Ken Urker’s sister, Autumn, has slammed Gypsy Rose Blanchard over what she claims are “lies” about their relationship and the circumstances leading to Urker’s death on Friday.
Urker, 33, was found dead in his Louisiana home on his birthday, with reports at the time claiming Blanchard had sent her former fiance a birthday message before his body was found.
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Now, Autumn has rejected that claim, telling the US Sun that Blanchard “had no right to lie and say that it was because of some text that she sent to him”.
Urker was reportedly discovered by Blanchard’s brother Dylan, who arrived at the home with his wife before calling authorities.
In a tribute shared on social media today, Blanchard – who shares a one-year-old daughter, Aurora, with Urker – described her former partner as her “greatest love story” and “soulmate”.
Autumn denied that characterisation of the pair’s relationship, claiming Blanchard had been telling people “they were engaged and planning a baby number two”, but “none of that was true”.
“They were not together,” Autumn claimed, adding that they had broken up “over a month ago”.
“When he was like, ‘I’m done,’ she’d do a thing, and so it was a fight whenever they split,” Autumn claimed, before describing Blanchard’s tribute as a “slap in the face”.
“It’s a slap in the face. You don’t have to lie and make it seem like something,” Autumn said.
While no official cause of death has been revealed, Blanchard claimed earlier today that Urker suffered an overdose but admitted she didn’t know whether it was intentional.
“He was not in a good state of mind lately,” Blanchard told People.
Blanchard and Urker met as prison pen pals in 2017 while Blanchard was behind bars for her role in the murder of her mother, Clauddine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard.
They got engaged in 2018 and announced their split in 2019, but reconnected in the years since.
While broken up, Blanchard married her now ex-husband Ryan Anderson in 2022 while still in prison. Blanchard and Anderson split a few months after her release in 2024.