Gypsy Rose Blanchard He speaks out after news of his ex-fiancée broke. Ken Urker, He died on his 34th birthday.
To talk People On Thursday, October 1, after Urker was found unresponsive at his home earlier that day, Blanchard, 35, said he did not know whether his death was “intentional.”
“He hasn’t been in a good mood lately,” Blanchard told the press.
Blanchard, who shares 1-year-old daughter Aurora Raina with Urker, said she is still coming to terms with the pain of the loss.
“I don’t believe it. I can’t think,” he said. “I screamed until my throat burned.”
Blanchard paid tribute to Urker and said: People “Ken was a wonderful father and a deeply loved man. He will forever be my soul mate and my red thread; a connection that time, distance or even death will never erase,” she said in a statement.
In an interview with TMZ On Thursday, Blanchard claimed she was the victim of “relentless cyberbullying” before Urker’s death.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
(Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)We He confirmed that Urker was found unresponsive at a residence in Raceland, Louisiana, on Thursday, his 34th birthday.
The Lafourche County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Urker’s death. We They “responded to a residence” after receiving a call Thursday at 6:15 p.m.
Authorities confirmed Urker was “found dead on arrival” and added: “We are currently continuing the death investigation.”
Accordingly TMZBlanchard sent a text message to Urker saying “Happy Birthday” but did not receive a response. Later, Urker’s brother Dylan discovered him at home. Urker’s sister, Autumn, also confirmed her brother’s death via an emotional TikTok Live on Thursday evening.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard appears to have calmed the rumors by revealing the name of her and Ken Urker’s baby girl. Blanchard, 33, had a baby shower in Louisiana on Saturday, Nov. 16, the same weekend The Blast reported that she and Urker were on the rocks. “Ken and I were so excited to have a beautiful celebration. […]
Blanchard and Urker’s relationship began as pen pals in 2015, when he was serving seven years behind bars for his role in the murder of his mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.
After watching the HBO documentary The Mother Is Dead and My Lover Urker wrote a supportive letter to Blanchard in 2017 while he was still serving his sentence.
They later shared their first kiss when he visited her in prison, and Urker later proposed to Blanchard in October 2018.
Urker and Blanchard broke up the following year and he moved on. Ryan AndersonThe person he married in a prison ceremony in 2022.
When Blanchard and Anderson’s marriage broke up in early 2024, she reconciled with Urker and they had their first child, a daughter named Aurora, in December 2024.
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