Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner’s Secret Post-Divorce Romance Revealed Amid Cancer Claims
Avery Sinclair here, bringing you the kind of truth that doesn’t come with rose ceremonies or dramatic eliminations—just cold, hard facts wrapped in a healthy dose of skepticism. And if you’re expecting some grand love story from The Golden Bachelor universe, well, let’s just say reality TV and real life rarely align as neatly as producers hope.
So, what do we really know about Gerry Turner’s post-divorce dating life? Quite a bit, actually—and none of it screams “fairytale ending.” According to reports from The New York Post and confirmed on the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast, Turner didn’t exactly stay single for long after splitting from Theresa Nist in 2024.
That’s right—Turner, who got engaged to Nist at the end of The Golden Bachelor finale in late 2023 and married her in a televised special early the next year, was already seeing another contestant from his own show shortly after their split. That contestant? Christina Kempton, a former hopeful who was sent packing during week three of the season.
Susan Noles and Kathy Swarts dropped this bombshell while interviewing Nist, who admitted she had “now” heard about the relationship and confirmed it happened “a while ago.” Even more surprising? She claimed she was the one who encouraged Turner to date Kempton. “They went out for, like, six months,” Swarts added, which clearly caught Nist off guard.
Let’s pause for a moment and appreciate the irony: a man whose entire romantic journey was televised ended up sneaking around behind the back—or at least outside the public eye—with someone viewers thought was long gone from the narrative. Smooth move, Gerry.
Meanwhile, Turner later revealed he was dating Lana, a retired school teacher from Indiana, per TMZ. Nist, for her part, seemed genuinely happy for him when she appeared on The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast in June, saying, “He found someone that really suits him.”
But then came the cancer storyline.
In December 2024, Turner told People Magazine he had been diagnosed with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia, a rare blood cell cancer, and suggested it played a role in the divorce. He also cited wanting to live closer to family in different states as a factor.
Nist, however, wasn’t having it. On the same podcast, she shot down the illness angle entirely, stating, “It was a zero factor, zero. Absolutely.” She explained that she had known about the diagnosis for some time and that Turner himself had downplayed it, telling her he’d likely die of old age before the disease progressed.
“There was zero conversation about that being in it,” she said, clarifying that no discussion of illness ever factored into their decision to separate. “If that was the reason, it was in his mind only.”
So where does that leave us?
With a lot of conflicting narratives, a few broken confidences, and yet another reminder that reality TV relationships rarely survive beyond the credits. Turner may have found new love, but the optics aren’t great when your ex-wife is publicly calling out your excuses.
And honestly, if there’s one thing we’ve learned from *The Bachelor* franchise over the years, it’s that not every fairy tale deserves an encore.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and The New York Post, TMZ, People Magazine
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