'Golden Bachelor' Gerry Turner goes OFF on ex-wife in new memoir

Things got tarnished quickly for the “Golden Bachelor” star Gerry Turner.

Gerry married Theresa Nist at the end of the debut season of the show, but the couple split after just three months of marriage.

Now, Gerry is telling all in his new memoir, “Golden Years: What I’ve Learned From Love, Loss , and Reality TV.”

“The motivation [for the book] came from the frustration of not being able to tell the whole story about myself and my feelings while I was on the show, Gerry told The New York Post. “There was so much left unsaid and unrevealed. I wanted that information out there.”

Here’s what Gerry wanted to say about his time on the show and his marriage, per excerpts from The NY Post.

Theresa was “calculated” on camera

During his initial time on the show with Gerry felt he got along easily with Theresa, calling their conversations “breezy.” (I think this needs re wording?)

But he also felt, after watching the show back, that “something about her answers felt rehearsed.” He added that some of her answers to questions felt “calculated” and he felt it “blocked” him from getting to know “the real her.”

The off-camera relationship was “difficult”

Gerry and Theresa had to avoid being seen in public after the show finished filming, so their relationship was mostly done over phone calls, which Gerry called “difficult.”

“Her tone and delivery were the same whether she was talking about a problem at work or about picking up her morning smoothie. Theresa came off almost mechanical on the phone as we went through our nightly script of generic mundane questions There was no way around it: our calls were awkward,” he claims.

Gerry also complained that when they had a New York getaway one weekend, Theresa, who was in charge of shopping, only bought salmon, salad greens, and eggs. “It had never occurred to me that there wouldn’t be what I call food, otherwise known as carbohydrates of any kind,” he wrote.

The 74-year-old also felt Theresa misrepresented herself, saying, “I was a little resentful because her economic situation wasn’t at all what she had described on the show, leaving me to wonder what else I had misunderstood, or she had misrepresented.”

Wedding Woes

According to Gerry, Theresa “took over” wedding plans.

“Over the course of the wedding planning, it became painfully apparent how different our priorities were. All I wanted to do was be with her, she was so engrossed in planning her dream wedding, however, that I all but disappeared,” he says in the memoir.

Allegedly, Gerry said his friends from Indiana felt Theresa had an “east coast mentality,” which became code for “the signs of incompatibility” they had.

Gerry says he had doubts before they tied the knot, and even told Theresa, but told him there was “nothing to fear.”

Honeymoon Surprises

Gerry claims that on their honeymoon, Theresa asked him to sleep on the sofa and that her behavior was “very different” than when they first met on the show, turning down opportunities, leaving Gerry with a feeling of “rejection.”

As they continued to adjust to each other as a married couple, he says there was a “near-constant low hum of conflict as we continued to confront our difference in schedules, eating habits, and plans to see each other.”

“Horribly awkward” goodbye

They shared a “horribly awkward goodbye at the airport” after their week together and later agreed they had “acted in haste in getting married.”