(news nation) — Gypsy Rose Blanchard He was released from a Missouri prison last week. After serving eight years in prison, she shared a message with her supporters on social media.
“I'm finally free,” she said in a video posted over the weekend. on TikTok and Instagram.
Blanchard, 32, has spent much of the past decade in prison after admitting in court that she asked her ex-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, to kill her mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard. Spent time in prison. Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Godejohn was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for his role in Dee Dee Blanchard's death.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard said years of physical and psychological abuse led her to commit the 2015 crime.
Throughout Gypsy Rose Blanchard's childhood, her mother fabricated her symptoms and gave her false medical diagnoses and treatments for diseases such as leukemia and muscular dystrophy. She was forced to use her wheelchair and a feeding tube, neither of which she needed.
Last week, Blanchard's attorney, Mike Stanfield, told Nexstar's KOLR that her release from prison ” A very nice ending to a very long story”
Since being released a few days after Christmas, Blanchard has been busy posting about her new life. Blanchard married Ryan Scott Anderson, a special education teacher in Louisiana, while he was in prison, but now uses his married name on his new social media accounts. Recently, she has been celebrating her freedom by going shopping with her family and her new husband, taking a hot spring trip, and celebrating with a welcome home party.
“I'm glad to be home,” Blanchard said in the video. “I'm back home in Louisiana. It's a beautiful day outside, and a lot of great things are about to happen.”
These “amazing things” include a new Lifetime documentary series called “The Great Thing.”Gypsy Rose Blanchard's Prison Confessions” Scheduled to be broadcast on January 5th, New e-book.
“This is not a rehash of everything that happened,” Blanchard said of the book. “This is a reflection of everything I've learned. Thank you everyone for your support and please keep watching.”
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