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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.”
Going to prison felt like she was “free”
“The best memory that I have in my entire life is the day that I got to prison, and I got to go out to the picnic tables, and I’m like, ‘I’m free. I’m free to have friends. I’m free to do what I want,’“ she said.
“It might be in a controlled environment, but this is nice.”
Nicholas Godejohn raped her, she alleged
After Gypsy asked Godejohn, now 34, to murder her mother, he agreed because his alter ego was a 500-year-old vampire, she said.
He asked if he could rape Dee Dee after doing the deed, and Gypsy refused, she alleged.
“Because I didn’t let him rape my mother, I had to agree to let him rape me,” she alleged. “After Nick killed my mother, he told me to get in my bedroom and take off all the stuffed animals that was on my bed. I knew that he was going to have sex with me. Never once was it a fantasy to me. When I yelled ‘stop,’ he didn’t. I called for my mother,” she recalled.
He has never been charged with sexual assault, as the documentary notes.
Gypsy was sexually abused by her grandfather, she said
When Gypsy was 9, she lived with her grandfather, Claude Pitre Sr., while Dee Dee was recovering from a car accident.
“My grandpa would take me out of my wheelchair and bring me into a closet or the shack that was behind their house where he would do woodworking, and he would perform sexual acts on me,” she alleged.
“He would make me touch him, he would touch me. At 9, I don’t think that I knew it was wrong. But then my grandfather told me not to tell anyone. He’s like, ‘You don’t want Papa to go to jail, do you?’ I didn’t want him to get in trouble, so I just kept quiet.”
Pietre Sr. denied the allegation to Lifetime, saying, “No, I never. That’s the first I heard of it… She’s the one that was trying to touch me.”
Dee Dee allegedly tried to poison her stepmother
After Gypsy’s grandmother died, her grandfather married a woman named Laura May. According to Gypsy’s cousin, Bobby Pitre, there was an incident when Gypsy saw Roundup in the corner and commented, “‘Oh, that’s the vitamins that mom gives to grandma Laura May.’” Gypsy’s cousin alleged, “Laura May ended up dying a slow, painful death. And I guarantee you it had a lot to do with that poisoning from the Roundup.”
Gypsy had a painkiller addiction
After getting surgery when she was 16, Gypsy got a prescription for pain medication, which started an addiction.
“My mother had a prescription for Vicodin, and so when she wasn’t looking I would just go and take one or two from her bottle,” Blanchard said.
“I didn’t know what addiction really was, I just knew that it was a craving — it’s all I could think about. I wanted another one.”
She continued her habits in prison, she recalled.
“In the first couple years of my incarceration, I coped using drugs,” she said. “I think I first started to learn that drugs were available in prison when I started seeing other women get high. I tried Suboxone and it gave me the same high as taking pain pills.”
Gypsy tried to kill Dee Dee in 2011
Gypsy tried to run away from Dee Dee in 2011 and packed a bag. When Dee Dee found it, the mother and daughter had a confrontation, and Gypsy grabbed a gun that Dee Dee had bought.
“And before I knew it, I pulled the trigger as many times as I could,” Gypsy said in the documentary. She realized that it was a BB gun, which made her feel relieved “because I did not intend to kill her.”
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