Gypsy Rose Blanchard Officially Files for Divorce After Announcing Separation from Husband
Gypsy Rose Blanchard announced her separation from Ryan Scott Anderson in a statement obtained by PEOPLE from her private Facebook account on March 28
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Ryan Scott Anderson and Gypsy Rose BlanchardGypsy Rose Blanchard has officially filed for divorce after announcing her split from her husband of less than two years, Ryan Scott Anderson, PEOPLE confirms.
The Lafourche Parish Clerk of the Court confirmed the 1:58 p.m. local time filing to PEOPLE in an email.
"The filing has been sent to the assigned Judge for review and to schedule any hearing dates if necessary," Annette M. Fontana, Lafourche Parish Clerk of the Court, says.
Blanchard announced her separation from the Louisiana special education teacher in a statement obtained by PEOPLE from her private Facebook account on March 28, three months after her early prison release.
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“People have been asking what is going on in my life. Unfortunately my husband and I are going through a separation and I moved in with my parents home down the bayou. I have the support of my family and friends to help guide me through this. I am learning to listen to my heart. Right now I need time to let myself find… who I am," the post read.
Blanchard's close friend and tattoo artist Nadiya Vizier, 22, told PEOPLE exclusively that the pair got into a heated argument the night Blanchard decided it was time to end her marriage.
"He got in her face and screamed," Vizier said.
Later 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."
In the days after her separation, Blanchard was spotted with her ex-fiancé Ken Urker, who joined her in getting matching tattoos. The pair were engaged in the years before Blanchard married Anderson.
"They're very cool," Urker's mother Raina Williams previously told PEOPLE of the pair, after confirming they'd reconnected following Blanchard and Anderson's split. "Ken is just being a supportive friend to her."
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Blanchard and Anderson, 37, connected while Blanchard was serving a 10-year prison sentence at Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri after being convicted of second-degree murder for plotting the 2015 killing of her 48-year-old mother Clauddine “DeeDee” Blanchard, with then-boyfriend Nicholas "Nick" Godejohn.
Godejohn was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2019 for fatally stabbing Dee Dee, who Blanchard alleged had abused her for years as a victim of Munchausen by proxy, a form of child abuse that involves a guardian exaggerating or inducing illness to gain sympathy.
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After regularly keeping in touch, Anderson and Blanchard met in June 2021 and subsequently wed in a jailhouse ceremony with no guests in July 2022.
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Ryan Scott AndersonOn Dec. 28, 2023, Blanchard was released from prison on parole. She had qualified for early release after serving eight years of her sentence.
Ahead of her release, Blanchard told PEOPLE she was excited about living with Anderson, but that it would be an adjustment.
“I’ve never lived with a man,” she told PEOPLE. “I grew up with a mom, so I didn’t even grow up with a dad in the house. So, I’m like, ‘I don’t even know what it’s like to live with a man.’”
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Rod Blanchard, Blanchard’s father, said in a 2023 interview with PEOPLE ahead of his daughter’s prison release, that he wished she would have waited to marry.
“I wish she would have came home here and when her being on parole was over, live with him, just live with him, learn him," he said. "She's grown, and she was told what to do all her life. We wish she wouldn't have, but like I told her, if it doesn't work out, I'll be there to help pick up the pieces. I really do hope it does work out. Ryan's a great guy. He loves her for all the right reasons."
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In March, Blanchard removed herself from the spotlight by deleting all of her public social media accounts. A source explained to PEOPLE at the time that she deleted her accounts “at the advisement of her parole officer, so she won’t get in trouble and go back to jail.”
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