Gypsy-Rose Blanchard Gets Emotional in First Interview Since Ken Urker’s Death

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard is speaking out after the death of her partner Ken Urker, saying she “can’t make sense of anything” following the tragedy.

In a 60 Minutes Australia segment, her first interview since Urker’s death a month and a half ago, Blanchard recalled finding out he was gone. “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.’”

For Gypsy-Rose — who allegedly suffered years of abuse by mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard and served years of prison time for her role in Dee Dee’s murder — the relationship with Urker, with whom she welcomed daughter Aurora, seemed like the start of a happily-ever-after.

“After everything that I had been through in my life, I’m like, finally, I have such a sweet man next to me,” she said. “All that’s missing is the white picket fence and the dog and the kitten and the big house and everything, but we had all the makings of that.”

Now the Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up star is “still trying to process everything,” she told 60 Minutes Australia. “It’s been really difficult because I just I can’t make sense of anything anymore,” she added.

Gypsy-Rose also said she “absolutely [did] not” have anything to do with Urker’s death, despite what she calls “disgusting” internet speculation to the contrary. “That was the love of my life,” she contended. “That’s the father of my child. I’ve known Ken for almost nine years. No other man, no other person had my heart like he did.”

But Gypsy-Rose’s notoriety and public image took a toll on Urker and their relationship, 60 Minutes Australia notes. And Gypsy-Rose thinks Urker “[being] called a child predator for no reason” pushed him over the edge. “That was one that really got to him because he’s a father,” she said. “People had been calling him that since the start of our relationship in 2017 because they would look at me, and they’re like, ‘She’s small in stature. She has kind of a high-pitched voice. It’s kind of childlike. Well, he must be into that kind of thing, huh?’”

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60 Minutes Australia also reports that the release of hours of prison phone calls between Urker and Gypsy-Rose sent him into a spiral of alcohol and drug abuse.

“That was the point in which it’s kind of like, at what at what point does someone’s past become too much to take?” Gypsy-Rose revealed. “And that’s why there are those that say, ‘Ken would still be alive had he not been in a relationship with you, ’cause he wouldn’t have had the online scrutiny if he wasn’t with you.’”

Sheriff’s deputies found Urker dead from an apparent drug overdose in his home in Raceland, Louisiana, on October 1, according to NBC News. In memory of the 34-year-old, Blanchard has been campaigning for more comprehensive anti-cyberbullying action with proposed legislation titled Kenan’s Law.