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Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist are calling it quits.
The former “Golden Bachelor” couple appeared in a joint interview Friday on “Good Morning America” and shared the news that they are divorcing just months after they wed in January.
As Turner explained, “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.”
Theresa Nist and Gerry Turner are divorcing three months after their January wedding. (Eric McCandless/Disney via Getty Images)
Nist added, “We have received so much love and support from so many people who watched ‘The Golden Bachelor,’ and I don’t think we can tell you how many people told us that it gave them so much hope. We want none of that to change for anybody.”
“The Golden Bachelor,” a new entry to the “Bachelor” franchise that focuses on older people finding love, premiered last September. The season lasted for 10 episodes, and in that time, viewers saw Turner fall in love with Nist.
He proposed to her in the season finale, and in January, they were married in a televised wedding.
Nist acknowledged that “the plan” was to make their marriage work, but the distance between their families made things difficult.
Theresa Nist and Gerry Turner were married in a televised wedding ceremony. (Getty Images)
“The thing that strikes me the most in our conversations, it’s been how dedicated both of us are to our families,” Nist said. “So we look at these situations and I think we just feel like it’s best for the happiness of each of us to, to live apart.”
Turner is based in Indiana, while Nist lives and works in New Jersey. Earlier this month, TMZ and other outlets reported that Turner and Nist were still living in separate homes after getting married.
Originally, the couple planned to move to Charleston, South Carolina. Turner has said that he had always wanted to live in the city, and Nist has a child that lives in the area, but the plan ultimately fell through.
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Theresa Nist and Gerry Turner say that they still love each other despite ending their relationship. (John Fleenor/Disney via Getty Images)
“We looked at homes in South Carolina, we considered New Jersey, and we just looked at home after home, but we never got to the point where we made that decision,” Nist explained on “Good Morning America.”
They also made it clear that the issue was not that they had fallen out of love, with Turner insisting, “I still love this person. There’s no doubt in my mind, I still am in love with her. I root for her every day.”
Nist agreed, saying, “Yeah, I still love him.”
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As for their wedding rings, she shared that they would be returning them – she joked, “I think that’s the rule.”
Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist are both widowers with two children. (ABC)
“But you know what?” Turner added. “We don’t have to give back the memories.”
Nist also briefly addressed the controversy surrounding Turner’s love life after his first wife died. He said on the show that he hadn’t dated since he began dating his wife when they were teenagers, but women came forward to refute that claim. One woman told The Hollywood Reporter that he’d started flirting with her months after his wife passed away, and that they lived together before he kicked her out after she gained 10 pounds.
“Gerry had already discussed that with me,” Nist clarified. “He had explained it to me before the report was ever released, so we were good with that. That didn’t play into it.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to Turner for comment.
Both Turner and Nist were married prior to their appearance on “The Golden Bachelor.” Turner was married to his high school sweetheart, Toni, from 1974 until her death in 2017, and Nist was married to William “Bill” Nist, for 42 years, before he passed away in 2014.
Fox News Digital’s Lori A. Bashian contributed to this report.
Emily Trainham is an entertainment editor for Fox News Digital.
