The Golden Bachelor star Gerry Turner's Final 2 bachelorettes, Theresa Nist and Leslie Fhima, have reunited without him.
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Theresa apparently traveled from her native New Jersey, where she still works a job in finance, to visit Leslie.
"Made my way all the way to Minnesota to visit my dear friend, the lovely Leslie!" Theresa captioned a photo of the women holding up cocktails via Instagram.
Leslie's daughter-in-law, Daphne, also posted a photo of a rooftop pool overlooking Minneapolis, revealing that Leslie and Theresa has enjoyed a "pool day" together.
The Golden Bachelor fans had a lot to say about this reunion considering Theresa is no longer married to Gerry, who had crushed Leslie's heart when he eliminated her in second place on the show's finale last year.
Although Leslie had attended Gerry and Theresa's live televised wedding on January 4 to show her support, she still seemed to be healing from the split.
One Instagram user wrote, "That's awesome that y'all can be friends and laugh and have a good time together and you don't need a man to define who you are you're both beautiful."
Another person quipped, "Wonder if they [are] finally comparing stories about what a dud Gerry really was."
On The Golden Bachelor, Leslie claimed Gerry had totally convinced her in the Fantasy Suite that she was The One for him and they were going to spend the rest of their lives together.
And so when Gerry eliminated Leslie in her hotel room in Costa Rica, she bawled her eyes out and lashed out at Gerry for having misled, lied to, and broken her heart.
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During the live The Golden Bachelor: After the Final Rose special that aired in late November 2023, Leslie wanted to know why Gerry had ultimately picked Theresa Nist over her, but Gerry could only say that Theresa was "right" for him and a better fit for his life.
Leslie therefore questioned Gerry's integrity and declined to accept his apology.
Leslie pointed out how Gerry could've been more empathetic or compassionate in his delivery when explaining how his heart suddenly led him toward Theresa in Costa Rica.
"He could've said that a little bit nicer," Leslie acknowledged on the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast post-finale, "especially because being chosen is my [insecurity]. But I don't know."
"I know what I signed up for and I know that someone has to go," she added, "I just didn't expect it to be so hard."
But Leslie insisted that she had no regrets from her experience on the show -- except for maybe one.
"The only thing I would've like to... or I should have said is, 'I THOUGHT you were a man of integrity,' instead of, 'You are a man of integrity,'" Leslie shared.
She continued, "Because at the end of the day, he didn't really have the integrity that I thought he had."
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Leslie admitted of their brutal breakup, "I don't respect what he did... I feel like he just used, 'I love you,' too much."
Leslie admitted on the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast at the time that while she didn't get the closure she needed from Gerry on After the Final Rose, she was able to close that chapter and look forward to better times.
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Theresa, meanwhile, had announced her split from Gerry on April 12, which is the same day Gerry filed for divorce in Indiana, where he owns a house on a lake.
The pair had said that neither of them wanted to move away from their loved ones, and Theresa wasn't even ready to retire from her job in New Jersey yet.
Theresa and Gerry had signed a prenuptial agreement before their wedding and reached a marital settlement on June 4.
Theresa is now officially back on the market after an Indiana judge entered a dissolution of marriage decree on June 13.
Gerry recently revealed to TMZ that's not ready to jump into another serious relationship yet his DMs are flooded with women who are interested in dating him.
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