\u201cI can\u2019t think. I\u2019ve screamed until my heart burns.\u201d<\/p>\n
She told TMZ Urker did not have a drug problem, and she \u201chad never seen him partake in drugs or other substances\u201d.<\/p>\n
She claimed an unidentified substance was found where he died, which has prompted her belief that\u2019s what caused his death.<\/p>\n
However, she noted she doesn\u2019t know what the substance was, while remembering him as \u201ca responsible person who was intentional about being a father and partner\u201d.<\/p>\n
The couple welcomed baby girl Aurora into the world in December 2024.<\/p>\n
The Lafourche Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed Urker\u2019s death, telling the Hollywood Reporter they were called at 6.15pm.<\/p>\n
\u201cKenan Urker, 34, was found dead upon arrival. At this time, we are continuing the death investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blanchard has described her late partner as \u201can amazing father and a man who was deeply loved\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe will forever be my soulmate and my red string, a connection that time, distance, and even death can never erase,\u201d she told People.<\/p>\n
Blanchard and Urker met when he started writing her letters in 2017, while she was in prison.<\/p>\n
She was released in 2023, having served eight years behind bars for her role in the second-degree murder of her mother Clauddine \u201cDee Dee\u201d Blanchard.<\/p>\n
He proposed in October 2018 and, after a brief split, the couple reunited in August 2019.<\/p>\n
They later split for several years, during which time Blanchard married Ryan Anderson, the year before her release.<\/p>\n