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In the case of Gerry Turner, Theresa Nist has actually been by way of it.
Sure, we bolded and italicized that phrase on objective.
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 obtained divorced from him… after which dealt with Turner’s cancer diagnosis.
It’s been fairly the journey.
One more twist was added to this journey a number of days in the past, too, once we discovered that Turner has a girlfriend.
“I don’t wish to remorse something,” Nist told Us Weekly through Zoom this week of her romance with the first-ever Golden Bachelor.
“But it surely’s not that they had been saying to us, ‘Okay, we’re providing you this wedding ceremony and you are able to do it six months, a yr, two years, everytime you wish to.’
“It was now or by no means. The choice needed to be made rapidly. And we stated, ‘OK, if we’re actually going to undergo with this and we’re gonna get married, if we do it this manner, we will get the marriage of our desires. It’ll be spectacular.’ It was a fast resolution.”
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 marriage was over.
At this level, wanting again on it, Nist says the connection feels prefer it happened in “one other world,” though it was a world she embraced on the time.
“I used to be in love,” she now says. “I actually believed this was eternally and for the remainder of my life. All of us thought that. I imply, hearken to our wedding ceremony vows and what my daughter stated and what his daughter stated. We really, really believed it.”
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 rationale was for me,” she says.
“However I’ll say that it’s actually laborious to know someone in that period of time.
“After which after the present was over, it was only a whirlwind of pleasure and we had been caught up in every part and there have been interviews and we had been going to occasions. It was additionally an abbreviated model of The Bachelor. We solely had one-hour episodes.
“And so the period of time that I used to be with him was what you noticed on TV. There was no different informal interplay, like, there may be on Bachelor in Paradise the place you possibly can hang around.”
Turner, for his half, confirmed earlier this month that he has a brand new girlfriend named Lana Sutton.
After sharing the information with TMZ, he posted photographs with Lana through Instagram, writing:
“I can’t imagine how many individuals in Charleston acknowledged us and wished us the most effective.”
