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Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist are formally divorced. Two months after saying their break up on Good Morning America, the Golden Bachelor season 1 alums finalized their divorce in Indiana on Thursday, June 13.

In response to court docket paperwork obtained by Leisure Tonight, Gerry, 72, and Theresa, 70, “lived collectively as husband and spouse till April 12, 2024, at which period sure irreconcilable variations heretofore arisen between the events culminated of their separation.”

That month, the previous pair introduced their separation on GMA, and so they revealed that the rationale was due to distance.

“Theresa and I’ve had a lot of heart-to-heart conversations, and we’ve regarded carefully at our state of affairs, our residing state of affairs and so forth, and we’ve type of come to the conclusion mutually that it’s most likely time for us to dissolve our marriage,” Gerry — who’s from Indiana — defined. Theresa, for her half, lives in New Jersey.

Gerry added that he and Theresa are “devoted” to their households, noting, “So, we have a look at these conversations, and we each suppose it’s finest for the happiness of every of us to stay aside.”

Later that week, Theresa took to Instagram with a optimistic mindset about her and Gerry’s break up. In her caption, the ABC persona inspired her followers to “keep open to all experiences, alternatives and love which will come your approach.”

“To everybody who has expressed love, assist and kindness to me I thanks from the underside of my coronary heart,” Theresa wrote alongside a Dr. Seuss quote that learn, “Don’t cry as a result of it’s over; smile as a result of it occurred.” She added, “For everybody else who’s confused and offended and who doesn’t perceive, please attempt to discover it in your coronary heart to grasp and to attempt a bit kindness. Not only for me however for the world and for everybody you encounter.”

Theresa described her and Gerry’s relationship as “one of the unimaginable experiences of my life, one thing I by no means anticipated to occur at this level in my life and I actually thought it was going to final without end.”

“It seems, even on the age of 70, you don’t know every little thing,” she identified. “Generally, issues don’t go the best way you deliberate and that’s OK. I take so many positives away from this expertise, most significantly and above all, the unimaginable associates I now have in all of those superb, fantastic ladies and in Angie and Jenny, Payton and Charlee, the producers, the manufacturing crew and so a lot of you.”