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 launch final Thursday, she posted two movies on TikTookay to rejoice.
“I’m finally free,” Blanchard, 32, mentioned within the first clip, posted Sunday. “I just wanted to send a quick video to thank everyone for the massive amount of support that I’ve been getting on social media. Everyone has been really, really nice and supportive. I really appreciate that. It’s nice to be home.”
“I’m back home in Louisiana, enjoying a beautiful day outside,” she continued. “I’ve got a lot of great things happening really soon. I’ve got my documentary series coming out, ‘The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.’ I just put out an e-book that I’m super proud of.”
Blanchard mentioned the ebook received’t be “a rehashing of everything that happened,” however a “reflection” of what she has “learned and experienced” throughout her time at Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Center earlier than she was cleared for early launch in September.
Her story has already been dramatized in the 2019 Hulu sequence “The Act” and detailed in HBO’s 2017 documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest.”
“Happy New Year’s Eve! I’m about to celebrate with my family,” Blanchard mentioned in one other video.
“I have my dad and my stepmom Kristy here, and of course my husband,” Blanchard continued within the follow-up TikTookay. “We’re looking to ring in the new year together, and it’s going to be really awesome to have some family time after so long.”
Blanchard married Louisiana trainer Ryan Scott Anderson behind bars in 2022.
For years, Blanchard’s mom foisted a litany of sicknesses and circumstances 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 discovered stabbed to loss of life in her dwelling in Springfield, Missouri, in 2015. Gypsy Rose in the end admitted to conspiring along with her boyfriend on the time, Nicholas Godejohn, to kill her mom. Godejohn was discovered responsible of first-degree homicide and sentenced to life in jail.
Blanchard has discovered help for her early launch amongst numerous abuse victims along with her family. Her stepmother, Kristy Blanchard, steered in 2019 that Gypsy Rose would have died had issues continued on the way in which that they had been.
“Dee Dee would tell me, ‘When I die, I hope she dies with me, because one can’t live without the other,’” Kristy informed In Touch Weekly. “Now thinking back, 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 wherein the caretaker fabricates sicknesses to make the kid seem sick — nonetheless informed People final month: “I still love my mom.”
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 assist? In the U.S., name 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) for the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
