This rose has wilted.
Jesse Palmer, who hosted “The Golden Bachelor,” says he needs Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist “nothing however happiness” after the pair introduced that they had been submitting for divorce after being married for under three months.
“My coronary heart is ceaselessly with these two lovely souls,” Palmer, 45, wrote in an Instagram publish on Saturday. “I’m eternally grateful to have gotten to know Gerry and Theresa and to have been a small a part of their journey.”
“I realized rather a lot about life, love and household watching and speaking with them,” Palmer added. “Wishing them and their households each nothing however happiness.”
Turner and Nist placed on a united entrance whereas saying their divorce throughout an interview on “Good Morning America” on Friday.
“Theresa and I’ve had plenty of heart-to-heart conversations, and we’ve appeared carefully at our state of affairs, our dwelling state of affairs, so forth, and we’ve type of come to the conclusion mutually that it’s most likely time for us to dissolve our marriage,” Turner, 72, instructed host Juju Chang.
“We simply really feel prefer it’s finest for the happiness of every of us to stay aside,” Turner stated. “I nonetheless love this particular person. There’s little question in my thoughts.”
In accordance with Nist, 70, a lot of the choice to nullify the wedding got here after they couldn’t determine on a spot to stay.
“We checked out houses in South Carolina, we thought of New Jersey, and we simply checked out houses after house,” the New Jersey native added. “However we by no means acquired to the purpose the place we made that call.”
“I nonetheless love you,” the 2 stated to one another saying that that they had agreed on a prenup previous to saying “I do” and that they nonetheless take into account one another “finest mates.”
The pair said that they nonetheless plan to be in contact.
In accordance with authorized paperwork obtained by The Submit, Turner filed the petition in his hometown of Petersburg, Indiana.
The paperwork revealed that the official date of separation was April 12 and that the “Golden Bachelor” contestant cited “irretrievable breakdown” as the rationale for dissolving the wedding.
Per Indiana regulation, a divorce primarily based on an irretrievable breakdown of the wedding is called a “no-fault” divorce and isn’t grounded upon wrong-doing or marital misconduct of the husband or spouse.
Experiences of the divorce come after the pair grew to become engaged in November 2023 when Turner, the first-ever contestant on the present, proposed to Nist over runner-up Leslie Fhima in Costa Rica.
Nist and Turner later wed in an ABC-televised ceremony on Jan. 4.
In accordance with Nist, Turner’s checkered relationship historical past didn’t play an element of their break up.
“Gerry had already mentioned that with me,” Nist instructed “GMA” referring to a Hollywood Reporter article that was launched previous to their marriage ceremony which claimed Turner had dated a number of ladies after the demise of his spouse, Toni, and even fat-shamed one in every of his earlier companions.
“He had defined it to me earlier than the report was ever launched,” Nist stated, “so we had been good with that.
“That didn’t play into it.”
On the time of the article’s launch, Turner slammed the allegations.
“I suppose I might say this: I dated plenty of ladies, however then it turns into a difficulty of the way you outline whether or not you’re in a relationship,” Turner instructed veteran information anchor Katie Couric.
Turner later instructed Couric, 66, that he needed “to concentrate on what’s happening now.”
