Gypsy Rose Blanchard.Photo:ABC/Michael Le Brecht II
ABC/Michael Le Brecht II
Gypsy Rose Blanchardhas met up with herex-fiancé Ken Urkeramid herseparation from husband Ryan Scott Anderson, PEOPLE confirms.
“They are not back together,” Williams says. “They’re very cool. Ken is just being a supportive friend to her and that’s it.”
“I think she’s a sweet girl,” Williams later added. “I think she’s made her mistakes and she’s trying to learn from them like anyone else. And I care a lot for Gypsy and I want to see good things happen for her.”
Williams also said that she and her family have a sympathetic view of Blanchard, stating that she and Urker watchedMommy Dead and Dearestat around the same time and learned of Blanchard’s story from the documentary. After watching, Urker wrote a letter to Blanchard in prison in 2018.
“He asked me before he wrote the letter and I thought it was a great idea just to show the girl that people out there her age can sympathize,” Williams says.
Urker and Blanchard eventually became engaged before splitting up while she was still in prison. (Blanchard told E! Onlinein 2019 that the pair became engaged in 2018.)
“As of right now, there is no plans on a romantic scale right now,” Williams says of Blanchard and Urker’s friendship.
She adds later: “My son has never had any kind of ill intentions towards Gypsy. It devastated him when they broke up the first time. But he truly thought that was what was best for Gypsy.”
Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016 for conspiring to murder her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, with her then-boyfriend,Nicholas Godejohn. Blanchard was released in 2023 after serving eight years of her 10-year prison sentence. Godejohn, who carried out the murder of Dee Dee, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
After Blanchard’s early prison release, she moved in with Anderson to begin their life outside of bars together. However, the pair’s marriage did not come without complications.
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Ryan Anderson and Gypsy Rose Blanchard.Courtesy Gypsy Rose and Ryan Anderson
Courtesy Gypsy Rose and Ryan Anderson
In Blanchard’s 2024 Lifetime docuseriesThe Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, she revealed that she was still in contact with Urker in the weeks leading up to her wedding with Anderson, and she admitted to still having feelings for him.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard.Jamie McCarthy/Getty
Jamie McCarthy/Getty
Blanchard announced her separation from Andersonon social media last week.
Anderson has not made a public statement on the separation.
source: people.com
