Gypsy Rose Blanchard broke down while discussing her late partner, Ken Urker, in her first interview since his sudden death last month.
Blanchard, 35, became tearful as she told 60 Minutes Australia reporter Amelia Adams that she was “still trying to process” Urker’s death.
Urker, who shared a nearly two-year-old daughter, Aurora, with Blanchard, was found dead at his home in Raceland, Louisiana, on October 1.
Blanchard described her reaction when she first learned of his death: “I just kept saying, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no, no! This isn’t true. You’re lying, you’re making this up.’ And I just hit the floor, and I just remember screaming, screaming, screaming, screaming, ‘No, no, no!’”
“It’s been really difficult because I just, I can’t make sense of anything anymore,” she said.
Blanchard, who was convicted of second-degree murder in 2016 for her role in the death of her abusive mother, said she now feels “lost” without Urker.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard became emotional while speaking about her late partner Ken Urker in her first interview since his sudden death last month (Source: 60 Minutes Australia / YouTube)
Blanchard, 35, broke down while telling 60 Minutes Australia reporter Amelia Adams that she is “still trying to process” Urker’s death (Source: Facebook)
“So much has changed now. I feel like I’m in the dark. We had a plan for everything,” she said, reflecting on the future she had envisioned with Urker.
With tears in her eyes, Blanchard explained: “We were going to do this, and we were going to do that, and everything was going to be okay because he was right by my side. I wouldn’t have to do it alone.”
“And now that’s changed and I feel lost,” she added tearfully.
Urker “was found dead upon arrival,” officials with the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office told Us Weekly last month.
Authorities told the outlet they received a call at 6:15 p.m. on October 1, which was also Urker’s 34th birthday. His official cause of death has not been released.
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In a Change.org petition, Blanchard said that although the “official cause of death is pending toxicology results… we do know with 100% [certainty] that it was not suicide.”
During the interview, Blanchard also rejected any suggestion that she was involved in Urker’s death.
When asked directly whether she had played any role, she responded emphatically: “Absolutely not. No.”
“It’s been really difficult because I just, I can’t make sense of anything anymore,” Blanchard said (Source: 60 Minutes Australia / YouTube)
Blanchard, who was convicted of second-degree murder in 2016 for her role in her abusive mother’s death, said she feels “lost” without Urker (Source: Facebook)
The mother of one said accusations that she was involved in Urker’s death were “disgusting to hear” because “that was the love of my life.”
“That’s the father of my child,” she said. “I’ve known Ken for almost nine years. No other man, no other person, had my heart like he did.”
Blanchard first met Urker after he became her pen pal while she was in prison in connection with the 2015 death of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.
Urker contacted her after watching the 2017 documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest and later visited her in custody. The pair became engaged in October 2018 but separated the following year.
Blanchard later began a relationship with Ryan Anderson, and they married in July 2022 while she remained incarcerated. She was released from prison in late 2023, and the couple split in 2024.
She rekindled her relationship with Urker in 2024. The couple welcomed their daughter, Aurora, on December 28, 2024.
In an Instagram post published on October 2, one day after Urker’s death, Blanchard described him as “an amazing father and a man who was deeply loved.” She wrote: “He will forever be my soulmate and my red string, a connection that time, distance, and even death can never erase.”
