Gypsy-Rose Blanchard Finalizes Divorce from Ex Ryan Scott Anderson, Says She Was 'Settling' for Him (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard and Ryan Scott Anderson.Photo:JC Olivera/WireImage; Jamie McCarthy/Getty

JC Olivera/WireImage; Jamie McCarthy/Getty

Gypsy-Rose Blanchardand ex-husbandRyan Scott Andersonhave finalized their divorce.

Blanchard, 33, announced the couple’s separation in a Facebook post on March 28,PEOPLE exclusively reported. A friend of Blanchard’spreviously revealed to PEOPLEthat the split happened after a heated argument in March and that Blanchard thought her husband was “controlling.”

“He got in her face and screamed,“friend Nadiya Vizier, 23, said exclusively in April to PEOPLE.Adding: “Gypsy said that she was afraid he was going to hit her. He didn’t — but that happened in the past with her mother. So, her first instinct was to tighten up and be prepared. But she got to safety and called her lawyer, too. Ryan is a big guy, and she told me it was really scary.”

Anderson, 38, has denied such behavior.

“I did extend the offer to have a civil conversation for closure purposes,” Gypsy-Rose says exclusively to PEOPLE now about her divorce from Anderson on Dec. 9. “I’m currently waiting on a response. He waived his right to attend [the court date].”

Anderson’s attorney Randy J. Fuerst said in a statement to PEOPLE: “Ryan Anderson was aware that the divorce was taking place today. He’s always conducting himself as a gentleman and a good husband. He did not seek this divorce but is now glad that this saga in his life is over and he looks forward to a healthy new beginning.”

Blanchard says the two have since worked out their financial disagreements in court. Attorney Fuerst adds that they have decided against spousal support, however the division of community property is still being worked out.

Looking back, Gypsy-Rose admits that after her disagreement with Anderson in March, she realized it wasn’t working out for the long haul.

“It was kind of like my first shock of holy crap. I’m married,” she says.

After some time, she knew it wasn’t the kind of marriage she wanted. “It’s kind of like, okay, well, you know that you’re settling — that you’re kind of pushing on to just do what everybody else does in life, but you’re just settling,” she says.

Anderson and Blanchard connected while she was serving a 10-year prison sentence at Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri after being convicted ofsecond-degree murderfor plotting the 2015 killing of her 48-year-old mother Clauddine “DeeDee” Blanchard, with then-boyfriendNicholas “Nick” Godejohn. The couple tied the knot in a jailhouse ceremony with no guests in July 2022.

In an interview with PEOPLE ahead of her early release in December 2023, Blanchard said she planned to marry the Louisiana middle school special education teacher again after herbeing released on parole. But three months later on March 28, she decided to separate from Anderson.

Soon after, Blanchard was spotted with her ex-fiancéKen Urker, who joined her ingetting matching tattoos. The pair were engaged in the years before Blanchard married Anderson. She says that when Urker and her reunited, she “got to understand there was seven years of build up tension there and it was amazing” to reconnect.

“I felt a soul connection with Ken where I felt like I could be myself, " Blanchard added. “I didn’t have to pretend to be anything. I didn’t have to hide the trauma that I had went through. I could open up about that stuff. We’re doing really good.”

Ken Urker and Gypsy-Rose Blanchard.Ken Urker/Instagram

Ken Urker/Instagram

“I’m in love,” she previouslytold PEOPLEof her relationship with Urker, who initiallyreconnected with her as a friend. “He was a support when I was going through emotional hardship. But then I let myself open up to the feelings I’ve always had for him. For the first time in my life, I’m doing something that makes me happy — I’m prioritizing me.”

The Gypsy Rose: Life After Lockupstar also toldPEOPLE last monthwhat she’s looking forward to the most about motherhood: “Giving my daughter a happiness I never knew growing up.”

While celebrating the pregnancy with Urker, Blanchard is also filming a new season ofGypsy Rose: Life After Lock Upand will release her memoir,My Time to Stand, on Dec. 10.

As for her future with Urker, Blanchard says she’s focused on her pregnancy. “I had a great first two trimesters. Amazing. No morning sickness. It was so peaceful,” she says. " But now that I’m in my third trimester and the eighth month, I can’t sleep. I can’t breathe, I can’t do anything.”

And while the pair have spoken about plans to get married, they’re looking forward to being parents and enjoying their relationship together. “I’m very open with Ken about my needs,” she says. “I’m just able to be comfortable with him.”

source: people.com