Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the Missouri woman who spent more than eight years in prison for helping kill her abusive mother, claims in a new documentary series that she was sexually abused by her grandfather as a child. did.
Blanchard, now 32, was released on parole on Dec. 28 after completing 85% of her 10-year sentence for second-degree murder, and has become a national hit in recent weeks since recently revealed sexual assault accusations. It has a heading. Her rebellion against her grandfather added another tragedy to her life story.
“When I was living with my grandpa and step-grandmother…my life changed forever,” Gypsy says in Lifetime's new docuseries “Gypsy Rose Blanchard's Prison Confessions,” released Friday. ” he said in
She continued: “I was sexually abused and molested. 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 perform sexual acts on me. He tried to make me touch him, and he tried to make me touch him. ”
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Dee Dee convinced Gypsy that she had a number of illnesses, including leukemia, and that she was many years younger than her actual age. (Disclosure of evidence in investigation)
Gypsy, a victim of Munchausen syndrome on behalf of her mother, lived with her grandparents in Louisiana after her mother was seriously injured in a car accident when she was around 9 years old.
“I don't think I knew it was a bad thing when I was nine years old, but then my grandfather told me not to tell anyone. He said, 'You don't want your dad in jail. ?’” Gyspy said. From the new documentary series Call to Prison.
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard became an overnight social media sensation after being released from prison last week. (Lifetime/A&E)
Gyspi's grandfather, Claude Pitre, is confronted about the accusations in the series.
“I've never heard of anything like that,” he says of the Gypsy sexual abuse accusations. He also accused Gyspy of attacking him since he was only 4 years old.
“She tries to touch me and I say, 'No, don't do that.' … She started doing it when she was about 4 years old … she was trying to touch me,” Pitre says.
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Experts believe Blanchard's mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy. This syndrome is a mental illness in which one person (in this case Dee Dee) pretends to be sick in order to get attention or goods from another person (Gypsy). out of sympathy for the victim. (Disclosure of evidence in investigation)
When a reporter relayed Gypsy's reaction to her on the show, she told producers that there was “no part of her that would question whether this happened.”
“This is 100% what happened. And he can take it to his grave if he wants, but I'm the only one who won't visit him at his grave,” she said on the show. Ta.
Blanchard, 24, was accused of plotting to kill her abusive mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, in her Missouri home in 2015 with the help of her ex-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016. Godejohn is currently serving a life sentence for the stabbing of Dee Dee.
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Experts believe Dee Dee had it. Munchausen syndrome by proxy, A mental illness in which the perpetrator (often a parent) projects a false illness onto the victim (often a child) in order to receive attention or goods out of sympathy for the victim.
Dee Dee to Gypsy, to her A persistent illness, These include leukemia and muscular dystrophy. She also forced her Gypsy to sit in her wheelchair, took unnecessary medication, shaved her head, and convinced her that she was many years younger than Gypsy's actual age.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard has amassed millions of followers on Instagram and TikTok. (Lifetime/A&E)
When her mother recovered and kicked Gypsy out of her grandfather's house, Gypsy said she felt relieved, but the distance between her family and her mother made her even more controlling, the documentary says. Gypsy says.
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Gypsy's cousin Bobby Pietre described Gypsy's situation with her mother as “Dearest Mama,” a reference to the 1981 psychodrama film about an abusive mother-daughter relationship.
Gypsy said her first day in prison was one of her best memories.
On Tuesday, June 16, 2015, the Greene County, Missouri, prosecutor's office charged Blanchard and Nicholas of Big Bend, Wisconsin, in connection with last week's murder of Claudinea “Dee Dee” Blanchard, 48. – Paul Godejohn was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. (AP)
“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,'” she says in the new show. “You're free to have friends and you're free to do what you want.”
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She later said that while some people called her a “victim” and others called her a “murderer,” there was “much more beneath the surface.”
Part 3 of “Gypsy Rose Blanchard's Prison Confessions'' is scheduled to be released Saturday evening.
