Gerry Turner, the star of ABC’s The Golden Bachelor, has revealed he was diagnosed with cancer.
The reality TV star said the diagnosis came earlier this year after marrying Theresa Nist on a live ABC special in January and divorced three months later.
“As Theresa and I were trying very hard to find our lifestyle and where we were going to live and how we were going to make our life work, I was unfortunately diagnosed with cancer,” Turner said in an interview with People.
Turner was diagnosed with cancer after going to the doctor for a shoulder injury.
“Finally I got around to going [to the doctor] and the orthopedic surgeon said, ‘Yeah Gerry, there’s not much we can do for your shoulder, but there are some unusual blood markers here,’” he said. “And so an orthopedic surgeon went to my family doctor, my family doctor referred me to an oncologist, and now I’m working with a hematology-oncology group in Fort Wayne.”
Turner said he was diagnosed with a bone-marrow cancer, adding, “Unfortunately, there’s no cure for it. So that weighs heavily in every decision I make. It was like 10 tons of concrete were just dropped on me. And I was a bit in denial for a while, I didn’t want to admit to it.”
