'The Golden Bachelor' star Gerry Turner has revealed that he's been diagnosed with cancer. In a new interview with People magazine, the 72-year-old reflected on his divorce from Theresa Nist, whom he got engaged to on the finale of 'The Golden Bachelor' and got married to during a wedding broadcast on ABC in January 2024. Just three months after getting married, Turner and Nist announced their decision to divorce during a joint interview on Good Morning America.
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00:00The Golden Bachelor star Jerry Turner has revealed that he's been diagnosed with cancer.
00:06In a new interview with People Magazine, the 72-year-old reflected on his divorce from Teresa
00:10Nist, whom he got engaged to on the finale of The Golden Bachelor and got married to during
00:15a wedding broadcast on ABC in January 2024. Just three months after getting married,
00:20Turner and Nist announced their decision to divorce during a joint interview on Good Morning America.
00:25Though at the time they cited not being able to settle on a place to live together as the reason,
00:29for the first time Turner is revealing what else was going on behind the scenes. He said,
00:34As Teresa and I were trying very hard to find our lifestyle and where we were going to live
00:39and how we were going to make our life work, I was unfortunately diagnosed with cancer.
00:44Turner revealed he was diagnosed with a slow-growing bone marrow cancer. He told the
00:48magazine, Unfortunately, there's no cure for it, so that weighs heavily in every decision I make.
00:54Turner went on to say, I wanted my life to continue on as normal as possible,
00:58and that led me to believing that as normal as possible more meant spending time with my family,
01:03my two daughters, my two son-in-laws, my granddaughters, and the importance of finding
01:08the way with Teresa was still there, but it became less of a priority.
01:12As for the former couple's decision to divorce, Turner said,
01:15I hope that people understand in retrospect now that that had a huge bearing on my decisions,
01:20and I think probably Teresa's as well. He continued,
01:23Hopefully they'll look at things a little bit differently, that maybe it wasn't quite a rash,
01:28fast decision that people thought, that there was something else going on.
01:32Going forward, Turner said he's going to,
01:34Pack as much fun as I possibly can into my life and enjoy every moment.
01:38He also wished NIST,
01:39All of the good luck in the world that she finds everything she wants to.
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