The glow that surrounded Gerry Turner on the initial season of The Golden Bachelor started to fade a little just ahead of the finale, when a report surfaced that contradicted what Turner had said about his dating life after his wife Toni died. While the widower was portrayed on television as having no semblance of romance in his life after 2017, that turned out not to be the full truth, and Nick Viall — a former lead of The Bachelor himself — pulled no punches when discussing why it was hard for him to watch the initial season of Bachelor Nation’s newest spinoff.
A day before Gerry Turner’s proposal to Theresa Nist aired on ABC during The Golden Bachelor’s finale, a story broke in which an anonymous woman said she’d been in a three-year relationship with Turner after Toni’s death and that they’d lived together for over a year. Season 21 Bachelor Nick Viall — who also appeared on two seasons of The Bachelorette and one season of Bachelor in Paradise — had some strong words about the conflicting narratives when he spoke on Page Six’s Virtual Reali-Tea podcast. Viall said:
