Gypsy-Rose Blanchard and her boyfriend Ken Urker welcomed their first youngster, daughter Aurora, in December 2024, however regardless of being in love and having fun with being first-time mother and father, the couple nonetheless reside aside.
Blanchard opened up concerning the state of affairs on the Monday, Could 19 episode of her Lifetime actuality sequence, Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up, the place she defined she isn’t allowed to reside in the identical family as Urker till her parole is up. Her parole is scheduled to finish on June 25, 2025.
“Every little thing is day-to-day proper now,” Blanchard mentioned within the episode, per EOnline. “So, we’re simply winging it. It’s onerous to maintain up a relationship everytime you’re residing in two separate locations, and also you’ve received schedules that intervene.”
Blanchard served seven years in jail for her position within the loss of life of her mom, Dee Dee. Her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, killed Dee Dee on June 9, 2015. Godejohn was sentenced to life in jail, whereas Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in jail for second-degree homicide. She was launched on parole in December 2023.
Rising up, Blanchard was a sufferer of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a dysfunction the place a mum or dad or guardian both makes up faux signs or causes actual signs to make it appear like the kid is sick.
Urker additionally opened up concerning the present residing state of affairs in Monday’s episode, saying, “Gypsy’s been gone all week, and my little Aurora isn’t dwelling. It positively feels somewhat miserable round the home. I really feel like I’ve no goal through the daytime earlier than work. I really feel like I’ve to search out issues to occupy my time. It’s very lonely.”
The episode additionally noticed Blanchard writing down a bucket record of issues she needs to do as soon as her parole is over. “Transfer in with you,” she instructed Urker whereas writing the record, which additionally included issues like ingesting at a bar, touring to Hawaii, Las Vegas, and Iceland, and talking about jail reform to prisoners.
“We are able to all be a household beneath one roof lastly,” Urker mentioned of Blanchard’s parole ending. “That’s the largest one.”
He continued to speak about Blanchard’s upcoming “freedom” because the pair went on a date to a nature museum, the place Blanchard launched a butterfly into the wild. Talking on what seeing Blanchard launch the insect meant to him, Urker mentioned, “Freedom, popping out into the world and truly with the ability to get pleasure from it, one thing that Gypsy’s by no means actually been in a position to do.
“And it’s going to get even higher in just a few months when she’s off parole,” he added. “We are able to truly journey and get to see extra stuff. She’s been the very best mom I may ever need for my youngster.”
Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up, Season 2, Mondays, 9/8c, Lifetime
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