Why did Joan leave The Golden Bachelor?
Why did Joan leave The Golden Bachelor? Joan left The Golden Bachelor in Episode 3 after she received a text from a family member and told Gerry that she needed to leave due to news she’d learned about her daughter, who had recently given birth. ”It wasn’t a normal, everyday delivery at all. Things go wrong. Even if everything went right, you need your mom,” Joan said in a confessional interview. “My family will always be first. Once you become a mom, you’re always a mom, even when your kids are older. Nothing is more important.”
Gerry told Joan that he was “disappointed” she had to leave but understood her decision. “I was thrilled we had a conversation like we did, but there’s a moral compass that we both share,” he said. “And sometimes the right thing to do is the hardest.”
Joan continued in a confessional interview, “My heart maybe got a little fix from Gerry. He’s helped with the journey, because as you get older you become more invisible. People don’t see you anymore. You’re not as significant as when you’re young.” Joan then informed the rest of the cast. “My family needs me,” she said. “I wish I could be here for the whole journey.”
Joan’s exit came after her first One-on-One date with Gerry, which she won after a Group Date talent show in which she delivered a rendition of a poem called “I Just Hope I Don’t Vomit on Your Shoes.” “As I stand here tonight without a talent to expose/ I recite this poem to Gerry because I really just want another rose,” her poem read. During their One-on-One date, Joan and Gerry bonded over her vulnerability. “Somebody that puts themselves out there like that, it’s very attractive to me,” he said before giving Joan a rose.
In an Instagram Story after she went home on The Golden Bachelorette, Joan thanked viewers for their support for her family. “A huge thank you to everyone expressing their concern for my family. It’s a privilege to be a mom to four amazing kids and a grandmother (they call me Jojo) to two beautiful grandchildren,” she wrote. “But once a mom, always a mom and sometimes the timing doesn’t work out with finding love. Everyone at home is doing great and I hope one day I will get the chance at love again.”
