Gypsy Rose Blanchard claimed that her leaked prison phone calls were a “turning point” for Ken Urker before he tragically died on Oct. 1.
The convicted felon, who served time for the second-degree murder of her mom from 2016 to 2023, reflected on the recently released calls with her ex during her time at the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri, and how she told Urker she “hoped” he would overdose during Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes Australia.”
When the interviewer asked if the released audios were a “turning point” for Urker, Blanchard responded, “Absolutely.”
While the felon-turned-influencer responded to that question, she then posed a vague statement: “At what point does someone’s past become?”
Blanchard shied away from discussing which conversations were life-altering for Urker, whom she quietly split from ahead of his death.
However, one audio with her now ex-husband, Ryan Anderson, in March 2021 revealed she told Urker, whom she was in an on-again, off-again relationship with starting in December 2017, to overdose.
“I hope he overdose[s],” Blanchard told Anderson, whom she was married to from July 2022 to December 2024, per a recording obtained by the Daily Mail.
“Even after I told him he could overdose and all that, like, he still kept himself on my email, like, he never took himself off no matter how bad we got into it or how bad it seemed like we were at odds,” she said.
Urker was found dead on his 34th birthday with a handgun, drugs and drug paraphernalia, Page Six previously reported.
Additionally, other phone calls heard Blanchard saying racial slurs while on the phone with Anderson. Blanchard later apologized for her “racist language” in a since-deleted TikTok video posted in August.
Blanchard and Urker started their relationship as pen pals in 2017 before getting engaged the following year.
The exes parted ways for the first time in 2019, and Blanchard went on to date and marry Anderson during her eight-year sentence in July 2022, and split after her release in March 2024.
In April 2024, Blanchard and Urker rekindled their relationship,and they welcomed their daughter, Aurora, that December.
Elsewhere in the “60 Minutes Australia” interview, Blanchard admitted she’s still trying to process Urker’s death, saying, “It’s been really difficult because, I just, I can’t make sense of anything anymore.”
Blanchard also denied being involved with Urker’s death, supporting the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office’s report that “no evidence of foul play” was found at the scene.
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