‘Golden Bachelor’ Star Gerry Turner Reveals Cancer Diagnosis: ‘There’s No Cure for It’

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Jordan Moreau Gerry Turner, who starred in the premiere season of ABC’s “The Golden Bachelor,” revealed Wednesday that he was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year.

Turner, 72, was diagnosed with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia, a form of blood cancer. He opened up to People about it and his split from Theresa Nist, who was the winner of his season of the “Bachelor” senior citizen spinoff.

The two were married in a live TV special in January and divorced three months later. “As Theresa and I were trying very hard to find our lifestyle and where we were going to live and how we were going to make our life work, I was unfortunately diagnosed with cancer,” Turner told People.

The diagnosis came after he visited an orthopedic surgeon to treat a shoulder injury. “Finally I got around to going [to the doctor] and the orthopedic surgeon said, ‘Yeah Gerry, there’s not much we can do for your shoulder, but there are some unusual blood markers here.'” And so an orthopedic surgeon went to my family doctor, my family doctor referred me to an oncologist, and now I’m working with a hematology-oncology group in Fort Wayne,” he said. “Unfortunately, there’s no cure for it.