Gypsy Rose Blanchard says in her first TV interview since her release that killing her mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, is the “only way” to escape Munchausen's torture by proxy abuse. he claimed.
“I didn't want her to die. I just wanted to get out of my situation, and I thought that was the only way out,” said Blanchard, now 32. Said “Good Morning America” He said this in a sit-down interview that aired on Friday.
Despite years of abuse, she insisted, “I don't think my mother was a monster.”
“She had a lot of demons of her own, and she was battling them.”
Blanchard said her mother forced her for years to pretend she was suffering from a terminal, debilitating disease, forcing her to move around in a wheelchair and use a feeding tube even though she was healthy. He said he was forced to do so.
She was 23 and addicted to prescription painkillers when she and her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, hatched a plan to stab their abusive mother.
“I share this story as a warning to the next person who might find themselves in a situation like mine so they don't follow in my footsteps,” the freed killer said.
Blanchard was released from a Missouri prison last Thursday after serving most of a 10-year sentence for concocting a plot to kill her mother with Godejohn in 2015.
Meanwhile, Godejohn remains in prison, serving a life sentence for the stabbing of Dee Dee. He is prohibited from contacting Blanchard.
When Roberts asked Blanchard in an interview whether he thought it was fair for Godejohn to be allowed to remain free while he was incarcerated, Blanchard said, “We both have a lot of problems.'' I think he regrets it,” he simply replied.
“All I can say is that I have done my time well and he has done his part and I wish him well on his journey.”
Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a mental illness in which parents exaggerate or fabricate their child's illness to gain attention and sympathy.
The former inmate then became a star thanks to the 2017 HBO documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest,” about his mother's murder.
She also published a book, “Release: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom,'' on January 9th, and a three-part Lifetime special, “Gypsy Rose Blanchard's Prison Confessions,'' premiered on Friday. Ru.
She already has over 10 million followers on social media.
Experts now say she could earn up to $100,000 per social media post through endorsement deals, brand partnerships and speaking engagements.
