Faith Martin Told Gerry Turner He Could Call Off His Wedding
Admittedly, Gerry’s feet were still feeling quite icy when he shared a chat with his first impression rose recipient Faith at the rehearsal dinner.
“Sitting there, I poured my heart out to her,” he detailed. “‘Going through with this wedding is the wrong thing to do,’ I said. ‘I wish I wasn’t where I am, but I have no way out. I’m completely trapped.’ Faith poked a finger into my chest and said, ‘What the hell are you doing? If you know in your heart this isn’t right, why are you going forward with it? That isn’t you.'”
And yet it was. While Faith reminded him he didn’t have to walk down the aisle, “My need to please everyone, ingrained in me from childhood, was too strong to release its destructive grip,” he explained of why he still decided to exchange those vows. “I could not let down my girls, Theresa’s family, the cast who had traveled for the event, and everyone who had worked relentlessly to put on a magical wedding. Most of all, I couldn’t let down Theresa, whom I still loved dearly even as I worried about the pace of our relationship.”
Though if you ask her, she’d rather have been a jilted bride than a divorcée.
“It makes me very sad to think that he felt empty and trapped,” she told Us Weekly. “I wish he had said something and just ended it.”