Kaitlyn Bristowe is heartbroken The Golden Bachelor‘S Gerry Turner And Theresa Nist Amid the news, the couple has gone their separate ways.
“I’M SO SAD FOR YOU,” the Season 11 Bachelorette wrote via her Instagram Story on Friday, April 12, after a fan sent her a question asking what she thought Golden Bachelor Divorce.
Her response followed that of the couple Good morning America interview that took place This Morning in which they announced their decision to end their marriage just three months after their televised wedding. Gerry, 72, and Theresa, 70, explained that while they still love each other, their living situation outside the country was the main reason for their split.
“Theresa and I have had a number of heartfelt conversations,” Gerry shared during Friday’s broadcast. “We took a close look at our living situation and collectively came to the conclusion that it was time for us to dissolve our marriage.”
He continued: “What strikes me most in our conversations is how committed we both are to our families. When we look at these situations, I think it is best for the happiness of each of us to live separately.”
On Friday, April 12th, Us weekly confirmed that Turner had filed for dissolution of their marriage in his hometown of Petersburg, Indiana, citing the same day as the date of their separation. He cited the “irretrievable failure” of their marriage as the reason for the separation.
Earlier this month, Us confirmed that Golden Bachelor The stars weren’t living under the same roof and were still living in different states after saying “I do” in January. While Gerry returned to Indiana, Theresa remained in New Jersey.
An insider explained Us At the time, the couple had no immediate plans to turn their lives around, in part because Theresa was returning to her job as a senior compliance officer at an East Coast financial advisory firm. Instead, the source explained that the couple managed their long-distance relationship by making time to visit each other frequently.
While 38-year-old Bristowe felt sorry for Gerry and Theresa, Bachelor in paradise‘S Ashley Iaconetti revealed that she wasn’t shocked when she heard they were breaking up.
Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist celebrated their journey to the Golden Bachelor with a star-studded wedding before calling it quits for good. The couple tied the knot on ABC’s special “The Golden Wedding” in January 2024. In the presence of the couple’s family, friends and more than 50 members of Bachelor Nation, fans watched as Gerry and Theresa passed by […]
“I think a lot of them Good morning America The interview was stupid because you don’t say, “We’re still in love with each other” and then get a divorce. You just don’t,” Ashley, 35, wrote via Instagram Story on Friday, April 12. “If it’s a distance thing – especially at their age – living in Indiana, living in New Jersey, visiting each other twice a month… Be in love, be married, but communicate with each other, I don’t buy that [it]. I don’t think the move is the reason they divorced three months later.”
The former couple met and fell in love on the first season of The Golden Bachelor, which ended with them getting engaged in the series’ finale episode in November 2023. They married two months later in front of ABC cameras and expressed that they dreamed of eventually settling together in South Carolina. It was the second marriage for both of them.