“The Golden Bachelor” star Gerry Turner has cancer.
The 72-year-old shared health news in an interview People Published on Wednesday.
He said he was diagnosed with the disease just weeks before his separation from his ex-wife, Theresa Nist, 71, earlier this year.
“Because Theresa and I were working so hard to figure out our lifestyle and where we would live and how we would run our lives, unfortunately I got cancer,” Turner revealed.
The reality star revealed that he found out about his cancer when he went to an orthopedic surgeon for a shoulder injury three years ago.
Turner said he was diagnosed with a slow-growing “bone marrow cancer” with a “really long name” called Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia.
Unfortunately, there is no cure for it. So it has a huge impact on every decision I make,” he said. “It was as if 10 tons of concrete had been dropped on me. And I was a little bit in denial for a while, I just didn’t want to admit it.
Turner confirmed that he told NIST about his diagnosis in March. The couple announced their separation the following month.
“When you are hit by such news and after a few days or a few weeks the shock wears off and you regroup and you realize what is important to you, then from there you move forward.” Let’s start,” he explained, “and I hope that people look back now and understand that it had a huge impact on my decisions and I think probably Theresa’s too.”
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