As the feud between Golden Bachelor stars Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist continues to heat up amid the release of the former leading man’s memoir, Nist is making a shocking new claim.
During a recent interview on the Dear Shandy podcast, Nist recalled a specific conversation she had with her ex-husband, which she feels represented his “underlying feeling” of “animosity” towards her.
“I finally went to his house and we took a walk around this lake called Pretty Lake and we were coming to the end of it and he said — this is really bizarre — He said, ‘You see that shed up there?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ He said, ‘Well, that’s where I’m going to hide your body after I kill you and chop you up,’” she claimed. “And he wasn’t laughing. I said, ‘Well, if this was his idea of a joke, that was pretty dark humor.’”
Nist added, “I just felt like there was animosity in that statement that was underlying. Like, maybe if he could have gotten rid of me somehow. I don’t think he would have killed me. No, I don’t think that was true. It’s not true, but it just spoke to an underlying feeling about me.”
The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Turner’s rep for comment.
Though Turner and Nist left the first season of ABC’s The Golden Bachelor engaged in 2023 and tied the knot in a televised ceremony a few months later, their love story was short-lived. In 2024, only a few months after their nuptials, the pair announced they were divorcing.
“Theresa and I have had a number of heart-to-heart conversations, and we’ve looked closely at our situation, our living situation, so forth and — and we’ve kind of come to the conclusion mutually that it’s probably time for us to — dissolve our marriage,” Turner said, sitting next to Nist, in an interview with Good Morning America in April 2024.
However, in Turner’s new book, Golden Years: What I’ve Learned From Love, Loss, and Reality TV, new details have emerged about what really went down between the couple, at least from the former Golden Bachelor’s perspective. In the memoir, he reportedly claims that he had doubts about their relationship prior to their wedding and that a lack of intimacy led to their divorce.
On Dear Shandy, Nist said she’s been “extremely upset” about what she’s read in his memoir. “Anytime I talk about anything that I read that he said about any interaction we had, I just go, ‘That’s not how it was,’” she admitted, noting that she never intended to comment about their relationship until now.
“I never planned on saying anything about what happened between us. So many people asked me and I would just say, ‘You can’t really know a person in the amount of time, like in four weeks,’ and I would leave it at that,” she added. “Honestly, it was really a matter of if you have nothing good to say, just don’t say anything. And I didn’t want to hurt him.”
