While he originally told Theresa he’d been diagnosed with a blood disorder—which is what medical staff originally thought—it was weeks after receiving his diagnosis with cancer that Gerry broke the news to his then-wife.
“Certainly, it was hard for me,” he remembered of the conversation. “But the conversation was brief and I think [she was] a little bit awestruck by the news. So understandable.”
And it was within reassessing his priorities and navigating his new normal that his relationship with Theresa began to further fray.
“I wanted my life to continue on as normal as possible,” Gerry explained. “And that led me to believing that as normal as possible more meant spending time with my family, my two daughters, my two son-in-laws, my granddaughters.”
He continued. “And the importance of finding the way with Theresa was still there, but it became less of a priority.”
The 72-year-old, in part, shared his health news in the hopes that it would alleviate any lingering questions or scrutiny about his and Theresa’s breakup.
