The Golden Bachelor star Gerry Turner has officially filed for divorce from Theresa Nist after only three months of marriage.
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Gerry cited an "irretrievable breakdown" of marriage as the reason for his split from Theresa.
And The Golden Bachelor star listed April 12 as the pair's date of separation, which was the same day on which Gerry filed the paperwork to dissolve his marriage.
Gerry and Theresa publicly announced their breakup and decision to get a divorce earlier that day when a clip of their lengthy ABC Nightline interview aired on Good Morning America.
"Theresa and I have had a number of heart-to-heart conversations and we've looked closely at our situation -- our living situation and so forth -- and we've kind of come to the conclusion mutually that it's probably time for us to um, dissolve our marriage," Gerry told ABC News correspondent Juju Chang as he and Theresa sat holding hands.
"Get a divorce?" Juju asked The Golden Bachelor couple to clarify.
"Yes," Gerry and Theresa each replied.
"Three months after getting married?" Juju noted.
"Yes," Gerry and Theresa reiterated.
"You can imagine what the reaction's going to be -- I'm sure you've already imagined what the reaction is going to be," Juju told the pair.
After all, Gerry and Theresa just recently walked the red carpet together and filmed an episode of Celebrity Family Feud, after which Gerry boasted about the couple's "blended family" reuniting.
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"Yeah," Theresa replied as Gerry nodded.
Theresa also confirmed that she and the retired restaurant owner had signed a prenuptial agreement.
"So many people wanted us to sign a prenup, and we do [have one]," Theresa revealed with a big smile. "We thought it would be best for our families."
The couple's bombshell divorce announcement comes about two weeks after reports they were still living separately had surfaced.
During their interview with Juju, Gerry and Theresa revealed they're divorcing because neither one of them was willing to relocate and move away from their adult children and families.
Gerry is still living at his lake house in Indiana, which is about 45 minutes away from his ageing father, Everett Turner.
Theresa, meanwhile, currently resides in her native New Jersey, where she works full-time in financial services and has a home of her own near several of her grandsons.
"The thing that strikes me the most, and in our conversations, is how dedicated both of us our to our families," Gerry said as Theresa nodded in agreement.
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But Juju was openly skeptical of the couple's explanation.
"I hear what you're saying... and yet throughout the process you said you were 100% committed to making it work," she said. "In November you told me you were thinking of moving to South Carolina to be together. How did it all fall apart?"
"Yeah, so that was the plan," Theresa replied.
"We looked at homes in South Carolina. We [also] considered New Jersey. We just looked at home after home but we never got to the point where we made that decision."
Sessions with a marriage counselor apparently helped Gerry and Theresa decide to move in the direction of divorce rather than staying together.
However, the reality TV stars insisted they have not fallen out of love, despite their choice to part ways.
Gerry and Theresa also urged others to not give up on finding lasting love despite the briefness of their own marriage.
"Don't give up," Theresa said. "We say stay in it, stay hopeful because we are."
"Right," Gerry added.
During the ABC interview, Theresa also insisted a November 2023 media report that Gerry misrepresented his past throughout The Golden Bachelor's production and broadcast run and allegedly had a live-in girlfriend of nearly three years before he appeared on the show played no role in her decision to divorce.
"No, not for me," Theresa said. "Because Gerry had already discussed that with me, he had already explained that to me before the report was ever released -- so we were good with that, that didn't play into it."
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The Golden Bachelor stars also insisted they each planned to continuing looking for love in new relationships.
"Oh yeah," Gerry told Juju.
"Yes," Theresa acknowledged. "And we tell everyone else to continue looking for love."
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Gerry and Theresa fell hard for each other on The Golden Bachelor and got engaged during the season finale, which aired right after Thanksgiving in November 2023 on ABC.
After the couple got engaged on The Golden Bachelor, Gerry and Theresa had told multiple media outlets that they planned to have a fresh start by moving to South Carolina together.
"For the last couple of years, when my family gets together, I've talked about moving to South Carolina, and it's an idea I've toyed with. And then in conversation with Theresa, a private moment, she's saying, 'Well, yeah, my son lives near Charleston in South Carolina,'" Gerry told People in December 2023.
"And all of a sudden, it's like, there's a big problem that is gone. The issue of compromising on where to live and how to reconcile families and all of that is, it's no longer an issue."
Theresa had gushed at the time about how she wanted to build a big home with Gerry so their children and grandchildren could visit and have plenty of room to stay.
Afterward, Gerry drove 10 hours from Indiana with his dog to visit Theresa in New Jersey on January 9.
Gerry -- an Iowa native who has been living in Indiana since 2017 -- and Theresa tried new restaurants together, and they even recreated their first The Golden Bachelor date with a trip to a local diner.
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Theresa shared at the time, "We're still going to look there, yeah, absolutely... We're going to consider New Jersey, but it's probably going to be outside of Charleston. So that's the plan!"
"The plan is that we're going to plan. We're going to sit down and plan, and all of a sudden, my wheels started spinning about our trip to Italy."
Theresa had said she and Gerry were thinking about going to Italy, a trip ABC had gifted them, in May or June of this year.
When the Los Angeles Times previously asked Gerry if he'd continue to seek stardom or just live a quiet life with Theresa post-show, Gerry had replied, "I don't think those two things are mutually exclusive."
"I can have a great, quiet life with Theresa and still look at the aspirations and ambitions that may be out there," he elaborated in December.
"But I will say this, I am absolutely going to savor every moment until I get to that altar and say my 'I do's.' I want every single moment to be as joyful for her as it is for me, and I never want to look back and feel I hurried through anything. We'll deal with the aspirations after that."
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