garry reached Theresa in March before going publicly.
“He brought both of them to say, ‘What should I do?” And Leslie said, “Of course, tell Theresa, she will be happy for you. ‘ And so the next day, he read me and I said, ‘Can you talk?’ ‘He said, seeing that he met on the phone. “He said,” I just want to tell you that I met someone. ” I said, ‘It’s amazing. He goes, ‘I was afraid to tell you.’ ‘Why would you be afraid? For example, if this was the way to find his person to go to the show, marry and then to find his person in this way, it was to happen. ,
Zone confirmed We Earlier this month, in an interview, he advised Gery to tell Theresa about Lana.
He said, “It is not very good to find her on social media or nothing is very good,” she said she knows “there is no love.”
“They are fine. Both of them are very happy with their lives and they did the right thing,” Joan said. “He did what was right for him and I respect it completely. They did not pull it and tried to work. They knew where their hearts were and they both went away and were good for Gerry. He found someone.”
Joan said that Gery was “really cute” about her new relationship. “I felt that he really needed someone in his life that he wanted to love again. And he loved him very much to give him. I think he really pigeon really, but I think it’s a great relationship that I can tell,” he said. “She is unprecedented. She talked about really important things, her cancer. And she is all on board and she likes,” Whatever year I have with you are perfect. ” He has really talked for a long time. ,
Theresa, for her share, concluded that she is too out of experience, learning how to post on social media – “I had to first post a double post” – to test my own flexibility.
“The show had a point where I really wanted to leave. I really did this time,” he said. “I wanted to melt in the floor. I wanted to disappear. I no longer wanted to be a part of it, but I lived firmly.”
In addition, despite how unexpected it may seem to everyone WeShe was there to make friends after all.
“I am Leslie’s best friend. We practically talk every day. I think I know her throughout my life,” she said about Gery’s runner-up. “But I regularly talk with most women in the show and it was great to find people who were in the same position that I was.”
The Golden Bachelor The franchise is expected to return to ABC with the lead Mail OwensAn NFL lineback-turn-vakil, later this year.
