It's been a couple months since your wedding and you
have some news to share.
We have received so much love and support from so
many people who watch The Golden Bachelor,
and I don't think we can tell you how many
people told us that.
It gave them so much hope.
We want none of that to change for anybody.
Teresa 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 and we've kind of come to the conclusion mutually
that it's probably time for us to
dissolve our marriage.
Get a divorce. Yes. Three months after getting married.
Yes. You could imagine what the reaction is going to
be.
I'm sure you've already imagined what the reaction is going
to be.
It was just January when America's first golden couple,
Gary Turner and Teresa NIST,
profess their love for each other.
I promise to be your calm in a storm,
to comfort you when you're sad,
to laugh with you when you're happy,
and just stick with you throughout it all.
We have a trust that cannot be broken.
You may kiss your bride.
I mean, three months ago you were telling the world
that you couldn't imagine living without each other.
I mean, what the heck,
guys? The thing that strikes me the most in in
our conversations,
it's been how dedicated both of us are to our
families.
So we look at these situations and and
I think we just feel like it's best for the
happiness of each of us
to to live apart. I I hear you.
I hear what you're saying.
And yet throughout the process you said you were 100%
committed to making it work,
that in November you told me you were thinking of
moving to South Carolina to be together.
How did it fall apart?
Yeah, so that was the plan.
We looked at homes in South Carolina,
We considered New Jersey, and we just looked at homes
after home.
But we never got to the point where we made
that decision.
I can't help but notice you're still holding hands.
Yes. Did you fall out of love?
No. No. I still love this person.
There's no doubt in my mind.
I still am in love with her.
I root for her every day.
So many people who had given up on love later
in life were inspired by you.
What do you say to them now,
Especially the cynical ones who might say,
I knew it wouldn't last,
Yeah, we say don't give up.
We say stay in it,
stay hopeful, because we are the couple challenged with the
realities of being in the public eye.
There were all sorts of reports,
though, about like, oh, you're dating history,
your resume past. Did any of that play into this?
No, not for me. No,
because Gary had already discussed that with me.
He had explained it to me before the report was
ever released.
So we were good with that,
that that didn't play into it again.
It happened so abruptly. There was no sense of like,
let's just keep, let's just,
you know, pretend for a while.
We didn't want to pretend to anybody.
We wouldn't lie to anyone.
70 and 72, we can't do that as a kind
of a waste.
Can do that. I see your rings,
Will. You have to give your rings back to give
the dress back.
How does that work? I think that's the rule.
I think I have to get this ring back.
I have to say. But you know what?
We don't have to give back the memories.
So will you both continue to look for love?
Oh, yeah. Yes, yes. And we tell everybody else to
continue to look for love.
You know I still love you.
I still love you. So
yeah.