Gypsy Rose Blanchard is talking out within the first movies since her launch from jail.
Blanchard pleaded responsible in 2015 to the second-degree homicide of her mom, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, and was sentenced to 10 years behind bars. Following her early release last Thursday, she posted two movies on TikTok to rejoice.
“I’m lastly free,” Blanchard, 32, said in the first clip, posted Sunday. “I simply needed to ship a fast video to thank everybody for the huge quantity of help that I’ve been getting on social media. Everybody has been actually, very nice and supportive. I actually recognize that. It’s good to be dwelling.”
“I’m again dwelling in Louisiana, having fun with an exquisite day exterior,” she continued. “I’ve bought a variety of nice issues occurring actually quickly. I’ve bought my documentary sequence popping out, ‘The Jail Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.’ I simply put out an e-book that I’m tremendous pleased with.”
Blanchard stated the e-book received’t be “a rehashing of every part that occurred,” however a “reflection” of what she has “realized and skilled” throughout her time at Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Heart earlier than she was cleared for early release in September.
Her story has already been dramatized in the 2019 Hulu series “The Act” and detailed in HBO’s 2017 documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest.”
“Glad New 12 months’s Eve! I’m about to rejoice with my household,” Blanchard said in another video.
“I’ve my dad and my stepmom Kristy right here, and naturally my husband,” Blanchard continued within the follow-up TikTok. “We’re trying to ring within the new yr collectively, and it’s going to be actually superior to have some household time after so lengthy.”
Blanchard married Louisiana teacher Ryan Scott Anderson behind bars in 2022.
For years, Blanchard’s mom foisted a litany of diseases and situations upon her ― together with mind injury, leukemia and muscular dystrophy ― that she didn’t even have. Blanchard was additionally made to make use of a wheelchair, fed pointless medicines, and forcibly stored indoors by her mom.
Dee Dee Blanchard was found stabbed to death in her dwelling in Springfield, Missouri, in 2015. Gypsy Rose finally admitted to conspiring together with her boyfriend on the time, Nicholas Godejohn, to kill her mom. Godejohn was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in jail.
Blanchard has discovered help for her early launch amongst numerous abuse victims along with her circle of relatives. Her stepmother, Kristy Blanchard, recommended in 2019 that Gypsy Rose would have died had issues continued on the way in which they’d been.
“Dee Dee would inform me, ‘After I die, I hope she dies with me, as a result of one can’t reside with out the opposite,’” Kristy told In Touch Weekly. “Now pondering again, it’s like, ‘Oh my god, she would’ve ended up — She would’ve killed Gypsy. She would have.’”
Blanchard, who argued in court docket that she was a sufferer of Munchausen syndrome by proxy — a psychological sickness and type of little one abuse through which the caretaker fabricates diseases to make the kid seem sick — nonetheless told People final month: “I nonetheless love my mother.”
Her Lifetime documentary sequence, “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard,” premieres Jan. 5. Blanchard’s e-book, “Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom,” hits digital cabinets Jan. 9.
Need assistance? Within the U.S., name 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) for the National Domestic Violence Hotline.