Theresa Nist slams ex Gerry Turner’s ‘Golden Bachelor’ memoir claims

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Theresa Nist claimed this week that ex-husband Gerry Turner as soon as mentioned he was going to cut up her physique and put it in a shed throughout their short-lived romance.

"We took a stroll round this lake known as Fairly Lake and we have been coming to the top of it and he mentioned — that is actually weird — He mentioned, ‘You see that shed up there?’" she mentioned on the Nov. 4 episode of the " Dear Shandy" podcast.

She then alleged, "I mentioned, ‘Yeah.’ He mentioned, ‘Nicely, that’s the place I’m going to cover your physique after I kill you and chop you up, and he wasn't laughing. I mentioned, 'Nicely, if this was his thought of a joke, that was fairly darkish humor.'"

"I simply felt like there was animosity in that assertion that was underlying," she mentioned. "Like, possibly if he may have gotten rid of me in some way." She mentioned she did not consider he would have really killed her. "No, I don’t suppose that was true. It’s not true, but it surely simply spoke to an underlying feeling about me."

Fox Information Digital has reached out to a rep for Turner for remark.

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Theresa Nist spoke out about Gerry Turner's claims about their marriage in a brand new interview. (MEGA/GC Photographs; Eric McCandless/Disney through Getty Photographs)

Nist — who married Turner in January 2024 in a televised ceremony, however then divorced three months later — additionally opened up about her ex's bombshell memoir, "Golden Years," and defined why a few of his recollections and statements made her "extraordinarily upset."

Nist, who mentioned Turner's ebook recounts tales about them that did not fairly occur the way in which she recalled, argued that Turner did her "no favors" by stepping into a wedding he knew he did not need.

"You probably did me no favors by marrying a girl that you simply didn't wish to marry," she mentioned, directing her assertion in direction of Turner. "You shouldn't. It's best to have known as off the marriage. Irrespective of that we have been on TV, that did not matter. This was our lives. It's best to have stopped it."

"He regretted it, after which he resented that he was married to me," she continued. "So, he actually tried to make it work and any little factor that I did that he thought wasn't proper, he lashed out at me."

She added, "For those who actually needed to be with [runner-up] Leslie [Fhima], I'd have applauded it. I'd have supported you. I'd have been so joyful."

In his memoir, Turner admits it was arduous to simply accept how rapidly issues fell aside. He wrote that he’d "rushed into a marriage [he] didn’t consider in" and later discovered himself "in a really darkish place."

"Nicely, I do admit that it was a monumental mistake, but it surely’s at all times simple to have 20/20 hindsight," Turner instructed Fox Information Digital forward of the ebook's launch on Nov. 4. "I feel that I damage Theresa, I damage my household. There have been a number of issues that I used to be so imperfect about. ... There was nobody flash-bang second the place I realized the marriage was over . It was a gradual march towards the top."

Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist married on Jan. 4, 2024. The ceremony was chronicled in a TV particular titled "The Golden Marriage ceremony." (John & Joseph Pictures/Disney through Getty Photographs)

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Turner and Nist married in January 2024 in a televised ceremony after Turner proposed within the season finale of the ABC actuality relationship sequence.

Turner filed for divorce in his hometown of Petersburg, Indiana, three months later, citing "irreconcilable variations." His submitting got here a number of hours after the couple's split announcement on "Good Morning America."

"Theresa and I've had a variety of heart-to-heart conversations," he mentioned. "We’ve appeared intently at our residing conditions, and we’ve type of come to the conclusion mutually that it’s time for us to dissolve our marriage. The issues that strike me essentially the most in our conversations (is) how devoted each of us are to our households. So, we have a look at these conditions, and I feel we simply really feel prefer it’s greatest for the happiness of every of us to dwell aside."

The duo finalized their divorce in June 2024.

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Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist finalized their divorce in June 2024. (John Fleenor/Disney through Getty Photographs)

In the course of the podcast, Nist admitted she had hoped to stay silent in regards to the ebook and their earlier marriage out of respect for Turner and his household.

"I did not wish to be saying any of these items, I simply felt compelled," she mentioned.

"It was actually a matter of, when you've got nothing good to say simply do not say something," she added. "I did not wish to damage him. I by no means wish to damage one other human being. I did not wish to make something unhealthy for him, and I did not wish to make it unhealthy in case he needed to search out another person."

"However now, I imply, he is written a ebook, and he mentioned issues, and now I can not ignore it."

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In July, Turner opened as much as Fox Information Digital about his new love, Lana Sutton, and defined why it is necessary for him to dwell life to the fullest after being identified with most cancers final yr.

"I made a decision that I wasn't going to say ‘no’ to something," Turner mentioned of his change in perspective. "Something that got here alongside, any journey, any probability to have enjoyable, something that I may do, I used to be going to take it on. As a result of I felt myself, even earlier than the prognosis, I used to be beginning to get to that sofa potato level the place it was just a little nicer to sit down at residence and do nothing than exit and combat no matter problem it was to journey. And that is actually been fairly a change for me."

Gerry Turner and Lana Sutton introduced their engagement in October. (Gerry Turner Instagram)

And Sutton, mentioned Turner, has a means of creating all the pieces higher.

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"She has extra vitality than I do," he mentioned. "She wants much less sleep than I do. I actually suppose she's a extra logical thinker than I'm, which I feel that is so much. However the good half is we expect and we method issues very equally, so we have no conflicts as we're making an attempt to make choices and so forth. We typically arrive on the identical place, generally not the identical means, however often the identical place."

"With Lana now within the image, she makes [life] even higher. It is so good to have a associate that understands and is in it with you 100% and so forth. So it took me some time to get thus far, however I am fairly proud of the place I'm."