The late Ken Urker‘s sister Autumn has condemned Gypsy Rose Blanchard‘s public comments following her ex’s shocking death at age 34 earlier this week.
“We are disgusted with her statements! She hasn’t even called my mother or any of us yet,” Autumn told The Daily Mail in an interview published on Saturday, October 3.
Us previously reported that Urker was found dead on his 34th birthday at his home in Raceland, Louisiana, on Thursday, October 1. A Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesperson confirmed to Us that Urker “was found dead upon arrival” and that there was “no evidence of foul play” at the scene. (A cause of death has yet to be determined.)
Blanchard later told TMZ that she had sent a text message to Urker to wish him a happy birthday on Thursday but did not get a reply. Her half-brother and sister-in-law — Dylan and Anita Blanchard — went to Ken’s residence with his boss Justin Daigle, only to find him unconscious on his bed.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Ken Urker began their relationship as pen pals. Following the 2017 HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest, Urker wrote Blanchard a “letter of support” while she was incarcerated. The twosome kept in touch while Blanchard served her prison sentence and eventually shared a smooch when he visited her in jail. (She […]
Blanchard, 35, spoke out hours after news broke, telling People that she was not sure whether his death was “intentional or not.”
“Ken was an amazing father and a man who was deeply loved. He will forever be my soulmate and my red string, a connection that time, distance and even death can never erase,” Gypsy Rose wrote in a subsequent statement. “Above all, Ken loved our daughter Aurora. She is a beautiful reflection of his enduring spirit, and through her, a part of him will always remain with us. I will make sure she grows up knowing how deeply her father loved her and who he was beyond what strangers on the internet chose to say about him. He will be deeply missed, forever loved and never forgotten.”
Autumn has since accused Gypsy Rose of misrepresenting the facts about her relationship with Ken, claiming they were split up at the time of his death. (Ken and Gypsy Rose originally connected in 2017 after he wrote her a letter of support while she served a prison sentence for pleading guilty to the second-degree murder of her late mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard. Originally splitting in 2018, they reconciled following Gypsy Rose’s separation from ex-husband Ryan Anderson in 2024 and welcomed daughter Aurora later that year.)
“She had to be in the limelight. She had to be that girl. She didn’t care what it cost other people around her,” Autumn said of Gypsy Rose in her latest interview. “She loved all the attention at the expense of everybody around her.”
Ken Urker, daughter Aurora and Gypsy Rose Blanchard Courtesy Instagram / Gypsy Rose Blanchard
She added, “As much hate that she received, she would receive about two times more of support and happy comments telling her to keep doing her, to ignore the haters. Except ignoring the haters got everybody around her to receive death threats, and to be uncomfortable.”
Autumn claimed that Ken told her in their final phone call that he wanted to bring daughter Aurora “back home” to his mother, adding that he felt he’d “failed Aurora because of Gypsy.”
“It was her way or she was screaming at him because he was trying to control her like her mother. Gypsy is not this sweet person,” Autumn alleged.
She remembered her late brother as a “great man” who would “love you” even if you were “broken.”
“He would still fight for you. He tried so hard for Gypsy because he was that person,” Autumn said. “My brother was a good father. A good brother. A good son and a good friend. And we were all lucky and blessed to have known him.”
Us has reached out to Gypsy Rose’s rep for comment.
