Ashley Iaconetti. Monica Schipper/Getty Photographs
Ashley Iaconetti doesn’t “purchase” Golden Bachelor couple Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist blaming their divorce on lengthy distance.
“I believe a variety of the Good Morning America interview was BS since you don’t say, ‘We’re nonetheless in love with one another,’ after which get divorced. You simply don’t,” Iaconetti, 36, mentioned by way of her Instagram Tales on Friday, April 12. “If it’s a distance factor — at their age particularly — reside in Indiana, reside in New Jersey, go to one another a few times a month … Be in love, be married however, like, you already know, commute to one another. I don’t purchase [it]. I don’t purchase that the shifting factor is the rationale they obtained divorced three months in.”
Iaconetti then defined why she wasn’t tremendous stunned to find out about Turner, 72, and Nist, 70, ending their relationship following their wedding ceremony in January.
“Once I got here again from the Golden Wedding ceremony, my good friend Naz [Perez] wished me on the ‘I Don’t Get It’ podcast to speak about it and I mentioned, ‘No, I can’t as a result of I didn’t really feel something,’” she recalled after attending the season 1 couple’s nuptials at La Quinta Resort and Membership in Palm Springs, California.
On April 12, Us Weekly confirmed Turner filed to dissolve their marriage in his hometown of Petersburg, Indiana, itemizing the identical day as their date of separation. He cited the “irretrievable breakdown” of their marriage as the rationale for the break up.
A number of hours earlier, Turner and Nist appeared on Good Morning America to substantiate their breakup. The pair introduced the information whereas holding palms and defined that their cross-country residing scenario led to the top of their relationship.
Theresa Nist, Gerry Turner. Disney/James Clark
“Theresa and I’ve had numerous heart-to-heart conversations,” Turner mentioned on Friday’s broadcast. “We’ve regarded intently at our residing conditions and we’ve sort of come to the conclusion mutually that it’s time for us to dissolve our marriage. “The issues that strike me essentially the most in our conversations it’s been how devoted each of us are to our households. So, we have a look at these conditions and I believe we simply really feel prefer it’s greatest for the happiness of every of us to reside aside.”
Turner added, “I nonetheless love this particular person, there’s little question in my thoughts. I root for her day-after-day.”
Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist celebrated their Golden Bachelor journey with a star-studded wedding ceremony earlier than finally calling it quits. The couple tied the knot on ABC’s The Golden Wedding ceremony particular in January 2024. Attended by the pair’s household, pals and greater than 50 members of Bachelor Nation, followers watched as Gerry and Theresa walked down […]
Turner and Nist have a prenuptial settlement, and they’re planning to return their Neil Lane wedding ceremony and engagement rings, per contractual stipulations.
That is the second marriage for each Turner and Nist, who had every wed their highschool sweethearts. Gerry and his late spouse, Toni Turner, had been married for 43 years earlier than she died in 2017 from a bacterial an infection. Theresa was married for 42 years to her late husband, Billy Nist, who handed away in 2014. Gerry and Theresa every shared two grownup youngsters and a number of grandchildren with their deceased spouses.
