Theresa Nist Breaks Silence on Gerry Turner Cancer Diagnosis

Theresa Nist has spoken for the first time since the world learned the following sad news:

Gerry Turner has cancer.

Gerry Turner actually has cannot be cured cancer.

The first Golden Bachelor leader made this admission a few days ago to People Magazine, in part to help “clear up a lot of the mystery of what happened in February, March and April.”

This is a reference for Turner and Nist split up just a few months after getting married on national television, a development that took the citizens of Bachelor Nation with extreme sadness and surprise.

But it makes more sense now, doesn’t it?

“I want to live my life as long as possible, and that leads me to believe that being as normal as possible means spending more time with my family, my two daughters, my two sons-in-law, my granddaughter,” Turner said. in making the announcement.

“And the importance of finding a way with Theresa is still there, but it’s become less of a priority.”

Indeed, Nist was Turner’s wife.

But the reality is… they don’t know each other at all it well

Nist, meanwhile, also spoke to People about his unfortunate diagnosis and how it impacted his relationship with Gerry Turner.

“This was when I visited Gerry in Indiana (some time in March),” Nist told this outlet told about cancer. “It’s terrible news, really. I’m very upset.”

To be clear, Turner has been diagnosed with a type of bone marrow cancer.

Continue Nist:

“He is a very positive person and so am I, and I know he will do his best to make this a positive experience.

“And I have every faith that it will work out that way, that it will be a type of cancer that won’t affect his life and that he will live to be a healthy old age.”

Turner previously said his ex-wife was “overwhelmed” by the news, which is understandable.

The former finalized their divorce in June.

Turner and Nist were engaged in the final episode of the first season of The Golden Bachelor, which aired in November 2023.

They exchanged vows in January.

“When you get hit with news like that and the shock comes after a few days or a few weeks and you regroup and you realize what’s important to you, that’s where you start to move forward,” Turner said of the split from Nist.

Theresa said she and Gerry don’t talk much anymore, but she doesn’t seem to have any regrets.

“I wish him the best and I know that he is in a difficult situation and that good things will come to him,” she said. concluded to People.

“And I wish him a long and healthy, prosperous life, and I hope he finds his person. I want him to be very happy, and I just wish him the best of everything in the world.