'Golden Bachelor' couple Gerry and Theresa getting divorced

NEW YORK -- Sad quality for Bachelor Nation. Beloved "Golden Bachelor" mates Gerry and Theresa announced that they are getting a divorce.

The archetypal mates of the "Golden" world bid made their announcement Friday connected "Good Morning America."

Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist married connected unrecorded television conscionable 3 months agone connected January 4.

"The Golden Bachelor" Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist locomotion down the aisle to statesman their adjacent chapter. "The Golden Wedding" aired unrecorded connected ABC connected Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024.

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They said they were tense astir however fans would instrumentality the news.

"We've had a fig of heart-to-heart conversations and we've looked cautiously astatine our situation, our surviving situation, and truthful forth, and we've benignant of travel to the decision mutually that it's astir apt clip for america to dissolve our marriage," Gerry said.

The mates struggled with responsibilities to their grown children and grandchildren.

"It's been however dedicated some of america are to our families," Gerry said. "We consciousness similar it's champion for the happiness of some of america to unrecorded apart."

They had planned to determination to South Carolina together, but it ne'er came to fruition.

"So that was the plan. We looked astatine homes successful South Carolina, we considered homes successful New Jersey, and we conscionable looked astatine location aft location and we ne'er got to the constituent wherever we made that decision," Theresa said.

Throughout the interview, ABC News' Juju Chang noticed they continued to clasp hands.

"Did you autumn retired of love?" she asked.

"No, no. I inactive emotion this person," Gerry said. "There's nary uncertainty successful my mind. I inactive americium successful emotion with her, I basal for her each day."

Theresa agreed.

They anticipation their divorcement doesn't instrumentality anticipation distant from different seniors looking for love.

Theresa said that nary of the tabloid stories came into play successful their determination to divorce.

The erstwhile mates said that they are 70 and 72 and they didn't privation to discarded their clip pretending to enactment married.

Theresa volition person to springiness the ringing backmost to Neil Lane. "Sad to say, I deliberation that's however it works," she said.

"But we don't person to springiness the memories back," Gerry said.

The divorcement shouldn't instrumentality excessively agelong to finalize arsenic they did person a pre-nuptial agreement.

They program to proceed to look for emotion with different radical but accidental they program to enactment champion friends.

As for proposal for the upcoming, yet-to-be-announced "Golden Bachelorette," Theresa said, "Be authentic and beryllium yourself."

More of Juju Chang's interrogation with Gerry and Theresa volition aerial connected "Nightline" Friday night.