‘Golden Bachelor’ alum Teresa Nist claims her ex-husband Jerry Turner threatened to cut her up and hide her body in a cabin.
Ms. Nist recalled visiting Ms. Turner’s lakefront home during an appearance on Tuesday’s episode of the “Dear Shandy” podcast.
“We were walking around this lake called Pretty Lake, and as we neared the end, he said, this is really weird. He said, ‘Do you see that cabin over there?'” she began.
“I said, ‘Yes,'” he said, “After I kill you and cut you up, I’m going to hide your body there.”
Mr Nist, 72, said Mr Turner, 74, “wasn’t smiling” when he shared his horrifying feelings.
“I said, ‘If this is a joke he came up with, it’s pretty dark humor,'” she recalled.
Ms. Nist believes that Mr. Turner was expressing some kind of hidden hostility toward her.
“I felt like there was an underlying hostility in that statement,” she said. “Maybe if he could get rid of me somehow.”
However, Nist does not believe that Turner actually killed her.
“No, I don’t think that’s true. It’s not true, but it just spoke to an underlying feeling about me,” she added.
Nist met Turner while competing to win his heart on Season 1 of The Golden Bachelor in 2023.
Turner got down on one knee and proposed to Nist on ABC, and they tied the knot a year later in a televised wedding.
However, just three months after saying “I’m getting divorced,” they announced that they were getting divorced, and their love story came to an end.
“Teresa and I have had many heartfelt conversations, carefully considered our circumstances, our life circumstances, and mutually decided that it may be time to end our marriage,” Turner told “Good Morning America” viewers at the time.
Nist then encouraged viewers to hold out hope for finding love later in life, even if the two break up.
“We’ve received so much love and support from so many people who have watched ‘The Golden Bachelor,’ and I can’t tell you how many people have told me that this movie gave them hope,” she said. “We hope it doesn’t change anything for anyone.”
Both reality stars were previously married and widowed before falling in love with each other. Both had children with their deceased spouses.
During the marriage, Ms. Nist remained at her home in New Jersey, and Ms. Turner stayed at her home in Indiana to be near their respective children’s homes. After all, they couldn’t do long-distance work.
“We looked at a house in South Carolina, we looked at a house in New Jersey, we looked at one house after another, but we just couldn’t make a decision,” Nist explained.
Turner later claimed in her memoir, The Golden Age: What I Learned from Love, Loss, and Reality TV, published in November 2025, that she felt “trapped” by her decision to marry Nist.
Nist admitted that she felt “very sad” when she heard that “he felt empty and trapped” while speaking to Us Weekly last month.
“I wish he would have said something and ended it right away,” she said. “But at least now I understand why he hurt me so many times. And I’ll tell you this: People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. I wish him well.”
Turner has since moved on with new fiancée Lana Sutton. The couple announced their engagement in October.
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