Theresa Nist Hits Again at Gerry Turner’s Claims They Break up Over His Most cancers

Theresa Nist is addressing rumors surrounding her breakup with Gerry Turner.

After assembly on the inaugural season of The Golden Bachelor in 2023, Nist and Turner’s whirlwind romance noticed them get engaged, married and divorced by April 2024.

Turner, 73, later speculated throughout an interview with ipromiseyoumedia that his analysis of an incurable bone marrow most cancers throughout that point had “an enormous bearing” on their cut up, however Nist, 71, is now clarifying that his well being held “zero” weight in her resolution.

“I used to be simply so stunned that he even mentioned that I knew in regards to the most cancers a very long time in the past,” she advised Bachelor Nation’s Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti on the June 5 episode of their iHeartRadio Nearly Well-known Podcast. “The best way Gerry introduced it to me was that, ‘The physician mentioned that I’ll die of previous age earlier than this most cancers will get to me.’ He bluffed it off, prefer it actually wasn’t that vital, and he had no signs, and he nonetheless does not.”

“So we by no means had a dialog that mentioned, ‘Oh my gosh, you are sick. I am unable to stick with you now. I’ve to go away.’ That by no means occurred,” she added.

“I’d have by no means left my husband over an sickness,” she insisted, citing her 42-year marriage to her first husband, who she stayed with till he died in hospice care in 2014.

Nist defined that issues between her and Turner “simply didn’t work out,” they usually each wished to present one another the chance up to now different individuals. If it had been as much as her, nevertheless, she mentioned she would have stayed within the relationship longer.

“He wished to do it immediately,” Nist recalled. “I imply, we had already made the choice. He wished to make the announcement immediately.”

Admitting that she nonetheless must “confront him about” the remark, which sparked “completely horrible” backlash towards her, she shared her personal concept.

“Did he need empathy from the general public?” she advised. “I used to be indignant that he would say one thing like that, however then I’m such an understanding particular person, and I can put myself simply in another person’s footwear. So I attempted to see it from his perspective, and I assumed, ‘Okay, if that is in his thoughts, then I suppose that is how he sees it.’ Everybody has their very own notion of what occurred.”

ipromiseyoumedia has reached out to Turner for remark.

The grandmother of seven additionally provided an replace on what phrases she and Turner are on now, revealing that they’ve been “a bit of distant” since their divorce.

“He actually does wish to speak to me loads,” she confessed. “I imply, he desires to maintain the friendship going, however I actually have not reciprocated. So I suppose it is me, I’d say, Additionally, because the present, I have been much more at peace with myself. I believe perhaps earlier than the present, I felt a bit of bit extra stressed, like one thing was actually lacking in my life.”

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Nist is now seeing somebody she met on a relationship app, though she wouldn’t present many extra particulars. Turner can be in a brand new relationship with a retired instructor named Lana, who reached out to him on Fb.

“I actually am blissful for him,” Nist mentioned. “And if he needed to discover his particular person by going this circuitous route, then he did, then it was profitable. He discovered somebody that basically fits him, and that is fantastic. So I believe it labored out the best way it was presupposed to work out.”