Ken Urker's Sister Says Gypsy Rose Blanchard Lied About His Death and Their Relationship

Ken Urker, the former partner of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and father of her daughter Aurora, was found dead in his Raceland, Louisiana home on his 34th birthday. Drugs, paraphernalia and a handgun were present at the scene, and a 911 log showed he had threatened suicide shortly before. Blanchard told People she suspects he died from an overdose and remembered him as an amazing father and her soulmate.

Now his sister Autumn Urker is publicly challenging that account, saying Blanchard lied about a birthday text prompting the discovery of Ken’s body. Autumn also claims the two had split more than a month before his death and were never engaged or planning a second child. A source says the exes ended things amicably and were co-parenting Aurora, while Ryan Anderson, Blanchard’s ex-husband, said he was shocked and concerned about both Gypsy and their daughter.

The competing versions of the same relationship have turned a family’s grief into a public dispute. What do you think about families and exes airing these disagreements so openly?