Faith Martin admits to predicting breakup with Gerry Turner after 'The Golden Bachelor' hometown date
BENTON CITY, WASHINGTON: The lady Gerry Turner had a nervous breakdown over on 'The Golden Bachelor' is now speaking out about her experience on the new show. Faith Martin had a feeling her romance with 'The Golden Bachelor' Gerry Turner would end after their hometown date.
"The last scene where I was standing there waiting and the car drove away, I remember having this feeling like, Oh, my God. What if this is the last time I see him?" Faith informs PEOPLE.
"Certainly I had in my brain the very real possibility that it may not work out. I remember feeling it right then. I cried when he drove off.”
Faith told Hollywood Life exclusively regarding her elimination that she had a feeling she was going home at the rose ceremony.
“When I walked up and talked to Jesse [Palmer] right in the beginning, at the end of our little short conversation, Jesse had said, ‘Sometimes in these shows, things don’t often go the way we hope they do. How will you be with that?’ And I was so keenly aware that, yes, it can go that way. But did I expect it? No.”
She added, “But I remember thinking and looking at Jesse’s eyes and going, does he know something I don’t know? I think, honestly, in my own mind from the very beginning of the show, I could see in Gerry’s eyes that he had a little bit of a thing for Theresa [Nist]. I hadn’t really seen that with him and Leslie [Fhima], but I thought if he chooses Leslie, like if he gives Leslie a rose, then I know I’m going home. Or that there’s a pretty good chance I’m going home, right? Then he gave Leslie the rose, so I was standing there going, wow, I’m really going home. This is it. Gerry’s choosing out. So in that moment, I was just sort of trying to keep it together and wondering, of course, why is he choosing out? What’s going on? That was a hard night.”
Faith Martin lists reasons behind breakup with Gerry Turner
Faith believes her and Gerry's differing lifestyles, as well as the fact that they reside in separate states, had a factor in their separation, as she stated in the episode.
"He never brought that up, but I had felt that that might've been," she adds. "I remember that night thinking, ‘Oh, should I have done that?’ But, I wouldn't have been being honest had I not said that. He needed to know that because I'm just not the type of person that can see my kids a couple of times a year."
The high school teacher also enjoys being "outside more than in."
"The other part of it is, I love to camp and hike and backpack and be on my horses," she said. "I'd never played pickleball before. I mean, there's a million reasons that he might've gone, ‘Ah. This isn't really a great fit,’ even though we had a strong connection. As hard as it is for me to take, I feel like it was the best decision that he put me out when he did."
Faith told Gerry straight out that she lived in Benton City, Washington, during their date in her hometown. She remarked, "I felt like it was important for me to tell Gerry that my heart and my soul are with my kids and my grandkids."
Faith said that she had always thought about the "age difference" between her and Gerry—she is 61 and he is 72. "We talked about that a few times," so she said, "so I definitely knew that logistically there might be some stumbling blocks that might give us the idea that even though we have deep feelings for each other, it might not be the way to go."
Faith Martin's family was left devastated after elimination
When Gerry broke up with Faith, her family was upset. Viewers learned at the end of the November 9 episode "Women Tell All" special that Faith did not move to the final two women, as Gerry instead handed roses to Leslie and Theresa.
The unexpected choice, which occurred after Faith and Gerry said 'I love you' on her Hometown date, astonished Bachelor Nation, Faith, and her boys.
"I think they were shattered. It'll make me cry. I think it was really devastating for all of us, because I think they fell in love with him a little bit too, just picturing our life together and what that could be," Faith said of her family to ET's Denny Directo.
"I think they were all so happy and thinking that it might go that direction, so it was a big surprise and a big letdown."
"But we're all there together," she added. "We know sometimes things happen in the world that you can't predict and you just gotta roll with it. It's just what it is."
