Theresa Nist is offering her perspective following the revelations made by her ex-husband, Gerry Turner, in his latest memoir, Golden Years: What I’ve Learned from Love, Loss, and Reality TV. Turner, a former Golden Bachelor, detailed their past relationship and expressed doubts about her in the book.

Nist shared her experiences on the Dear Shandy podcast, which aired the same day as the memoir’s release. She recounted a troubling incident where Turner allegedly joked about dismembering her.

“I eventually visited his place, and we took a stroll around Pretty Lake,” Nist recalled. “As we neared the end, he pointed to a shed and said, ‘That’s where I’ll hide your body after I kill you and chop you up.’ He wasn’t smiling. I thought to myself, if this was his attempt at humor, it was quite morbid.”

Nist suggested that the remark might reveal deeper, unspoken feelings he harbored towards her.

“There seemed to be an underlying animosity in what he said,” she noted. “Almost as if he wished he could eliminate me somehow.”

Nist added that she didn’t believe Turner would have killed her.

“I don’t think he would have killed me. No, I don’t think that was true. It’s not true, but it just spoke to an underlying feeling about me,” she said.

Nist’s appearance comes after Turner wrote in the memoir that he felt “trapped” ahead of The Golden Wedding.

When reached for comment, Nist told Us Weekly, “It makes me very sad to think that he felt empty and trapped. I wish he had said something and just ended it. But at least now I understand why he was so hurtful to me so many times. And I will say this. Those in glass houses should not throw stones. I do wish him all the best.”

The couple married in ABC’s Golden Wedding special on Jan. 4, 2024 before later announcing just months later that they were getting a divorce on April 12.

Turner revealed he was diagnosed with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia, a type of bone marrow cancer, which he said played a part in their divorce as he prioritized spending more time with his family. He is now engaged to retired teacher Lana Sutton.

But the former Golden Bachelor has not minced his words when it comes to how he feels about Nist.

He told Us Weekly that he believed Nist made him out to be the “villain” when they announced their divorce. He also called Nist out for changing her mind about quitting her job so they could enjoy retirement together, saying it made for an “impossible situation.”

And when asked if he was “worried” about her reading what he wrote about her in Golden Years, Turner responded, “I’m not worried; I think she should be worried.”