Speaking to “60 Minutes Australia” in an interview that aired Sunday, November 15, Blanchard recalled collapsing and screaming when she learned Urker had died. “Honestly, I’m still trying to process everything. It’s been really difficult because, I just, I can’t make sense of anything anymore,” she said. She had known him for nearly nine years, from their conversations while she was in prison to becoming parents together.
Asked whether she had played any role in his death, Blanchard replied, “Absolutely not. No.” She called the accusations “disgusting to hear, because that was the love of my life.” The Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office told PEOPLE it “found no evidence of foul play.” After an October 2 autopsy, the parish coroner told NBC News that a definitive cause of death had not been determined. Deputies had gone to Urker’s home for a welfare check after he missed work and stopped answering calls and the door, according to a sheriff’s report obtained by PEOPLE. They found him dead, with drug paraphernalia and a holstered handgun nearby.
Blanchard said Urker had moved out before his death and had struggled with public attention around their relationship. She recalled that online comments included baseless accusations labeling him a child predator, which she said particularly upset him because he was a father. She also cited the release of recorded prison calls between them as a turning point in the scrutiny he faced.
The pair first connected through letters while Blanchard was serving time for her role in the killing of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. They got engaged in 2018, called it off, reconciled in 2019 and later split again. They reconnected in 2024, after Blanchard separated from Ryan Anderson. In the interview, she became tearful describing the plans she and Urker had made and the prospect of raising Aurora without him. “We had a plan for everything,” she said. “I wouldn’t have to do it alone. And now that’s changed, and I feel lost.”
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