Golden Bachelor” star Gerry Turner is giving a major update about his cancer battle.
“I feel great,” he said. “Until I have any symptoms, there’s no treatment. So I go frequently for blood tests. I’m on, like, a six-month schedule now, and I feel optimistic because the doctor has said, ‘Well, when you turn 75, we’re going to have to go three-month increments,'” Turner said on the Bachelor Nation Happy Hour.
“So it’s telling me that at least he expects me to live another couple of years to get to that. But the bottom line is I feel really good,” he said on the podcast.
Turner also gave an update on his love life.
Gerry Turner Also Revealed That He Is Datin
On the podcast, Turner also gave a major update about his personal life. He revealed that he has been dating since his divorce from “Golden Bachelor” winner Theresa Nist.
Fans had followed the “Golden Bachelor” couple from their first date in a diner to their televised wedding and then their lives post-divorce.
“The person I’m dating will say, ‘Do you want to go do-’ And before she even gets out the rest of the sentence, I will say yes. So I’m in on everything,” he said on the podcast.
“And it makes life exciting because you kind of in the back of your head feel like you’ve got a lot of living to do and you don’t know how long you have to do it, so don’t turn down anything. And so, in a way, it’s really a good thing.”
Turner did not give any clues to the woman’s identity, however.
Gerry Opened Up About How Cancer Has Changed Him
On the podcast, Turner also described how cancer had changed him and, in some ways, he said that the struggle has changed him for the better.
“I mean this sincerely, from the time I got this diagnosis, it’s a privilege to live like you’re dying,” he said. “I don’t turn down anything. I feel like I’m more open to emotions. I’m more open to experiences.”
In December, Turner revealed to People magazine that he was diagnosed with a slow-growing form of bone marrow cancer.
“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,” he told People at the time of the diagnosis.
