“Personally, I give it a 50/50 probability that it should work,” he mentioned on the time. “She might be spontaneous and make a fast determination and simply leap into issues with out pondering.”
Rod defined that he wished she had returned dwelling after her launch as an alternative of instantly transferring in with Anderson in Louisiana.
“I want she would have got here dwelling right here and when her being on parole was over, stay with him, simply stay with him, be taught him,” he mentioned. “She’s grown, and she or he was informed what to do all her life. We want she would not have, however like I informed her, if it does not work out, I will be there to assist choose up the items. I actually do hope it does work out. Ryan’s a fantastic man. He loves her for all the appropriate causes.”
The pair first met when Anderson, a particular schooling trainer from Louisiana, wrote Blanchard a letter in 2020. They later married in a jailhouse ceremony in July 2022.
“We do plan on having a reception/redo marriage ceremony with all of our household and our associates and the gown and the cake and every little thing as a result of we deserve that,” Blanchard mentioned shortly earlier than her launch in December. “I deserve that. He deserves that.”
“Our jail marriage ceremony was simply one thing to the place we are able to make our vows to one another. It was one thing that meant one thing to us,” she continued. “And I believe the occasion is type of for everyone else and us, however largely for everyone else.”