Theresa Nist is revealing her ways for combating stress days after ex-husband Gerry Turner released his tell-all book.
“I wanted to talk about stress. I wanted to talk about how much stress — a little bit of stress can be great, but a lot of stress and a lot of chronic stress can really take a toll on your body,” Theresa, 72, shared in a Sunday, November 9, Instagram video.
Theresa explained that she tends to “take a deep breath” and think about “all the wonderful things” in her life that she is “grateful” for — including her family — when she is particularly overwhelmed.
“Gosh, I’ve got a lot to be grateful for. I’m so thankful and all my friends and my job and my home, my goodness, I could be out on the streets,” Theresa continued. “So things could always be worse than they are. So number one is to be just grateful for what you have and to fill your soul with feeling that feeling of how good things are.”
Theresa noted that she also lies on her “slant board,” while also saying, “This too shall pass.”
“And it always does,” she said, encouraging followers to “control” their stress.
Theresa’s video comes days after Gerry detailed the pair’s relationship — and divorce — in his book, Golden Years: What I’ve Learned from Love, Loss, and Reality TV. In the book, Gerry writes about feeling “trapped” the night before marrying Theresa in 2024. (Gerry and Theresa, who got engaged in the season 1 finale of The Golden Bachelor, announced their plans to divorce months after their wedding.)
Theresa, meanwhile, reacted to Gerry’s book during an appearance on the “Dear Shandy” podcast, claiming that her ex-husband never had a conversation with her about his feelings ahead of the wedding. If he had, Theresa admitted she would have been “relieved.”
“I have to say that I always said I like to live my life without regrets, but boy I made some mistakes here. I regret getting married so quickly. That shouldn’t have happened,” Theresa shared on the Tuesday, November 4, episode.
Theresa noted elsewhere in the podcast that Gerry did her “no favors” by moving forward with the wedding when he had doubts. In a message to Gerry, Theresa added, “You should have called off the wedding.”
Gerry, for his part, opened up further about his hesitations during an appearance on The Tamron Hall Show — and even went as far as comparing the wedding to a funeral.
“It was butterflies and an anticipated funeral rather than a wedding,” Gerry said on the Monday, November 3, episode about the night before he wed Theresa. “There were a lot of mixed feelings. And I had just come off of, really, a high-velocity, artificial environment and I’m right at the end and I’m wondering whether I’m doing the right thing.”
When asked by Tamron Hall how much he thought of Theresa while writing the book, Gerry replied, “A lot.”
“I mean, early in the book and for most of the book, I’m very complimentary of Theresa and all the women and the relationship that I was building with her and so forth,” Gerry shared. “But, here again, the rest of the story is that when she said on the show that she was ready to quit her job, and then afterwards, that she wanted to continue working, there was a point where I knew deep down inside there was not going to be a compromise that worked.”
Gerry has since moved on with Lana Sutton, with whom he announced his engagement to in October.
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