Theresa Nist Comments On Gerry Turner’s Cancer Diagnosis

Turner and Nist turned engaged in the course of the finale of the inaugural season of “The Golden Bachelor,” which aired in November 2023. Their love story continued with a stay televised marriage ceremony in January 2024, the place they formally tied the knot.

Nevertheless, after simply three months of marriage, the couple introduced their choice 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 in the end 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 subject that I have not wished to speak about till now,” he advised PEOPLE Magazine. “I feel it is time, additionally as a result of it in all probability will clear up a variety of thriller round what occurred again in February, March and April.”

“As Theresa and I had been making an attempt very arduous to search out our life-style and the place we had been going to stay and the way we had been going to make our life work, I used to be sadly identified with most cancers,” he added.

In line 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 accountable for producing blood cells. “Sadly, there is not any treatment for it. In order that weighs closely in each choice I make,” Turner mentioned. “It was like 10 tons of concrete had been simply dropped on me. And I used to be a bit in denial for some time, I did not wish to admit to it.”

“It was after I visited Gerry in Indiana [sometime in March],” Nist advised PEOPLE. “That is devastating information, actually. I used to be extraordinarily upset.” Regardless of his analysis, she mentioned, “He advised me although, that it was the kind of most cancers that he would more than likely outlive.”

“He is a really optimistic particular person and I’m too, and I do know that he’ll do the perfect that he can to make this a optimistic expertise,” she continued. “And I’ve each religion that’s going to work out that method, that it will be the kind of most cancers that won’t have an effect on his life and that he’ll stay to be a really wholesome previous age.”

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

“[It] wasn’t an element within the ending of the connection, a minimum of not for me,” she mentioned. “If that was one thing on his half, perhaps, I do not know. However no, that did not issue into ending the connection. A part of it was the space, however that wasn’t the one half. That is actually all I’ll say.”

Up to now, Theresa Nist has emphasised that 4 weeks is “a really quick 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 daily anyway. There have been solely sure occasions that I used to be with him one-on-one,” she mentioned 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 dwelling. He was promoting his dwelling,” she mentioned 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 obtained again dwelling, he type of modified his thoughts,” she advised PEOPLE a number of months in the past. “He mentioned, ‘No, let’s do it six weeks right here and 6 weeks there.’ And I did not wish 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 line with Nist, the couple checked out properties “simply nearly.” “We by no means obtained there, and it by no means occurred,” she revealed. “So that may’ve been a factor to do otherwise, to truly go to South Carolina and go see issues and see them in particular person as an alternative of simply taking a look at them on-line as a result of that wasn’t sufficient.”

“I feel it simply petered out that we had been taking a look at 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.