Ryan Anderson remains to be processing the whirlwind of his marriage to Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
“I am nonetheless attempting to determine what transpired, like, it occurred two months in the past,” the 38-year-old trainer advised ET’s Deidre Behar in an unique sit-down interview this week. “We have been married and now it is like, I have never seen her.”
The couple’s marriage and subsequent spilt is at the moment taking part in out within the new Lifetime restricted docuseries, Gypsy Rose: Life After Lockup, which follows the controversial public determine as she adjusts to life in the actual world after serving seven years in jail for her function within the homicide of her mom, Dee Dee Blanchard.
Blanchard and Anderson tied the knot whereas she was incarcerated in July 2022, and moved in collectively as husband and spouse following her December 2023 launch. By March 2024, she had introduced the couple’s separation.
“We had a disagreement after which she left and I have never seen her since,” Anderson recalled of the occasions main as much as the break up, including that he is “nonetheless processing” and did not need to share what the couple fought about. “We’re married one minute, and the subsequent she’s gone.”
Including to Anderson’s confusion, he mentioned, is the truth that Blanchard was additionally fast to reunite and rekindle a relationship with her ex, Ken Urker, following their separation. Blanchard and Urker met by means of a jail pen pal program and bought engaged in 2019. Following their break up, Blanchard and Anderson related and ultimately married.
“I am blindsided by how briskly the method went,” he shared. “I’m blindsided about how briskly it was like, ‘I am going to stick with my dad and mom for the weekend,’ after which it is, ‘I am by no means coming again’… to now, ‘I am with Ken and in love with him. He is my soulmate and also you have been simply married to me per week in the past.'”
Throughout his interview with ET, Anderson wavered when requested about the way forward for his relationship with Blanchard. He revealed that the estranged pair have stayed in contact since their break up. “Nothing like all evening on the cellphone speaking,” he clarified, “however I imply, we nonetheless talk.”
He additionally shared that he was confused when Blanchard DMed him lately to point out off her new look — after having beauty surgical procedure and altering her hair by doing a giant chop and including highlights.
“I query that to this present day… It makes you marvel, ?” he admitted. “With Gypsy, [you] all the time get combined messages.”
Nonetheless, he mentioned he has no need to speak issues out with Urker, including that he believes “in hindsight” that Blanchard was “presumably” speaking to her ex whereas telling Anderson that she wasn’t.
“He would not need to see me,” Anderson mentioned of Urker. “He would not need to catch me in public, that is all I am saying.”
The trainer had “no remark,” when requested what he’d inform Urker if he watches his ET interview. Nonetheless, he had some terse phrases for his ex.
“She is aware of what occurred,” he acknowledged. “She is aware of the reality.”
Amid some arduous emotions, nonetheless, Anderson insisted that, when it got here to the breakdown of his relationship with Blanchard, “love was by no means our challenge.”
“The love me and Gypsy have for one another by no means went away,” he continued. “We nonetheless care about one another, we nonetheless have love for one another, simply issues bought in the best way. Life occurs, ? She’s attempting to determine who she is and numerous stuff is going on.”
“I simply query issues to this present day,” he added. “When me and Gypsy communicate, I am gonna nonetheless have my moments the place I am like, possibly, however you by no means know.”
Regardless of the love that continues to be, Anderson not wears his marriage ceremony ring, and bought candid with ET concerning the moments that took a severe emotional toll on him.
“There’s a lot harm as been executed, ?” he shared. “The matching tattoos broke my coronary heart — that killed me, and that is a type of issues that was very everlasting. It is a type of issues you may’t take again.”
Shortly after her divorce submitting, Blanchard and Urker have been noticed spending time with one another, and even appeared collectively in a TikTok stay the place they confirmed off “recent” matching tattoos.
And whereas Anderson is “nonetheless processing” every thing that is occurred, he mentioned he is gaining extra readability.
“I see modifications which have occurred. She’s positively not the woman that I fell in love with,” he mentioned of his ex. “I nonetheless covet that woman that I fell in love with, and I want she was there.”
As for whether or not Life After Lockup viewers will get to see the reality of what actually went down between the previous couple, Anderson appeared cautious to be optimistic.
“You may get to piece numerous it collectively by means of the documentary,” he admitted. “There’s nonetheless gonna be numerous on-line questions from individuals, ‘trigger I am nonetheless questioning issues [myself].”
Gypsy Rose Blanchard: Life After Lockup airs Mondays at 9 p.m. PT/ET on Lifetime.
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