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Gypsy Rose Blanchard said her fiancé Ken Urker died from an overdose and has hinted that cyberbullying might have contributed to his death. Urker died Thursday on his 34th birthday in his bed at his home in Raceland, Louisiana. Blanchard told People on Friday she doesn’t know whether his death was intentional or not but that he “was not in a good state of mind lately.”The Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but they told People that they were called to Urker’s home at 6:15 p.m. Thursday and he was found “dead upon arrival.”Blanchard said Urker was the victim of online harassment, telling People she believes it had a “profound impact” on him. Ken Urker and Gypsy Rose Blanchard. Gypsy Rose Blanchard InstagramOn Sunday, she shared a link to a petition to get a law created that would hold social media platforms accountable for how they handle harassment reports. She called it Kenan’s Law, named after Urker. “Ken was a public figure and experienced an enormous amount of public scrutiny,” Blanchard wrote on the petition.

NEED TO KNOWGypsy Rose Blanchard's partner Ken Urker died at his Louisiana home on his 34th birthday on Oct. 1Three days after his death, Blanchard said that she is turning her "pain into purpose" by launching a petition against "targeted harassment and cyberbullying"She shared a Change.org petition to social media in support of Kenan's Law, an idea she created in an attempt to change "the way social-media platforms handle repeated reports of harassment"Gypsy Rose Blanchard is fighting against "targeted harassment and cyberbullying" after the death of her partner, Ken Urker. Urker died on Thursday, Oct. 1, at his home in Louisiana, she confirmed to PEOPLE. A spokesperson for the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office confirmed that officers were called to a residence in Raceland at around 6:15 p.m., and Urker, 34, was found "dead upon arrival. "Once deputies arrived, they located paraphernalia — specifically syringes and a spoon — in the bathroom next to a brown, powdery substance, according to the sheriff's office report. They also found a syringe, two shot glasses and a handgun on the nightstand next to the bed.

In most stories about prejudice, it tends to be the conservative forces who rally against some progressive threat. Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord” operates with a striking, deep sense of balance in asking us to consider discrimination on a wider plain. Any group can find itself falling into an extremist view, ready to reject “the other.” Mungiu sets the story in Norway with a conservative Christian family who become the persecuted. Like Mungiu’s previous work, it is an intelligent, elegantly constructed drama. You could even say it is a psychological thriller in the purest sense of the term. Its tension comes from the clash of worldviews, and how mere perceptions can set off a firestorm. Renate Reinsve, one of the best international actors now working, and Sebastian Stan disappear in their roles as Lisbet and Mihai, who have recently moved to a rural town in Norway from Romania. Lisbet is Norwegian while Mihai is Romanian, which already raises some eyebrows subtly, since in this corner of Europe the east is still seen as backwards. They have five children, including teenagers Ella (Vanessa Ceban) and Emmanuel (Jonathan Ciprian Breazu) and an infant.