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Gypsy Rose Blanchard is dropping bombshells about her shocking life, now that she’s out of jail.
The 32-year-old — who was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2015 killing of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, which she planned with then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn — was released from a Missouri prison on Dec. 28, after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence.
As a child, Dee Dee forced Gypsy to pretend she was suffering from conditions like leukemia and muscular dystrophy, which falsely forced her to be confined to a wheelchair for over two decades.
Prosecutors in the case believed Dee Dee had Munchausen syndrome by proxy — a psychological disorder where parents fabricate their child’s illness.
Gypsy met Godejohn online, and in 2015, he fatally stabbed Dee Dee while Gypsy hid in the bathroom (Godejohn was charged with first-degree murder and is serving a life sentence in prison).
Their story was dramatized in the Hulu show, “The Act,” starring Joey King as Gypsy, Patricia Arquette as Dee Dee, and Calum Worthy as Godejohn, and HBO covered it in the 2017 documentary, “Mommy Dead and Dearest.” Gypsy also has a new book out, “Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom” and she is newly married to Ryan Anderson, 37.
Over the weekend, “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard” aired on Lifetime, a three-night event featuring interviews with Blanchard, former doctors, and family. Here are the biggest bombshells from the docuseries.
Her mother put a Vodoo hex on her, she said
Gypsy recalled that she first started to rebel against Dee Dee when she met a man named Dan at a sci-fi pop culture convention in 2011. Soon, she tried running away from home to be with him, but Dee Dee caught her.
Her mother chained Gypsy to her bed for two weeks as punishment, and also put a “voodoo hex” on her, she alleged.
“She printed out a picture of Dan and she printed out a picture of me and she went to the store and got a mason jar and a cow tongue,” Gypsy said.
“She put the cow tongue in the mason jar with the two pictures and a little bit of my menstrual blood. She buried it in the backyard and said, ‘You will never find love. You will never be happy.’ So I think that it’s true. I just think it’s true because every time I get close to someone, they leave me.”
