Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner’s Dating History: What We Know

If Gerry Turner prepares for a future with the winner of season 1 of The golden bachelorthere has been some talk about his past relationship history.

ABC announced in July that Gerry would be the first senior Bachelor, taking on the gig six years after his 43-year-old wife, Toni, died in 2017. According to Gerry, he went out “a number of times” after losing his wife. .

“More recently than when she died,” Gerry said People. “For some reason the attempts failed. I could give you a wide variety of reasons, but it doesn’t really matter.

He claimed that I thought I was ready every time [to date]I realized that this was not the case.”

“Somehow I got it into my head that if you grieve for a year, you should be fine at the end of the year. That was absolutely not the case,” Gerry said.

An anonymous woman who claimed to be dating Gerry before the show told a different story The Hollywood Reporter about the timing of his return to dating. A day before the November 30 finale, ‘Carolyn’ told the newspaper that she had been in a relationship with Gerry for almost three years, with their relationship beginning within months of Toni’s death.

“The idea of ​​dating a recent widower just terrifies me,” she said THR. “I just really didn’t see it. Until I went back and looked at my text messages, I never realized that Gerry’s text messages had become intense and heavy so relatively quickly.

After reportedly moving in together in the summer of 2018, ‘Carolyn’ claimed things took a turn for the worse when Gerry reportedly didn’t invite her to his high school reunion in November 2019. ‘I’m not taking you to the reunion if you looks like this,” she claimed, he said. as he allegedly pointed at her body. The couple split for good in early 2020. According to Gerry’s interview with People, he sought the help of a grief counselor that same year as he was having trouble dating again.

“It was a difficult time. I finally decided, “It’s time for me to see a grief counselor,” because I wasn’t sure if I was on the right track. I wasn’t sure if I was recovering properly. It probably changed my life because I remember having two sessions with the counselor and he said, ‘You’re doing well. You just have to give yourself credit for being okay,” Gerry said.

Gerry and ABC have yet to comment publicly on the THR report. Although the outlet suggested that fans have come to believe that Gerry never had a relationship after Toni died, Gerry noted on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast in July that he “dated a few women along the way” and even shared a kiss with his friends. neighbour. He has since shared other dating stories in the press, telling Esquire earlier this month he tried online dating before his reality TV career began.

“Some of it was good, some of it not so good. I had a rule that was ’60 and 60′. They had to be over 60 years old and within 60 miles,” he said.

Gerrie said Esquire that he was catfished when he broke his own rule.

“One woman online was very persistent that it could be something that would work. But she was about a 90 mile drive away. “When I finally drove over one evening, she came out the front door looking completely different than her profile picture,” he said. “I asked her about it in a warm, organic way, and she said, ‘Oh yeah, that’s my sister’s picture. She’s six years younger.’ I still bought her dinner, but there was no second date.”

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“Carolyn” claimed so THR that she heard Gerry say in the series that he had not kissed someone in six years. Us rewatched the first two episodes of The golden bachelor and didn’t hear the comment. Gerry told me earlier Us that he intended not to kiss on the first night, but that failed.

“[My daughters and granddaughters] “I was afraid I would be the guy who kissed everyone on the first night,” he said Us in September. ‘And I said, ‘No, I’m not going to kiss anyone the first night. You’re not going to see that. Maybe not even if we get into it.” Well, as you’ll see, I failed the first night, but I don’t feel bad about it at all.

Although there are conflicting reports about Gerry’s past, his future will be revealed on Thursday, November 30, when fans see if he gives his final rose to Leslie Fhima or Theresa Nist.