Overview
- In Golden Years, Turner writes that intense public criticism after the April 2024 split led to a fleeting suicidal thought, which he says passed when he considered the impact on his daughters.
- He describes early post-wedding friction, alleging that during his first visit to Nist’s New Jersey home he was asked to sleep on the couch and that intimacy soon faded.
- Turner claims the pair agreed to avoid fueling tabloid coverage but says Nist broke that pact by issuing her own statement days after their on-air divorce announcement.
- He recounts withdrawing from public life, avoiding neighbors and stores, and wishing he could disappear to a remote Alaska hideaway as he tried to escape the scrutiny.
- Recent context includes his October 3 engagement to Lana Sutton and his December 2024 disclosure of a slow‑growing bone‑marrow cancer, Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia.