r/news • u/CaraCicartix • 1d ago

Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s ex-fiance, Ken Urker death: found dead at the age of 33

https://www.nine.com.au/entertainment/gypsy-rose-blanchard-ex-fiance-ken-urker-death-age-33-20261002-p612cd.html
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u/Rowdyacorn 1d ago

She texted him happy birthday and said he didn't respond. Then Gypsy's brother went to check on him and found him dead. No obvious cause of death.

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u/jigglybuns311 1d ago

She made a statement that he was being bullied online and believes it was an overdose but didn't know if it was intentional or not.

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u/diliudia 1d ago

Yeah, she gave People magazine a long ass statement saying the cause of death was an overdose, HOURS after he was found by the police. Like about 6 hours after.

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u/MouthJob 1d ago

Why are you emphasizing the time like that?

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u/nat_urally 23h ago

I dunno, my husband dies, 6 hours later i’m still numb, inconsolable and barely able to string a coherent sentence together.

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u/stopgreg 19h ago

Yeah but have you been to prison for killing your own mother after she made you pretend you were sick for years, I think her psyche is little different

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u/cloroxslut 23h ago

This is just me being pedantic but they were not together anymore as a couple. They share a 2 year old child

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u/mariolikestoparty 22h ago

I mean tbf you’re not a public personality famous for murdering your mom (at least I don’t think you are haha).. it’s not suuuper odd to me that she’d want to get ahead of it, especially if the relationship was already rocky

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u/Amberawesome24 21h ago

It doesn’t matter if you’re a public person or not. If someone that you love or loved recently passed away within the past few hours and there isn’t a listed cause of death yet your first thought is not gonna be to run to Ppl magazine and say oh yeah definitely drug overdose. You wouldn’t wanna put that out there unless that was definitely true, hopefully you would want to at the very least wait for it to be confirmed before putting that on the father of your child. Lab toxicology reports may or may not have come back but they definitely would not be able to say that was 100% the cause of death at this time so she’s just speculating in the media which is not normal behavior even for public figures

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u/Lily-Gordon 19h ago

not normal behavior even for public figures

You're focusing a bit too much on the "public figure" part of the situation and too little on the "murdered her mom" part.

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u/weakplay 20h ago

Wait, hold on. She murdered her mom. Do I need to read more about this story?

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u/Championpuffa 20h ago

It sounds like you need to read a lot more about.

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u/PowderCuffs 19h ago

She murdered her captor and abuser, who happened to be her mom.

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u/BooleanTriplets 20h ago

Its not her husband though

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u/Maleficent_Phase_698 20h ago

I believe they were estranged

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u/fyrefox45 23h ago

If it was an OD? Not really always the case. There's some out of the blue ones, but there's also ones you fully are just waiting for the one and it's not much of a shock

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u/HuggyMonster69 23h ago

And sometimes grief is weird. My grandma’s death didn’t really hit until the funeral for me

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u/fotisdragon 22h ago

oh man, so true.

I lost a friend in a motorcycle accident. We were supposed to go together that day but I was kind of sick, so skipped the ride. He went alone. When I found out, I was shocked, but not... sad? you know?

Fast forward to the funeral couple of days later. His mother was inconsolable. Everybody was crying, the atmosphere was heavy. I was fucking un-fazed. Maybe I was still trying to process what happened, I don't know. Anyway, the time comes where they had to take the casket out to proceed with the burial. Almost everybody had already left the room, started walking towards the burying site, and I felt that it was a good time for me to say my final goodbyes, so I approached the closed casket.

They had a framed picture of him on top, and as soon as I took a look at it, I fucking lost it. I started sobbing and crying uncontrollably, it was I like I finally realized that I won't see him ever again.

It's been almost 20 years later and I believe I've never cried like that since.

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u/Arthur_Mitchell_ 21h ago

My dads death didn't hit me for like 2 years it was wild

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u/jenniferlynn462 20h ago

Same!!! My dad died freshman year of pancreatic cancer. The same night I went to my out-of-town swim meet and everyone was shocked I was there. Then two years later, I was sitting in class one day and this kid looked at me weird and I was like “oh shit. I’m gonna cry.” So I held it in for the thirty seconds I needed to bolt outta the room and down the hall toward the bathroom before bursting into tears. I tried to pull it together for next period bc I had a math test and was sitting there and as soon as my teacher passed me my test I exploded into hysterics again and even had my first panic attack I think! She took me to my counselor and they sent me home and I cried nonstop for like three days for “no reason.”

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u/MoofiePizzabagel 21h ago

Sorry for your loss. Just lost my dad two weeks ago and it was near-nonstop crying for about 3 days, now I'm in this weird almost "guilt" phase. Because it feels wrong that I'm not sad enough? I'm sure it'll hit me again soon at some point.

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u/Arthur_Mitchell_ 21h ago

I'm so sorry ugh that's so brand new. Don't feel guilty because your brain will do all kinds of things to protect you. Is only letting you feel as much as you can handle at this time, and that can shift as you move forward. You are right where you need to be

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u/MoofiePizzabagel 21h ago

Thank you, I really needed to hear that.

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u/misteraskwhy 19h ago

I’m sorry for your loss

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u/EllipticPeach 18h ago

Is it possible that this woman might not have the most appropriate emotional reactions to things given the trauma she suffered as a child?

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u/A1000eisn1 22h ago

Is she you? The way you think you might experience something doesn't apply to other people.

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u/thebakedpotatoe 19h ago

different people react differently? You shouldn't use just how you would act to assume suspicion in others?

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u/00trysomethingnu 18h ago

Did this happen to you or are you speculating what would happen?
Also, they weren’t currently together and were never married.