Former Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner hasn’t quite embraced the idea of being divorced following his split from Theresa Nist.

“I don’t want to sound disrespectful at all. I don’t think of myself as being divorced,” Turner, 74, said on the Tuesday, October 28, episode of the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast when asked how he responds to criticism he moved on too fast in his engagement to Lana Sutton.

Cohost Susan Noles, for her part, quipped, “What marriage?”

“It was such a short time and it was, you know, in an artificial environment that I have to stop myself and say, ‘Yeah, you know what? I am divorced. It’s not like I’m that guy that was married 43 years and then did nothing,'” Turner continued. “I am divorced.”

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