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In relation to Gerry Turner, Theresa Nist has actually been by it.
Sure, we bolded and italicized that phrase on goal.
Nist went on The Golden Bachelor and competed for Turner’s affection… after which accepted his proposal… after which married him on tv… after which acquired divorced from him… after which handled Turner’s most cancers prognosis.
It’s been fairly the journey.
Theresa Nist got here out on prime of The Golden Bachelor. (ABC)
One more twist was added to this journey a number of days in the past, too, after we realized that Turner has a girlfriend.
“I don’t like to regret anything,” Nist advised Us Weekly by way of Zoom this week of her romance with the first-ever Golden Bachelor.
“However it’s not that they have been saying to us, ‘Okay, we’re providing you this marriage ceremony and you are able to do it six months, a yr, two years, everytime you need to.’
“It was now or never. The decision had to be made quickly. And we said, ‘OK, if we’re really going to go through with this and we’re gonna get married, if we do it this way, we can get the wedding of our dreams. It’ll be spectacular.’ It was a quick decision.”
Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist didn’t make it as a pair. (ABC)
Turner proposed to Nist throughout the November 2023 Bachelor finale. They exchanged in entrance of ABC cameras in January 2024.
Simply three months later, the wedding was over.
At this level, wanting again on it, Nist says the connection feels prefer it came about in “another world,” though it was a world she embraced on the time.
“I was in love,” she now says. “I really believed this was forever and for the rest of my life. We all thought that. I mean, listen to our wedding vows and what my daughter said and what his daughter said. We truly, truly believed it.”
Theresa Nist shares amusing right here with Gerry Turner. (ABC)
No, Theresa advised the aforementioned tabloid. The couple didn’t cut up up attributable to Turner’s most cancers… nor as a result of they couldn’t determine the place to dwell.
“I don’t know if I’ll ever say what the reason was for me,” she says.
“However I’ll say that it’s actually onerous to know any person in that period of time.
“After which after the present was over, it was only a whirlwind of pleasure and we have been caught up in all the things and there have been interviews and we have been going to occasions. It was additionally an abbreviated model of The Bachelor. We solely had one-hour episodes.
“And so the amount of time that I was with him was what you saw on TV. There was no other casual interaction, like, there might be on Bachelor in Paradise where you can hang out.”
Theresa Nist sits with Gerry Turner on this scene from The Golden Bachelor. (Picture Credit score: ABC)
Turner, for his half, confirmed earlier this month that he has a brand new girlfriend named Lana Sutton.
“I can’t believe how many people in Charleston recognized us and wished us the best.”
