Gypsy Rose Blanchard has made a bombshell about her shocking life since being released from prison.
The 32-year-old, who was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2015 planned murder of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard with her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn, was released from a Missouri prison on December 28 after serving time. It was done. She received seven years of a 10-year sentence.
As a child, Dee Dee made Gypsy pretend to be suffering from diseases such as leukemia and muscular dystrophy, which accidentally forced Gypsy to live in a wheelchair for over 20 years.
Prosecutors in the case believed Dee Dee suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental illness in which parents fabricate their children's illnesses.
Gypsy met Godejohn online, and in 2015 he fatally stabbed Dee Dee while Gypsy hid in a bathroom (Godejohn was charged with first-degree murder and is serving a life sentence in prison. ).
Their story was dramatized on Hulu's The Act, starring Joey King as Gypsy, Patricia Arquette as Dee Dee, and Callum Worthy as Godejohn, and HBO adapted it into the 2017 documentary Mommy. It was featured in “Dead and Dearest”. Gypsy has also published her new book, Release: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom, and she is newlywed to Ryan Anderson, 37.
Over the weekend, Lifetime aired “Gypsy Rose Blanchard's Prison Confessions,” a three-night event featuring interviews with Blanchard, her former doctor, and her family. Here are the biggest bombshells from the documentary series.
She said her mother put a voodoo spell on her.
Gypsy recalled that she first started rebelling against Dee Dee in 2011 when she met a man named Dan at a sci-fi pop culture convention. Soon, she tried to run away from her home to be with him, but she was captured by Dee.
Her mother claimed that as punishment, she chained Gypsy to her bed for two weeks and also placed a “voodoo spell” on her.
“She printed out a picture of Dan, she printed out a picture of me, and she went to the store and got a mason jar and a cow tongue,” Gypsy said.
“She put the cow's tongue in a mason jar with two pictures and a little of my menstrual blood. She buried it in the backyard and said, 'You'll never find love.' I did. You'll never be happy. ' So I think it's true. I think it's true because every time I get close to someone, they move away from me. ”
Going to prison made her feel “free”
“The best memory of my life so far is the day I went to the prison and went to the picnic table and thought, 'I'm free.' I'm free to have friends. I'm free to do whatever I want.” she said.
“It may be a controlled environment, but it’s great.”
She claims Nicholas Godejohn raped her
Gypsy asked Godejohn, now 34, to kill her mother, and Godejohn agreed because his alter ego was a vampire from 500 years ago.
The man asked if he could rape Dee Dee after the act, but Gypsy refused, she claimed.
“I didn't let him rape my mother, so I had to agree to let him rape me,” she claimed. “After Nick killed my mother, he went into the bedroom and told me to remove all the stuffed animals that were on the bed. I knew he was going to have sex with me. was never an illusion. When I yelled, “Stop,” he didn't stop. I called her mother,” she recalled.
As the documentary points out, he was never charged with sexual assault.
Gypsy was sexually abused by her grandfather, she said.
When Gypsy was nine years old, she lived with her grandfather, Claude Pitre Sr., while Dee Dee was recovering from a car accident.
“My grandfather would take me out of his wheelchair and take me to a closet or a shed at the back of the house where he would do woodwork and engage in sexual acts,” she claimed.
“He was touching me and letting me touch him. I don't think I knew it was wrong when I was nine years old. But my grandfather told me not to tell anyone. He says, “You don't want your dad in jail, do you?'' He didn't want to bother him, so he remained silent. ”
Pietre Sr. told Lifetime, “No, never. That's the first time I heard that… She was the one who was trying to touch me.”
Dee Dee allegedly tried to poison her stepmother.
After Gypsy's grandmother died, her grandfather married a woman named Laura Mae. According to Gypsy's cousin Bobby Pitre, Gypsy saw Roundup in the corner of her room and commented, “Oh, that's the vitamins Mommy gives Grandma Laura Mae.” It is said that there was. A slow, painful death. And I guarantee it has a lot to do with Roundup poisoning. ”
Gypsy was addicted to painkillers
After undergoing surgery at age 16, Gypsy was prescribed painkillers, which she became addicted to.
“My mom had a prescription for Vicodin, so when she wasn't looking, I'd go grab one or two from the bottle,” Blanchard said.
“I didn't know what addiction actually was. I just knew it was craving. That was all I could think about. I wanted one more thing.”
She recalled continuing the habit in prison.
“For the first few years of my incarceration, I used drugs to cope,” she said. “I think the first time I started to realize that drugs were available in prison was when I started seeing other women getting high. I got as high as I drank.”
Gypsy tried to kill Dee Dee in 2011
Gypsy tried to run away from Dee Dee in 2011 and packed her bags. When Dee Dee finds out, his mother and daughter clash and Gypsy grabs the gun Dee Dee bought.
“And before I knew it, I was pulling the trigger over and over again,” Gypsy said in the documentary. She realized it was a BB gun, which made her feel relieved “because she didn't mean to kill.”
