Jerry Turner doesn’t consider himself divorced after Teresa Nest split
Jerry Turner doesn’t consider himself divorced after Teresa Nest split
By Ryan Hudgins | Published: 2025-10-28 21:35:00 | Source: Us Weekly
Former Golden Bachelor Jerry Turner He did not embrace the idea of divorce after his separation from her Teresa Nest.
“I don’t want to seem disrespectful at all,” Turner, 74, said on the Tuesday, October 28, episode of the show. “I don’t think I’m divorced.” “Bachelor Happy Hour” When asked how he responded to criticism that he moved too quickly with his engagement Lana Sutton.
Cohost susan knowles, For her part, she asked: “What marriage?”
“It was such a short time, and it was, you know, in an artificial environment, where I had to stop myself and say, ‘Yes, you know what? I’m divorced. It’s not like I’m this guy who was married for 43 years and then did nothing,” Turner continued. “I’m divorced.”
Turner finished the first season of 2023 Golden Bachelor He was engaged to Nest, 72, and married her the following year. Months after exchanging vows during a televised ceremony, Turner and Nest shared their decision to resign.
More than a year later, Turner is scheduled to publish his memoirs, The golden years (from November 4), where he details his experience as The Bachelor. Turner claimed in the book that he told the second runner-up Faith Martin That he felt “trapped” before marrying Nest. While recalling the moment during an exclusive interview with us weekly, Turner shared that he “felt like he was doing the right thing” by staying married.
“I wasn’t thrilled about it,” Turner explained in his book. we Digital cover story. “A lot of the book is about how I felt at certain moments, and that’s just a temporary reality… I had other thoughts, but I don’t think they were any more exaggerated than anyone’s normal second thoughts.”
Meanwhile, Nest shared a statement with we She wishes the situation had been handled differently.
Bachelor Gold star Teresa Nist talks about her ex-husband Jerry Turner’s claims that his cancer diagnosis played a role in their split — and why she’s nervous about his new book. Nest (71 years old) said during a press conference on Thursday, June 6 (…) “The worker was zero. Zero. I was so surprised that he said that.”
“It makes me very sad to think that he felt so empty and trapped,” she said. “I wish he would have said something and just finished it. But at least now I understand why he hurt me so many times. I will say this. People who live in a glass house should not throw stones. I wish him all the best.”
Turner has since moved in with Sutton, who announced their engagement earlier this month. While weighing in on the idea that his marriage to Sutton was “too soon” after his divorce, Turner noted that he didn’t think of it that way.
“The comment that it was premature never came to me. You know, that question was never asked,” he said during Tuesday’s episode. “There are some things that are timeless. And I think one of them is that when you meet the right person, you don’t even think about where they fit in the timeline. But only when it’s right, it’s right.”
Meanwhile, Sutton echoed Turner’s comments and noted that her children could sense the love between the couple early on.
“They both said they knew from the beginning that we made a good couple,” Sutton shared of her children. “They said they were the same way. They said, ‘When you meet someone and they have those feelings, you know it.’ “We’ve known that with you guys too from the beginning,” they said. So, no, for them, they were like, no, it’s not too early. It’s not so quick because you can only know when you’ve met the right person.
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