Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s estranged husband Ryan Anderson has broken his silence on their split.
The 32-year-old announced their separation last month, almost two years after they tied the knot behind bars.
Ryan has since shared an update on how he’s doing on TikTok, and thanked fans for their support.
@theryanandersonThank you for the support…♬ original sound – TheRyanAnderson
In one video, the 37-year-old said: “Hey everybody, I just want to say thank y’all for the support and the nice messages I’ve been getting from people.”
“”I’m at a friend’s watching WrestleMania right now, it’s great. I’m enjoying it. I’ve been a wrestling nerd for a long time.”
“I’m just living my life, guys,” he added.
Gypsy announced her split from Ryan at the end of March, three months after she was released from prison – where she served seven years behind bars for her role in the 2015 murder of her mother.
In a statement on her private Facebook account, she wrote: “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.”
According to Ryan, their split will be addressed in her upcoming Lifetime docuseries Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up, which is set to be released in June.
In the TikTok video, he said: “Y’all will see what really happened on Lifetime. We were filming a lot.”
Since their split, Gypsy has been spotted spending time with her ex-fiancé Ken Urker.
Just last week, the pair got matching husky dog tattoos as a “symbol for their strong bond.”
However, in an interview with People, Ken’s mother Raina Williams denied that any flame had reignited between her son and Gypsy.
“They are not back together, they’re very cool. Ken is just being a supportive friend to her and that’s it,” she said.
“I think she’s a sweet girl, I think she’s made her mistakes and she’s trying to learn from them like anyone else.”
“I care a lot for Gypsy and I want to see good things happen for her. As of right now, there is no plans on a romantic scale right now.”
“My son has never had any kind of ill intentions towards Gypsy. It devastated him when they broke up the first time. But he truly thought that was what was best for Gypsy,” she concluded.
Raina also added that her family watched the documentaries about Gypsy’s life and felt sympathetic towards the young woman.
Gypsy pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard back in 2015, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The Missouri native plotted with her online boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, to kill her mother after she had forced her to pretend for years that she was suffering from leukemia, muscular dystrophy and other serious illnesses.
Godejohn fatally stabbed Dee Dee with a knife her daughter gave him, and the pair were later arrested hundreds of miles away in Wisconsin – where he lived.
He was sentenced to life in prison without parole for her murder in 2019, following his trial conviction.
Following her arrest, it was revealed that Dee Dee had fabricated all of her daughter’s medical issues and that Gypsy was a victim of Munchausen by proxy syndrome — a rare form of abuse in which a guardian exaggerates or induces illness in a child for attention and sympathy.
Dee Dee had convinced everyone in their lives that she was a terminally ill teenager with the mind of a 7-year-old, who suffered from muscular dystrophy, leukemia and other ailments.
Gypsy was forced to use a wheelchair, feeding tube and an oxygen tank even though she could walk and had no health issues.
She reached a plea deal with prosecutors due to the abuse she had suffered, which meant a 10-year sentence in exchange for pleading guilty.
The case sparked huge media interest, and inspired a number of documentary series and TV shows – including HBO’s 2017 documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest, the 2019 Hulu miniseries The Act, and an upcoming Lifetime docuseries The Prison Confession of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
Back in December, Gypsy walked out of Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri having served over seven years of her 10-year sentence.
Speaking to PEOPLE ahead of her release, the 32-year-old said: “No one will ever hear me say I’m proud of what I did or I’m glad that she’s dead. I’m not proud of what I did. I regret it every single day.”
“She didn’t deserve that,” she said of her mother’s killing. “She was a sick woman and unfortunately I wasn’t educated enough to see that. She deserved to be where I am, sitting in prison doing time for criminal behavior.”
