In a brand new interview with PEOPLE, Blanchard opened up about what allegedly went on behind closed doorways along with her and Ryan Scott Anderson that pressured her to name it quits along with her now ex-husband.

“I nonetheless struggled after I first got here out of jail,” Blanchard instructed the outlet of her intercourse life after being launched from Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Facility, the place she served 8 years of a ten yr sentence for her half within the homicide of her mom Dee Dee Blanchard.

On the time, Blanchard was singing one other tune, nonetheless, taking to social media so share how happy she was with Anderson, a Louisiana particular schooling trainer, who she’d tied the knot with when she was behind bars in 2022. Their marriage got here after she and now-boyfriend, Ken Urker, ended their earlier engagement.

She and Anderson would go on to consummate their marriage shortly after her launch, with Blanchard even defending him after he started receiving hate on-line on account of their relationship.

“Do not take heed to the haters,” she commented on considered one of Anderson’s Instagram posts in January. “In addition to, they jealous since you are rocking my world each night time.”

“Yeah, I mentioned it, the D is hearth,” she added.

Now, nonetheless, Blanchard is retracting that assertion, telling PEOPLE, “Ryan and my intercourse life was not excellent. I instructed him privately. Possibly it was an absence of attraction in that space or if I nonetheless wasn’t processing correctly.”

Her feedback come the identical day she formally settled her divorce with Anderson, per TMZ.

Blanchard dished extra on her relationship with intercourse in her forthcoming memoir, My Time to Stand, in addition to the sexual abuse she claims she suffered as a toddler.

The famed sufferer of Munchausen by proxy claimed that her ex, Nicholas Godejohn — who’s at the moment serving a life sentence for her mom’s homicide — additionally abused her. Blanchard moreover opened up about experimenting along with her sexuality in jail, however says she was by no means capable of absolutely benefit from the experiences till reconnecting with Urker.

“When Ken got here into the image once more, you have to perceive there was seven years of constructed up pressure there and it was wonderful,” she says of their first sexual encounter. “I used to be capable of really feel snug with him.”

Although she mentioned her previous sexual trauma nonetheless haunts her at occasions, she added she’s principally “gotten previous that.”

“There are occasions that it is form of like, if I am uncomfortable, I’ll voice that. However I am very open and vocal with Ken about my wants,” Blanchard instructed PEOPLE — and it is led to her best reward, their daughter-to-be.

“That is how we conceived our child woman,” Blanchard added proudly of anticipating little Aurora early subsequent yr.

“I had a fantastic first two trimesters. Superb. No morning illness. It was so peaceable,” she mentioned. “However now that I am in my third trimester and the eighth month, I can not sleep. I can not breathe, I can not do something.”

Together with her parole ending subsequent yr, Blanchard is wanting ahead to motherhood and regaining a little bit of privateness following the media consideration that is surrounded her after her launch from jail.

“I am actually excited to simply clearly deliver her into the world and have lots of household time collectively. I am transitioning to a extra personal life, however it may be a sluggish transition,” she mentioned.

My Time to Stand is out there for preorder now, wherever books are bought.