Ryan Scott Anderson is talking out for the primary time since he and estranged spouse Gypsy Rose Blanchard cut up.
“I’m not doing properly with it,” Anderson, 37, opened as much as the Each day Mail on Friday, April 6. “For me, it simply got here out of the blue.”
Anderson went on to elucidate that he was shocked Blanchard, 32, was noticed in Louisiana together with her ex-fiancé, Ken Urker, to whom she was engaged in 2018 earlier than calling issues off in 2019.
“I had no concept she nonetheless had such sturdy emotions for him,” he informed the publication.
Anderson’s response comes every week after information broke on March 29 that the couple was splitting up after lower than two years of marriage.
In accordance with Folks, Blanchard shared the connection replace on her non-public Fb account in an announcement.
“Folks have been asking what’s going on in my life. Sadly, my husband and I are going by a separation, and I moved in with my dad and mom’ dwelling down the bayou,” she wrote. “I’ve the assist of my household and pals to assist information me by this. I’m studying to take heed to my coronary heart. Proper now, I want time to let myself discover … who I’m.”
The breakup announcement was posted three months after Blanchard was launched from Chillicothe Correctional Heart in Missouri after she had served seven years in jail for plotting the homicide of her mom, Dee Dee Blanchard, in 2015 together with her then boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn.
Following Dee Dee’s loss of life, Gypsy pleaded responsible to second-degree homicide and was sentenced to 10 years in jail. She was granted parole in September 2023, which allowed her to be launched the next December.
Whereas she was behind bars, Gypsy and Dee Dee’s story caught the eye of Hollywood and was documented through numerous TV reveals and flicks, together with HBO’s 2017 documentary Mommy Lifeless and Dearest and the scripted 2019 Hulu miniseries The Act, which starred actress Joey King.
Anderson and Gypsy first linked in 2020 when Anderson despatched her a letter in jail. Two years later, they made issues official and mentioned “I do” in a jailhouse ceremony in July 2022.
Earlier than Gypsy was launched, she informed People who the couple had been planning to have a extra public marriage ceremony ceremony.
“We do plan on having a reception/redo marriage ceremony with all of our household and our pals and the costume and the cake and all the pieces as a result of we deserve that. I deserve that. He deserves that,” she mentioned. “Our jail marriage ceremony was simply one thing to the place we will make our vows to one another. It was one thing that meant one thing to us. And I feel the occasion is type of for everyone else and us, however largely for everyone else.”
Nonetheless, issues modified as soon as the couple moved in collectively, with Gypsy’s good friend Nadiya Vizier alleging {that a} fearful combat could have led to the breakup.
“He received in her face and screamed,” Vizier alleged of the altercation in a brand new interview with Folks revealed on Friday, April 5. She additionally claimed that after Gypsy locked herself in a toilet, Anderson screamed, “‘Let me in! Let me in!” earlier than she known as a relative to choose her up.
“Gypsy mentioned that she was afraid he was going to hit her,” Vizier informed the publication. “He didn’t — however that occurred previously together with her mom. So, her first intuition was to tighten up and be ready. However she received to security and known as her lawyer, too. Ryan is a giant man, and he or she informed me it was actually scary.”
Gypsy reportedly took her belongings and traveled to her father’s home in Minimize Off, Louisiana, after the alleged incident.
Us Weekly has reached out to Anderson and Gypsy’s lawyer for remark