It ended up Gypsy Rose Blanchard and your husband, Ryan Scott Anderson.
On Thursday, the 32-year-old announced via a private Facebook post obtained by People that she and her husband of more than a year separated just three months after she was released from prison.
According to the post, Blanchard is living in her family’s home for now as they explore time apart.
“People have been asking what’s going on in my life. Unfortunately, my husband and I are going through a separation and I have moved in with my parents (sic) in the house on the bayou,” she wrote. “I have the support of my family and friends to help me get through this. I’m learning to listen to my heart. Now I need time to allow myself to find… who I am.”
The update on their relationship comes just months after she was released following a seven-year stint behind bars. pleading guilty in 2016 to the second-degree murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. While in prison, she began corresponding with Anderson and the two were married in July 2022.
She told ET in January that it was the common locality that first attracted her to Anderson, when he sent her letters while she was in prison.
“Ryan’s from Louisiana… and I’m originally from Louisiana, and I saw this, I was like, ‘Oh, hey, someone from my home state!’ So I wrote him a letter and we became friends,” she recalled, “and, of course, more than friends, and now we’re married.”
The couple also told ET that while they were excited to start their lives together — including starting a family — they weren’t rushing into anything and chose to take things one day at a time.
“I don’t have any reservations,” Blanchard said about having children. “We’ve both talked about starting a family, we just don’t know when yet.”
“My life is a little hectic right now. So we’re just trying to take it day by day,” she added. “We’re just trying to start the marriage off on a good foot before we bring the kids into this situation now.”
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