Gypsy Rose Blanchard's e-book memoir, released Tuesday, includes some shocking revelations about her relationship with her mother, her childhood, her faith, and more.
Gypsy, now 32, was released from a Missouri prison on Dec. 28 after completing 85 percent of his 10-year sentence for killing his mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, with the help of his ex-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn. He was released on parole. , 2015.
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Now, Gypsy is telling it all in her new memoir, Release: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom. The most shocking fact is revealed in this book.
Gypsy shares letter to mother
Gypsy begins her memoir with a letter she writes to her mother as an exercise for a required prison class called “The Effects of Crime on Victims Class.”
Gypsy Rose Blanchard was charged with second-degree murder in 2016 for plotting to kill her abusive mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, in her Missouri home in 2015. pled guilty. (Lifetime/A&E)
“Now that I have the answers I was looking for, I have finally been able to let go of the grudge I had against you and forgive you. I am so sorry that I played a role in your death.” “I want to tell you that murder was never the answer or solution,” she wrote. “Not a day goes by that I don't think of you. I will carry this feeling of regret and remorse with me for the rest of my life.”
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She continued, “I will always love you for bringing me into this world, and with love for the woman I know was a good person behind her mental illness. You'll remember it,” he continued.
Dee Dee is believed to have suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy (also known as falsity disorder imposed on others), a form of child abuse.
Dee Dee Blanchard is believed to have suffered from Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (also known as Imposed Deception Disorder), a form of child abuse. (Lifetime/A&E)
The Cleveland Clinic describes it as “a mental illness in which people behave as if the person they care for has a physical or mental illness when in fact they are not ill.”
Dee Dee tricks Gypsy into believing she has multiple illnesses, including leukemia and muscular dystrophy, and forces her to shave her head, sit in a wheelchair despite her ability to walk, and eat with a feeding tube in her stomach. I forced it. Dee Dee also convinced Gypsy that she was many years younger than her actual age.
Dee Dee used her daughter's wheelchair to shoplift.
Now that she is an adult, Gypsy realizes that she experienced deception every day due to her mother's mental illness. One of her examples of that deception was Dee Dee's insistence that her daughter use her wheelchair even though she could walk.
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Gypsy goes on to say in her memoir that Dee Dee shoplifted with Gypsy in a wheelchair when Gypsy was “very young.”
“When you're sitting in a wheelchair, it's easy for things to hit your lap or get shoved under your princess dress.”
“And for items that can't sit or hide under a beanie, my mom taught me how to replace the barcodes. Peel the barcode sticker off the cheaper item and stick it on top of the more expensive item. , then use the self-checkout lane.'' Gypsy wrote.
As part of Munchausen syndrome by proxy and the fabricated illness that Dee Dee gave her daughter, the two received a lot of positive attention from the Springfield, Missouri community. (Lifetime/A&E)
She said one of the bedrooms in her mother's house was “full of stuff” and so crowded that Gypsy had to “cut” her own passage leading from the bed to the door.
As part of Munchausen syndrome by proxy and the fabricated illness that Dee Dee gave her daughter, the two received a lot of positive attention from the community in Springfield, Missouri. They also received large donations from various charities, including a home from Habitat for Humanity and a vacation from the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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Thanks to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, one of the gifts donated to Gypsy was a laptop.
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The nonprofit research organization gave Gypsy a laptop for Christmas when she was 18 (though the charity thought she was 13, according to her memoir). She said it was then that she searched the internet on her own and realized for the first time that she had “free will”.
Blanchard, now 32, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for second-degree murder in 2016 when she was 24, but under Missouri law, she is eligible for parole after serving 85% of her sentence. Ta. (Disclosure of evidence in investigation)
“When my mother was kicked out of Ambien, I went looking for information about the outside world: what my friends were doing together, what relationships were like, how to kiss, ten “How the teens spent their day, what the kids in the classroom were doing, and how they were doing. The teens talked,” she wrote. There is.
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Godejohn, Gypsy's ex-boyfriend, was sentenced to life in prison for stabbing Dee Dee to death while Gypsy hid in the bathroom of her Missouri home.
“I felt guilty that he was in prison, because if he hadn't met me, he wouldn't have done that,” Gypsy recalled in her book. There is. “I'm responsible. I couldn't get it out of my head that he was thinking about going to prison for the rest of his life. I never thought I could face the same fate. It never occurred to me. ”I was in deep trouble just like him. ”
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Experts believe Blanchard's mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, had Munchausen syndrome by proxy. (Disclosure of evidence in investigation)
Gypsy said she and Godejohn tried to maintain a relationship while they were in the county jail, leaving secret notes for each other in the recreation room, but the relationship didn't last.
In 2019, when Gypsy entered into a new relationship with another man from prison, Godejohn wrote her a letter stating that she had “committed adultery” and that they were “married” by “God's law”. .
“I sent him a letter, which served as a closing letter.”
Ms Gypsy told Mr Godejohn she no longer wanted anything to do with him and had “moved on”.
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“I told him I knew he didn't have much outside experience, and I understood that too, and I felt guilty, that's why I That's why I testified on his behalf at his trial. I felt it was right to be accountable for my role.” I didn't do it out of love, but out of a sense of duty and a desire for justice. I did this out of an abundance of caution,” she wrote.
Dee Dee, Gypsy 'told everyone' she was going to become a 'nun'
According to Gypsy's memoir, Dee Dee “told everyone” that Gypsy would grow up to be a nun.
Gypsy said she was raised Roman Catholic in Louisiana, but her mother eventually became non-religious when they moved to Missouri.
“Actually, I've been baptized seven times in my life.”
“Five years before the murders, once when I arrived in the county, and finally when I arrived in Chillicothe. [Correctional Center]. I never felt clean,” Gypsy told Melissa Moore, co-author of the book's Call from Prison feature.
Later, Gypsy wrote that she believed she would become a nun, based on her mother's hopes for her future.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Ryan Scott Anderson were spotted in New York City on January 5, 2024. (Raymond Hall/GC Images)
“I was already thinking about becoming a nun, so I built an altar in my bedroom and placed saints on it,” she wrote of the miniature statues sold in the Bible school's gift shop. “I had a congregation of stuffed animals with the cats and we all attended Little Church. I was the priest. I led us all in prayer and gave communion and gave the cats crackers. and gave him grape juice.”
Dee Dee's father allegedly sexually abused Dee Dee and Gypsy.
Both Gypsy and Dee Dee claimed that they were sexually abused by Dee Dee's father, Gypsy's grandfather.
Gypsy, who has made accusations in documentaries about her life, including Lifetime's recent docuseries “Gypsy Rose Blanchard's Prison Confessions,” details new allegations of abuse in her memoir. are doing.
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“When I was 19 years old, my mother told me that my father had sexually abused me,” Gypsy wrote in her book. “And I had a memory from when I was five years old that I knew was strange. My grandfather would draw a bath and he would make my mother and I bathe together. My mother told me that when we lived together for a little while.'' After she was in a car accident, while waiting for her leg to heal, he took her to another room and had sex with her. I thought the abuse would continue. ”
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 made similar accusations in “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard,'' which includes an interview with Gypsy's grandfather, Claude Pitre.
“I've never heard of anything like that,” he says in the documentary about accusations of sexual abuse by Gypsies. He then goes on to accuse Gypsy of attacking him since he was only four years old.
“She tries to touch me and I say, 'No, don't do that.' … She started doing it when she was about four years old … she was trying to touch me,” Pitre says in the series.
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In addition to being a victim of her mother's Munchausen syndrome by proxy, Gypsy said the abuse made it difficult for her to recognize love and be intimate. She married her husband Ryan Anderson in prison last year.
“Release: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom” is available on Amazon for $9.99.
