Who is Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s husband Ryan Anderson?
Ryan is a middle school special education teacher from Louisiana, according to their marriage certificate obtained by People.
How did Gypsy Rose Blanchard meet husband Ryan Anderson?
Ryan had watched the 2017 HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest about Dee Dee’s murder. So, when his coworker told him in 2020 about writing a letter to Tiger King subject Joseph “Joe Exotic” Maldonado-Passage, Ryan decided to do the same but to Gypsy.
“I said, ‘I’ll tell you what, if you write him, I’ll write Gypsy Rose Blanchard.’ And I had watched her documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest, like three years before that,” he told People. “And then The Act had came out and I’ve never watched The Act, but I remember my friends talking about The Act and I was like, I’ll watch the documentary again. So it was kind of fresh on my mind.”
By May 2020, the two had begun regularly emailing back and forth.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gypsy acknowledged she experienced “a lot of emotional ups and downs” at the time. “Unfortunately, it put the prison in a position to where it restricted our freedom even more,” she told People. “So Ryan has seen me through some really good times, some really hard times.”
