Gypsy Rose says prison phone leaks with ex were ‘turning point’ for Ken Urker before his death

Gypsy Rose Blanchard has claimed her leaked prison phone calls were a “turning point” for Ken Urker before his tragic death on October 1.

The convicted felon, who served time for the second-degree murder of his mother from 2016 to 2023, reflected on recently released calls with his ex during his time at Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri, and how she told Urker she “hoped” he overdosed during Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes Australia.”

When the interviewer asked if the broadcast audios were a “turning point” for Urker, Blanchard responded, “Absolutely.”

As the criminal-turned-influencer answered this question, she then asked a vague statement: “At what point does someone’s past become?”

Blanchard was reluctant to discuss the life-changing conversations with Urker, from whom she had quietly separated before her death.

However, an audio with her now ex-husband, Ryan Anderson, in March 2021 revealed that she told Urker, with whom she was in an on-again, off-again relationship starting in December 2017, to overdose.

“I hope he overdoses,” Blanchard told Anderson, to whom she was married from July 2022 to December 2024, according to a recording obtained by the Daily Mail.

“Even after I told him he might overdose and all that, he stayed on my emails, he never backed out, no matter how much we engaged or how much it seemed like we disagreed,” she said.

Urker was found dead on his 34th birthday with a handgun, drugs and drug paraphernalia, Page Six previously reported.

Additionally, in other phone calls, Blanchard would utter 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 began their relationship as pen pals in 2017 before getting engaged the following year.

The exes first split in 2019, and Blanchard continued to date and marry Anderson during his eight-year sentence in July 2022, and separated after his release in March 2024.

In April 2024, Blanchard and Urker rekindled their relationship and they welcomed their daughter, Aurora, in December.

Elsewhere in the “60 Minutes Australia” interview, Blanchard admitted she was still trying to understand Urker’s death, saying: “It’s been really difficult because, I can’t understand anything anymore. »

Blanchard also denied being involved in Urker’s death, supporting the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office report that “no evidence of foul play” was found at the scene.