Gypsy Rose Blanchard obtained again collectively together with her ex-fiancé Ken Urker after her break up from husband Ryan Anderson — however she didn’t depart her husband for her ex.
Blanchard, 32, solely instructed Us Weekly on Wednesday, Might 29, that Urker “truthfully wasn’t” the explanation she filed for divorce from Anderson in April. Nonetheless, she admitted that her historical past with Urker was some extent of competition in her marriage.
“It was, I believe, an insecurity that was there for a really very long time,” she stated. “I referred to as Ken two weeks earlier than I obtained married. Ken has constantly been introduced up in a manner that I can by no means let go of my emotions, however I put them on the again burner to do what was greatest for my marriage. And so, having that be some extent of competition has been a thread all through, however I didn’t depart Ryan for Ken. That was simply type of a realization [of], ‘Hey, we nonetheless love one another after the very fact.’”
Blanchard met each Urker and Anderson whereas serving time in jail for the second-degree homicide of her mom, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, who allegedly abused her all through her childhood.
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Gypsy and Urker linked by a pen pal program. They obtained engaged in 2018 however break up the next 12 months. Gypsy went on to marry Anderson in 2022 when she was nonetheless in jail. She instructed Us that viewers will see on her upcoming Lifetime sequence, Gypsy Rose: Life After Lockup, that a number of components contributed to her and Anderson’s break up.
“It had been over time and persons are going to see there was not only one set factor that led to that call. It was a mix of a bunch of issues, [for example] that I wasn’t comfortable and I needed to be comfortable,” she defined. “I believe so many ladies might in all probability relate to that, the place it’s like, you need this relationship to work and so that you stick it out, and then you definately get up in the midst of the night time and also you’re like, ‘I’m not comfortable. The opposite particular person is, however I’m not and I’m residing in my physique. I’m the one which has to stroll my path and it’s not truthful to the opposite particular person to steer them on any additional.’”
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Though their marriage didn’t work out, Gypsy has no ill-will towards Anderson. She clarified that the restraining order she filed towards him in April relies solely on funds and isn’t a no contact order.
“Now we have been in communication sparingly since I filed [for divorce], and I want him the perfect,” she stated. “Proper now now we have chosen to not talk anymore, simply because I believe it’s in all probability greatest for our therapeutic at this level, and we’re going to be going by the divorce and wishing one another one of the best. … I do know the harm is there, however hopefully we will transfer on from that and consider one another fondly sooner or later.”
Now that Gypsy has rekindled her reference to Urker — she confirmed their romance in April — she plans to study from the connection classes she realized with Anderson.
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“[Ken and I] met at some extent in our life the place I don’t assume it could’ve labored out at that time as a result of we had a number of life and maturing to do. And so now that we’ve had a pair extra years underneath our belt, we’re reconnecting,” she stated. “I’m studying about relationships and I can take what I’ve realized of what to do [and] what to not do from my relationship with Ryan and apply that to my relationship with Ken going ahead, realizing what I’ll stand for [and] what I received’t stand for. Mutual respect is tremendous essential.”
Gypsy can also be open to the concept of strolling down the aisle once more at some point.
“I undoubtedly assume that marriage is one thing that I’m open to once more. I’ve to get divorced first,” she quipped. “We’re making an attempt to take it sluggish proper now. As for youths, sure, completely I need children sometime. I believe that I’m going to be an excellent mom. I believe Ken could be an exquisite father, and so we’ll see what the long run holds for us.”
Gypsy Rose: Life After Lockup premieres on Lifetime Monday, June 3, at 9 p.m. ET.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
