Theresa Nist Comments On Gerry Turner’s Cancer Diagnosis

Turner and Nist grew to become engaged throughout the finale of the inaugural season of “The Golden Bachelor,” which aired in November 2023. Their love story continued with a reside 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 concerning their selection of residence finally led to their separation.

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 not wished to speak about till now,” he informed PEOPLE Magazine. “I believe it is time, additionally as a result of it in all probability will clear up plenty of thriller round what occurred again in February, March and April.”

“As Theresa and I have been making an attempt very arduous to seek out our way of life and the place we have been going to reside and the way we have been going to make our life work, I used to be sadly identified with most cancers,” he added.

In accordance with the Mayo Clinic, this uncommon illness causes white blood cells to rework into most cancers cells, which accumulate within the bone marrow—the spongy tissue inside bones answerable for producing blood cells. “Sadly, there is not any remedy for it. In order that weighs closely in each resolution I make,” Turner stated. “It was like 10 tons of concrete have been simply dropped on me. And I used to be a bit in denial for some time, I did not need to admit to it.”

“It was after I visited Gerry in Indiana [sometime in March],” Nist informed PEOPLE. “That is devastating information, actually. I used to be extraordinarily upset.” Regardless of his prognosis, she stated, “He informed 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 most effective 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 should be the kind of most cancers that won’t have an effect on his life and that he’ll reside to be a really wholesome outdated age.”

Whereas Turner speculated that the prognosis performed an element in their divorce, Nist says in any other case.

“[It] wasn’t an element within the ending of the connection, at the least not for me,” she stated. “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 gap, however that wasn’t the one half. That is actually all I’ll say.”

Previously, Theresa Nist has emphasised that 4 weeks is “a really brief 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 simply’re with that particular person every single day anyway. There have been solely sure instances that I used to be with him one-on-one,” she stated on the time.

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 house. He was promoting his house,” she stated 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 received again house, he sort of modified his thoughts,” she informed PEOPLE a number of months in the past. “He stated, ‘No, let’s do it six weeks right here and 6 weeks there.’ And I did not need to try this. I actually wished a house collectively.”

“I wished 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.”

In accordance with Nist, the couple checked out properties “simply nearly.” “We by no means received there, and it by no means occurred,” she revealed. “So that may’ve been a factor to do in another way, to truly 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 have been properties backwards and forwards and we might by no means agree on one. After which the emails simply stopped, [and] we weren’t trying anymore,” she continued.