Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner reveals in his new memoir that he struggled with suicidal ideation in the wake of his split from Theresa Nist, Us Weekly can confirm.

In an excerpt from the book, titled Golden Years: What I’ve Learned From Love, Loss, and Reality TV, and obtained by TMZ on Monday, November 3, Turner, 74, details his shame — and fleeting suicidal thoughts — after he and Nist, 72, announced their divorce in April 2024. (The Golden Bachelor exes tied the knot three months earlier on ABC.)

“If there would be a lot of comments about the rumors and press about me, no matter how well meant and sympathetic they were (Gerry we’re-so-sorry stuff), I didn’t want to go,” he wrote in the excerpt, which has been confirmed by Us. “I started avoiding people altogether, whether by walking ci

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