‘Golden Bachelor’ Gerry Turner admits he lied about dating history after wife’s death: There were ‘a number of women’
nypost.comdied in 2017. Chatting with Katie Couric one day after proposing to New Jersey native Theresa Nist, Turner came clean.“I guess I would say this: I dated a number of women, but then it becomes an issue of how you define whether you’re in a relationship,” Turner, 72, said while appearing on a Zoom call with Nist, 70.
Turner later told Couric, 66, that he wanted “to focus on what’s going on now.” One day before the “Golden Bachelor” finale on Nov.
30, a woman, who went by the name of Carolyn, told The Hollywood Reporter that Turner flirted with her for three months after his wife passed, and he asked her to move in with him in 2018.
Their relationship, however, fizzled out in 2019 when Turner allegedly dumped her after she gained 10 pounds mere months before his high school reunion. “I’m not taking you to the reunion looking like that,” Carolyn claims Turner told her.Things got worse when Turner allegedly ordered her to leave his home by early 2020.While attempting to move things out, Carolyn accidentally suffered an injury after falling down the stairs and was forced to stay at the emergency room.
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