A year before her tragic death, Gypsy Rose Blanchard called her fiancé Ken Urker “forever” and opened up about the couples’ therapy journey.
In March 2025, the “Life After Lockdown” star confirmed to People that she “definitely” sees her relationship with Urker standing the test of time.
“I’ve always felt that way about him,” the 35-year-old actor said.
He said they tried to “improve” their relationship by getting an “unbiased opinion” about their dynamic from a therapist.
“You don’t want to go back to your family all the time to talk about bad things,” Blanchard explained. “You don’t want their opinions to change, to be influenced, to be biased, or anything like that.
He continued at the time: “It’s nice for us to have someone around.” “They can see my side, they can see his side, and they can give us an honest opinion.”
Specifically, the couple began communicating in 2017, when Blanchard was behind bars after being convicted of second-degree murder for her role in the 2015 killing of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.
Ürker, who reached Gypsy Rose, who told about the harassment she experienced after watching the TV series “Mother is Dead and My Lover”, proposed marriage during her prison visit in 2018.
The duo called it quits the following year.
Blanchard married Ryan Scott Anderson in July 2022, but reconciled with Urker following their divorce in 2024.
In December 2024, the couple welcomed their daughter Aurora, now 1 year old, after an “unexpected” pregnancy.
Blanchard told People in 2025 that the second round of their relationship was a chance to get to know Urker “on a broader spectrum.”
She shared: “We were both young when we first met. We were in our mid-20s, so we’ve grown up. Learning about each other is almost like dating a new partner, but also our old partner.”
Urker was found unresponsive in bed at his home in Raceland, Louisiana, by a family member on Thursday after Blanchard did not respond to his “happy birthday” text.
The reality star mourned the loss of her “forever soulmate” in a statement to People, writing: “I don’t believe it. I can’t think. I screamed until my throat burned.”
He claimed that Urker died of an overdose, but noted: “I don’t know if it was intentional or not. He hasn’t been in the best of moods lately.”
Blanchard also said her partner had been the victim of “relentless” cyberbullying and urged people to remember “there is a real person behind every screen, every headline and every comment”.