She also credited him with helping her to not feel invisible at her age."Gerry helped make me feel visible because he looked at me, and he cared about what I was saying, and he wanted to get to know me,

Joan Vassos shocked viewers last year when she self-eliminated from The Golden Bachelor premiere season and walked away from her chance at finding late-in-life love with Gerry Turner. Fast-forward a year and she's starring in the first female-led senior series, The Golden Bachelorette, which premiered Sept. 18 on ABC.