Ben Higgins Shares ‘Rumor’ About Gerry Turner, Theresa Nist’s Divorce

Bachelor Nation’s Ben Higgins is sharing data allegedly about what led to Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist calling off their three-month marriage.

“This can be a rumor. I wish to be clear that as I preface this, this can be a rumor of a generalization of a dialog that Gerry and Theresa had, and I believe you’re gonna discover it attention-grabbing,” Ben, 35, clarified through the diving into the story on the Monday, Might 6, episode of the “Virtually Well-known” podcast.

“There’s a rumor that on Theresa’s go to to Indiana, Gerry picked Theresa up on the airport,” he started, claiming that previous to the journey the pair had been already “not seeing eye-to-eye in life” with one another. It was through the duo’s two-hour drive by means of corn fields again to Gerry’s lake home that in keeping with Ben, who’s from Indiana, Theresa, 70, made a remark that upset Gerry, 72.

“[She said], ‘Wow, take a look at all this stunning untouched land. Take into consideration what might be performed in the event that they developed it. Condos, workplace buildings, residences. Take into consideration the cities that would congregate in these open fields and take into consideration the folks that might be taken with shifting right here. And take a look at that lake. There’s a lake with solely cornfields round it. Take into consideration in the event that they construct up a resort the place folks may trip to,’” Ben alleged. “And Gerry’s remark again to her, once more, a rumor, was, ‘You don’t take land from a farmer.’”

Ben added: “This was an enormous begin to them disagreeing on how they noticed the world and what they imagined for the world and the way they needed to speculate into the world.”

Whereas Ben’s podcast cohost, Ashley Iaconetti, mentioned she thinks Ben made the rumor up, their podcast visitor, former Bachelor Chris Soules — who’s a farmer — mentioned he may see “each side” of Gerry and Theresa’s alleged argument.

“There’s areas that might profit from growth and economically, it is smart. However there’s a ton of land on the market, farmers have loads of land to farm, and generally there’s some misconceptions that, perhaps, there’s a scarcity, however they’re not making any extra new land, so there’s that,” Chris famous. “However that doesn’t look like one thing that ought to intrude in a elementary breakup of a relationship, I’d say. I believe there’s a contented medium that we will all stay with. … I don’t assume that ought to have resulted in [a breakup], however you, to every their very own, I assume.”

After falling in love on the debut season of The Golden Bachelor, Gerry and Theresa tied the knot throughout ABC’s The Golden Wedding ceremony stay TV particular in January. After Us Weekly confirmed that they nonetheless had not moved in collectively, they introduced they had been getting a divorce final month.

 

“Theresa and I’ve had a variety of heart-to-heart conversations and we’ve appeared carefully at our state of affairs — our dwelling state of affairs — and we’ve type of come to the conclusion mutually that it’s time for us to dissolve our marriage,” Gerry defined in a joint interview with Theresa on Good Morning America.

Us confirmed that Gerry filed for divorce that very same day, citing an “irretrievable breakdown” of their marriage as the explanation for his or her break up. Us reached out for remark concerning the break up on the time.

Gerry and Theresa’s closing interview as a pair provided some perception into their relationship dynamic. Throughout a March episode of the “Pricey Shandy” podcast, the now-exes revealed that that they had conflicting ideas over Theresa’s option to proceed working and described their preventing type as “mental jousting.”

“After we do have a battle, we’re each locked in at a sure spot that perhaps could be very shut however not equivalent,” Gerry said. “After which we take a look at one another and go, ‘Oh, what’s happening right here?’”