{"id":2137101,"date":"2025-11-05T16:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2137101"},"modified":"2025-11-05T16:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:48:09","slug":"theresa-nist-claims-gerry-turner-once-joked-about-chopping-up-her-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/theresa-nist-claims-gerry-turner-once-joked-about-chopping-up-her-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Theresa Nist Claims Gerry Turner Once Joked About Chopping Up Her Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In light of his new book, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/theresa-nist\/\"><strong>Theresa Nist<\/strong><\/a> is looking back at one particular conversation with ex-husband <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/gerry-turner\/\"><strong>Gerry Turner<\/strong><\/a> that still stands out to her today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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 \u2014 this is really bizarre \u2014 He said, \u2018You see that shed up there?\u2019 I said, \u2018Yeah.\u2019 He said, \u2018Well, that\u2019s where I\u2019m going to hide your body after I kill you and chop you up,\u2019\u201d Theresa, 72, claimed on the Tuesday, November 4, episode of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=juyVE4werQo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cDear Shandy\u201d<\/a> podcast. \u201cAnd he wasn\u2019t laughing. I said, \u2018Well, if this was his idea of a joke, that was pretty dark humor.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cI 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\u2019t think he would have killed me. No, I don\u2019t think that was true. It\u2019s not true, but it just spoke to an underlying feeling about me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Us Weekly<\/em> reached out to Gerry\u2019s rep for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Theresa and Gerry, 74, met on <em>The Golden Bachelor<\/em> season 1, which aired in 2023. The pair ended the show engaged before <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/golden-bachelor-gerry-turner-theresa-nists-relationship-timeline\/\">tying the knot<\/a> in a televised ceremony in 2024. Months later, Theresa and Gerry announced their plans to divorce.<\/p>\n<p>Theresa\u2019s comments come on the same day that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/golden-bachelor-gerry-turners-revelations-about-theresa-nist-in-book\/\">Gerry released his memoir,<\/a> <em>Golden Years: What I\u2019ve Learned from Love, Loss, and Reality TV<\/em>. In the book, Gerry shared his side of the story on their relationship \u2014 including that he felt \u201ctrapped\u201d by deciding to marry Theresa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just didn\u2019t feel overjoyed about it,\u201d Gerry explained in his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/golden-bachelor-gerry-turner-to-expose-reasons-for-divorce-in-book-excl\/\"><em>Us<\/em>\u00a0digital cover story<\/a> last month, before the book\u2019s release. \u201cSo much of the book is about how I felt at certain moments, and that\u2019s only a momentary truth\u2026 I had second thoughts, but I don\u2019t think [they] were exaggerated from anyone\u2019s normal second thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Theresa, for her part, reacted to Gerry\u2019s claims about feeling \u201ctrapped,\u201d telling <em>Us<\/em>\u00a0in a statement at the time, \u201cIt makes me very sad to think that he felt empty and trapped. I wish he had said something and just ended it. But at least now I understand why he was so hurtful to me so many times. And I will say this. Those in glass houses should not throw stones. I do wish him all the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/theresa-nist-shares-fears-about-gerry-turners-book-revelations\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/theresa-nist-shares-fears-about-gerry-turners-book-revelations\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Theresa Nist Reveals \u2018Biggest Fear\u2019 About Gerry Turner\u2019s Book<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tGolden Bachelor\u2019s Theresa Nist is opening up about her ex Gerry Turner\u2019s claims that his cancer diagnosis played a role in their split \u2014 and why she\u2019s nervous about his new book. \u201cIt was a zero factor. Zero. I was just so surprised that he even said that,\u201d Nist, 71, said during the Thursday, June [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gerry, meanwhile, made a shady comment when asked whether Theresa should be \u201cworried\u201d about reading the memoir. Gerry replied to <em>Us<\/em>, \u201cI\u2019m not worried; I think she should be worried.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all have goals in life. We all deserve to be happy. So I certainly wish the same to her as I would all of the women and myself, and that she finds her path to her full happiness,\u201d he said to <em>Us<\/em> at the time. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with embracing a career like she does \u2014 maybe that\u2019s her source of happiness. And I think that would be wonderful. I just wish I would have known that if that\u2019s the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of his new book, Theresa Nist is looking back at one particular conversation with ex-husband Gerry Turner that still stands out to her today. \u201cI 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2137102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[305646,24003,21738],"class_list":["post-2137101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-bachelor-nation","tag-celebrity-news","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Theresa-Nist-Claims-Gerry-Turner-Once-Joked-About-Chopping-Up.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2137103,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137101\/revisions\/2137103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2137102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}