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

Theresa Nist claimed this week that ex-husband Gerry Turner as soon as stated he would dismember her physique and put it in a shed throughout their short-lived romance.

“We had been taking a stroll round this lake referred to as Fairly Lake, and we bought to the top of it. And he stated — that is actually weird — he stated, ‘Do you see that shed up there?'” she stated on the Nov. 4 episode of the “Dear Shandy” podcast.

“I stated, ‘Sure.’ He stated, ‘Properly, that is the place I’ll conceal your physique after I kill you and dismember you, and he did not giggle. I stated, “Properly, if this was his concept of a joke, then it was fairly darkish humor.”

“I simply felt like there was animosity in that assertion underlying it,” she stated. “Perhaps if he might have gotten rid of me by some means.”

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She stated she did not consider he really killed her.

“No, I do not assume that was true. It isn’t true, but it surely simply spoke to an underlying feeling about me,” she stated.

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

Theresa Nist addressed Gerry Turner’s claims about their marriage in a brand new interview. (MEGA/GC Photographs; Eric McCandless/Disney by way of Getty Photographs)

Nist, who married Turner in a televised ceremony in January 2024 however divorced three months later, additionally opened up about her ex’s bombshell memoir, “Golden Years,” and defined why a few of his reminiscences and statements left her “extraordinarily upset.”

Nist stated Turner’s guide tells tales about them that did not occur fairly as she remembered.

“You probably did me no favors by marrying a lady you did not need to marry,” she stated, addressing her assertion to Turner. ‘You should not have carried out that. You must have referred to as off the marriage. It did not matter that we had been on TV. This was our life. You must have stopped it.

“He regretted it, after which he felt dangerous about marrying me,” she continued. “So he actually tried to make it work, and each little factor I did that he did not assume was proper, he would lash out at me.

‘Should you actually wished to be there [runner-up] Leslie [Fhima]I’d have welcomed it. I’d have supported you. I’d have been so completely satisfied.”

In his memoirs, Turner admits that it was tough to just accept how rapidly issues fell aside. He wrote that he had “rushed to a marriage [he] did not consider in it” and later discovered himself “in a really darkish place.”

“Properly, I admit it was an enormous mistake, but it surely’s at all times simple to have 20/20 hindsight,” Turner instructed Fox Information Digital forward of the guide’s Nov. 4 launch. “I feel I damage Theresa, I damage my household. There have been a number of issues that I used to be so imperfect at. … There wasn’t a single flash second the place I spotted the wedding was over. It was a gradual march to the top.”

Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist married on January 4, 2024. The ceremony was captured in a TV particular, ‘The Golden Marriage ceremony’. (John & Joseph Images/Disney by way of Getty Photographs)

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

Turner filed for divorce three months later in his hometown of Petersburg, Indiana, citing “irreconcilable variations.” His request got here simply hours after the separation of the couple announcement on “Good Morning America.”

“Thérèsa and I’ve had a variety of heart-to-heart conversations,” he stated. “We have now taken take a look at our dwelling state of affairs and have come to the mutual conclusion that it’s time to dissolve our marriage. The issues that stand out to me most in our conversations are how dedicated we each are to our households. So we take a look at these conditions, and I feel we really feel that it’s best for the happiness of all of us to dwell individually.”

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 by way of Getty Photographs)

In the course of the podcast, Nist admitted that she had hoped to maintain quiet in regards to the guide and their earlier marriage out of respect for Turner and his household.

“I did not need to say these items. I simply felt compelled,” she stated.

“It was actually a case of, if you do not have something good to say, simply do not say something,” she added. ‘I did not need to damage him. I by no means need to damage one other human being. I did not need to make something dangerous for him, and I did not need to make it dangerous in case he wished to seek out another person.

“However now I imply he wrote a guide and stated issues. And now I am unable to ignore it anymore.’

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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 essential for him to dwell life to the fullest after being recognized with most cancers final yr.

“I made a decision I wasn’t going to say ‘no’ to something,” Turner stated of his change in perspective. “It doesn’t matter what occurred, any journey, any alternative to have enjoyable, something I might do, I took it on. As a result of I felt like, even earlier than the prognosis, I used to be beginning to get to the purpose of the sofa the place it was a bit of extra enjoyable to take a seat at dwelling and do nothing than to exit and struggle no matter problem journey introduced. And that has actually been an enormous change for me.”

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

And Sutton, Turner stated, has a method of creating the whole lot higher.

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“She has extra vitality than me,” he stated. “She wants much less sleep than I do. I actually assume she’s a extra logical thinker than I’m, which I feel is lots. However the good factor is that we predict the identical method and strategy issues so we do not have battle once we’re making an attempt to make selections and so forth. We typically find yourself in the identical place, typically not the identical method, however normally the identical place.

“She’s taking an image with Lana now [life] even higher. It is so good to have a associate who understands and thinks with you 100% and so forth. So it took me some time to get up to now, however I am fairly pleased with the place I’m now.”

The couple introduced their engagement in October.

Stephanie Nolasco of Fox Information Digital contributed to this report.