NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Gypsy Rose Blanchard is turning her “pain into purpose” after the sudden death of her partner, Kenan “Ken” Urker. Urker died at his home in Louisiana on his birthday on Thursday, October 1, Fox News Digital confirmed. He was 34 years old. Blanchard, 35, explained that Urker experienced “an overwhelming amount of online scrutiny” before her death, and pleaded with her social media followers to sign an anti-harassment petition in her honor. GYPSY ROSE BLANCHARD’S PARTNER KEN URKER FOUND DEAD INSIDE HIS LOUISIANA HOME: SHERIFF Gypsy Rose Blanchard broke her silence on the sudden death of her partner, Kenan “Ken” Urcher. (Jesse Grant) “I only have my daughter and my voice,” Blanchard shared on social media over the weekend. “In honor of Ken, I ask for your support of Kenan’s Law.” “Prior to his passing, Ken experienced an overwhelming amount of online scrutiny and what we believed crossed the line into targeted harassment and cyberbullying.” Blanchard claimed that “reports were made on multiple platforms,” but noted that “too often, the response was simply, ‘No rape.'” “The Kenan Law seeks to change the way social media platforms handle repeated harassment complaints,” he wrote. “One post viewed alone may not tell the whole story, but hundreds of posts, videos and comments directed at one person may reveal a pattern that deserves significant review.” CHAD LOWE’S DAUGHTER MABEL SHARES HEARTBREAKING TRIBUTE to late sister Fiona, 13 “This is not about silencing criticism or taking away anyone’s freedom of speech. Public figures can and should be criticized. But public figures are still human beings, and fame should never erase someone’s humanity. Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s boyfriend was found dead Thursday in her Louisiana home (Gotham/GC Images). She added: “Ken’s passing has decided me to turn pain into purpose. I can’t change what happened, but I can advocate for a better system for the next person who feels like no one is listening.” Blanchard asked her followers to “sign and share” the petition, before noting: “Fame doesn’t erase humanity. A pattern can’t always be understood one post at a time.”LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS In a statement to PEOPLE, Blanchard said she believes Urker died of a drug overdose. “I don’t know if it was intentional or not,” Blanchard told the outlet. “He wasn’t in a good frame of mind lately.” The Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Urker was found. dead inside her Louisiana home on Thursday after her loved ones requested a welfare check, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, 32, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016, when she was 24, for her role in plotting to kill her abusive mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, in her Missouri home in 2015 with the help of her ex-boyfriend at the time (Lifetime/A&E Fue). to the 34-year-old’s home and saw Urker unconscious from an outside window, according to an incident report. A man accompanying Anita Blanchard and her husband entered the home through a window and found Urker, who was not breathing and cold to the touch, according to the report. Investigators recovered syringes and a spoon along with a brown powdery substance in the bathroom, as well as a gun, two shot glasses and a syringe on a nightstand next to the bed, according to the report. report.states.GET TOP ENTERTAINMENT STRAIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE Deputies noted that Urker “appeared to have been there for an extended period of time.” under investigation, but “no signs of.” “Foul play.” Thursday was Urker’s 34th birthday. TEST YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE “If that ever changed, or there were any major updates to this investigation, we would issue a new statement,” the sheriff’s office said Gypsy Rose Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in prison for second-degree murder in 2016 for her role in the fatal stabbing. of her mother, Clauddine. “Dee Dee” Blanchard, along with her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn, inspired the 2019 television series “The Act” on Hulu. Godejohn was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Blanchard was released on parole in December 2023 after serving 85% of her sentence CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP imprisoned, but later separated. after her first marriage and welcomed her daughter, Aurora, on December 28, 2024. Tracy Wright is an entertainment reporter for Fox News Digital. Send story tips to Tracy.Wright@fox.com.
