Theresa Nist fires back at Golden Bachelor Gerry Turners claim they divorced over his cancer

Theresa Nist and Gerry Turner’s journey came to an end — but not because of his health battle.The reality star who found love with Turner on Season 1 of “The Golden Bachelor” revealed that the pair “absolutely” didn’t split over his cancer diagnosis.“It was a zero factor, zero.Absolutely.

I was just so surprised that he even said that,” Nist said on Thursday’s episode of “The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast.” “I knew about the cancer a long time ago.And the way Gary presented it to me was that, ‘The doctor said that I’m going to die of old age before this cancer gets to me.'”“He bluffed it off, like it really wasn’t that important,” she continued.

“And he had no symptoms, and he still doesn’t.So we never had a conversation that said, ‘Oh my gosh, you’re sick.

I can’t stay with you now.I have to leave.’ That never happened.”Turner and Nist first got engaged at the end of 2023 on the show before saying “I do” on a TV special in January 2024.

But by April of that year, the exes announced in an interview with “Good Morning America” that they were divorcing.In December 2024, Turner revealed he had been diagnosed with a blood cell cancer, Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia, claiming it played into their split.The reality star also noted that he and Nist each wanted to live close to their families in different states.“When you are hit with that kind of news and the shock wears off 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 told People.“And I hope that people understand in retrospect now that that had a huge bearing on my decisions and I think probably Theresa’s as well.”“They interviewed him the day before they interviewed me,” Nist continued on the podcast.

“And right before my interview, they contacted me, and they said, ‘Hey, we want to talk to you right now, because Gerry just came...