The Golden Bachelor star Gerry Turner has revealed which golden ladies from his season he thinks he'll remain friends with once the show wraps on ABC.

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When asked if he'll stay friends with the women he dated on the show, Gerry said, "I wholeheartedly do," during a recent appearance on the "Life is Short with Justin Long" podcast.

"Their faces are flashing through my mind, and it's like, 'Oh yeah, I loved her for this reason,' and, 'I loved her for that reason.' And it's not just a couple of them. There's so many of them."

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When Gerry began his journey on The Golden Bachelor, he had 22 beautiful and poised golden bachelorettes to choose from who were all in their sixties and seventies.

"I genuinely wish I would've had more time to get to know them even better," Gerry shared.

"But absent of that, I think I would call each of those 22 women a friend."

Susan Noles, a 66-year-old wedding officiant from Aston, PA, is seemingly on the same page as Gerry about their friendship.

"We were definitely in the friend zone," Susan told Extra TV in early November.

"I think it was by the time we did the Pickleball game that I realized we were buddies. I made the man laugh a lot, and some of the things he said to me were like, 'You're a good friend.'"

Susan elaborated of their dynamic during filming, "And [at] the Rose Ceremonies, when he would tear up and look around the room, [I'd make him laugh or smile] and he'd always come to me later and say, 'That means so much to me, Susan. Thank you.'"

Susan confirmed that she and Gerry had "bonded" but it simply wasn't "a romantic bond," and she added, "It's either there or it isn't."

While Gerry apparently believes he established a friendship with each and every woman on his season, he may have trouble keeping in touch with April Kirkwood, a 65-year-old therapist from Port St. Lucie, FL.

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April recently told Nick Viall on his "The Viall Files" podcast that she felt "ignored" by Gerry during the show and found his behavior offensive.

"There were times when Gerry and I talked and he just seemed to look right past me," April claimed.

"And as a counselor, I'll tell you the meanest thing you can ever do to any human being is ignore them, and that did hurt my heart."

April admitted that she would have preferred being dumped by Gerry over being strung along week to week and ignored.

"I mean, tell me you don't like me, tell me you think I'm a bi-atch, tell me I'm naive or I'm sweet, whatever. Tell me anything, but don't ignore me... I will never ignore anybody," April lamented.

April had been hoping that Gerry would make her feel like she was "alive," seen and heard.

"[His behavior] hurt me a lot, and he did it constantly to me. There was nothing I could do," April complained on Nick's podcast.

And April -- who has a self-proclaimed "eccentric" and "quirky" personality -- claimed that Gerry didn't get her jokes and that she couldn't be her usual fun or and playful self with The Golden Bachelor star.

April and Gerry also had very different hobbies and taste in music. April gushed about how she loves Taylor Swift and Harry Styles, whereas she discovered early on that Gerry enjoys listening to Dean Martin.

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"There seemed to be an age difference, even though there isn't. I think age is a mental state," April reasoned.

"Even if I don't live young, I like to think I live young... For the most part, I'm out there trying to find my passions in music in life and in dancing, song, and movies."

Gerry, meanwhile, wasn't exactly crazy about April either. In early November, Gerry said during an appearance on Live with Kelly & Mark that he found it "annoying" when April had faked her ankle injury.

Most of Gerry's cast of women, however, seemed to admire and respect Gerry on The Golden Bachelor: The Women Tell All special.

Gerry's journey on The Golden Bachelor is now winding down, and he has only two bachelorettes left in the running for his heart: Leslie Fhima and Theresa Nist.

While viewers are probably not surprised by Gerry's final picks, April confessed that she was shocked Gerry had let Ellen Goltzer go before hometown dates.

"But, you know men, sometimes they think in the kitchen area," April quipped. "One thing I learned: Men are men [and] whether 70 or 17, they're all driven by hormones."

The Golden Bachelor's finale will air as a two-hour episode on Thursday, November 30 on ABC.

Click here to read spoilers on how Gerry's The Golden Bachelor season ended and whether he picked Leslie or Theresa as his winner.

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