Leslie Fhima confirmed reinforce for her ex-boyfriend Gerry Turner as he walked down the aisle to marry Theresa Nist on Thursday, January 4.
“At our age, we have to celebrate love. And I was very good friends with Theresa. We supported each other throughout the whole time in the house, and all the way through this journey,” Leslie instructed fellow former Golden Bachelor contestant Kathy Swarts on the wedding ceremony. “And I am so, so happy for her and Gerry. I really am. And I am here at the end of the day to support love in any way.”
Leslie, 65, introduced that she used to be headed to Palm Springs to wait The Golden Wedding ceremony sooner or later ahead of the rite.
“Hey guys, Happy New Year. I just want to say thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for all your kind and encouraging words while I was in the hospital and then when I got home,” Leslie stated in an Instagram Tale publish on Wednesday, January 3. “And now, I am definitely on the mend. I’m feeling so much better that now I get to go to the wedding and I can’t wait to support Gerry and Theresa in their beautiful day, and I know it’s going to be really, really amazing.”
Leslie used to be relating to the transient clinic keep she persisted past due remaining month — on her birthday nevertheless — following a “random” well being factor.
“I know that everyone was just curious to know what I did on my 65th birthday,” Leslie published in an Instagram Tale shared on New Yr’s Eve. “I spent it in the hospital. Yes, I had a bowel blockage, severe cramping, came into the ER.”
She persisted a surgical treatment for the blockage which used to be “actually scar tissue from an appendectomy I had when I was 18 years old.” Finishing her well being replace, Leslie begged fanatics to not “wait 12 hours” ahead of going to the clinic like she did.
Leslie become a Bachelor Country fan-favorite following her Golden Bachelor debut past due remaining yr. She advanced a robust reference to Gerry, 72, upon their first assembly and made it to the display’s first-ever finale as some of the ultimate two, along Theresa, 70.
Whilst Leslie declared her love for Gerry, he had more potent emotions for Theresa finally. Leslie — and audience — have been blindsided when Gerry in the long run broke her center.
“The most important thing I fell in love with was your integrity. And because of your integrity, your words meant so much to me. I didn’t take them for granted. I took them and I put them in my heart, OK? And everybody knows what you said on camera,” she instructed Gerry after they got here face-to-face on the After the Ultimate Rose particular. “But only you and I know it was said in [during the] overnight. And I would never share that with anyone. It’s our private time. But those words gave me 100 percent certainty that I was your girl. … And your words just meant so much to me, and that’s why I was blindsided. Because I wasn’t sure how it changed or what happened.”
Regardless of the entire excellent instances, Leslie did have some qualms in regards to the finish in their courting. Gerry has since apologized for the best way issues ended between them.
“You made it sound like you chose me,” she stated. “You led me down a path and then you took a turn and left me there.”