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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kaleigh Werner

Gypsy Rose Blanchard explains why her engagement to Ken Urker fell apart in new memoir

Gypsy Rose Blanchard has revealed why her first relationship with Ken Urker ultimately fell apart she was still in prison.

In her new memoir My Time to Stand, which hit shelves on December 10, the 33-year-old opened up about the first time she experienced heartbreak behind bars. Blanchard — who spent eight years in federal prison for the role she played in her mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard’s murder — began talking to Urker, 31, shortly after the HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest was released in May 2017.

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