On Thursday’s episode of The Women Tell-All, Joan offered more insight into her coming out, sharing how she rushed to her daughter’s side while battling postpartum depression
Joan Vassos intended to return to The Golden Bachelor for your second chance at love.
The TV personality, 60, shared that she wants to return to continue things with Gerry Turner after her self-elimination. Unfortunately, the timing for her return didn’t work out.
“I came home and my plan was to give [my daughter] some care — I should have given her some mental health care,” she said TheWrap. “I was in the process of doing that, and they approached me and said, ‘Do you want to come back?’ and I said, ‘Yes, I’d like to go back, to see how I’m doing with my daughter.'”
Joan gets a rose on ‘The Golden Bachelor’.
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Production even booked her a flight back to the mansion “four or five days” after she left, but her plans were abandoned when “her daughter was not well again.”
“We just haven’t gotten far enough — I haven’t gotten her a doctor yet,” she said. “I had calls, but it just couldn’t happen fast enough. It wasn’t in the cards.”
On Thursday Women say everything episode, Joan gave more insight into her abrupt exit from the show. She revealed that she rushed to her daughter’s side after experiencing postpartum depression following the birth of her child.
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“I look at the journey I left, it was abrupt and I feel like I had unfinished business and I didn’t see all that Gerry at the end and him crying, and I feel really bad that I was that to him,” she explained.
When asked if it would have worked out with Gerry if she hadn’t gone, the Maryland native said, “I think we had a good chance. Gerry helped me feel visible because he looked at me, he cared and wanted to know me.”
Despite hooking up with Gerry, Joan had a change of heart when she received a text from her daughter the next morning and broke down in tears over whether she should leave the show to be with her family.
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Gerry and Joan in ‘The Golden Bachelor’.
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She told Gerry: “I got a text this morning and I think I have to go home and be a mum now. So as much as I don’t want to leave—and I don’t want to abandon our journey—I have to be a parent.”
While he understood her decision, Gerry said he was “disappointed” she was leaving, adding: “I was delighted we had the conversation we did, but there’s a moral compass that we both share and sometimes doing the hardest thing is the right thing to do.”
After sharing a goodbye kiss with Joan, Gerry broke down in tears on the bench outside the mansion.
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The Golden Bachelor airs Thursdays at 8:00 PM ET on ABC.
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