Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s partner, Ken Urker, was found dead at the couple’s Louisiana home, authorities said Thursday.
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Deputies responded to a home in Raceland, around 6:15 p.m., on Oct. 1, where Urker was found “dead upon arrival,” the Laforche Sheriff’s Office told Global News in a statement.
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“We are continuing the death investigation.
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To this point in the investigation, we have found no evidence of foul play,” investigators said, without giving a cause of death.
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Blanchard told People Magazine that she believed Urker, with whom she shares an almost two-year-old daughter, had overdosed, the outlet reported.
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“I don’t know if it was intentional or not,” she said, adding that he had “not been in a good state of mind lately,” and was subjected to intense online criticism.
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“Ken endured an unimaginable level of public scrutiny and relentless cyberbullying across social media platforms, including TikTok and Reddit,” she told the U.S. outlet.
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“The cruelty directed toward him was something no human being should have to endure.”
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“I believe the tremendous weight of that scrutiny and harassment had a profound impact on him, and I hope his passing serves as a reminder that there is a real person behind every screen, every headline, and every comment.”
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“I’m in disbelief.
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I can’t think,” she added.
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“I’ve screamed until my throat burns.”
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Blanchard told People that Urker was “an amazing father and a man who was deeply loved.”
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“He will forever be my soulmate and my red string, a connection that time, distance, and even death can never erase,” she wrote in an Instagram statement on Friday.
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Urker and Blanchard struck up a relationship as pen pals while she was serving a 10-year prison sentence for second-degree murder in the death of her mother, and were briefly engaged in 2018 but went their separate ways a year later.
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Blanchard then married Ryan Anderson while she was still in prison.
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The couple separated shortly after her release in 2023.
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She and Urker reconciled in early 2024 and welcomed their daughter that December.
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After Blanchard’s release from prison, she grew a large social media following and starred in a docuseries called The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
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Blanchard later deleted several of her social media accounts in what she said was an effort to protect her privacy.
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In a since-deleted TikTok video, Blanchard said she felt “regret” for her post-prison press tour and apologized “to all the people that I offended with a lack of accountability.”
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Blanchard, an abuse victim, was handed a 10-year sentence after she encouraged her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to kill her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, in June 2015.
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For years, Blanchard was led to believe by her mother that she had numerous serious diseases, including leukemia, muscular dystrophy and brain damage.
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Gypsy underwent numerous surgeries, used a wheelchair and an oxygen tank and often believed she was fighting for her life.
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After Gypsy’s arrest it was revealed that Dee Dee had fabricated her daughter’s health conditions.
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It is widely believed Dee Dee suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental health disorder that involves a caregiver projecting diagnoses or inducing symptoms in a dependent.
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During her trial, Gypsy admitted that she asked Godejohn, whom she met in 2012 on a Christian dating website, to kill her mother.
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Godejohn fatally stabbed Dee Dee 17 times while she slept in her home, where she and Gypsy lived together.
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During the attack, Gypsy waited in the home’s bathroom with her ears covered.
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