Two years before the end of her sentence for pleading guilty to helping kill her abusive mother, Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released on parole on December 28, 2023.

Born in 1991 in New Orleans, Louisiana, the young woman lived with her mother in Missouri, United States. In 2015, hidden from her mother, she was able to meet in person the young man she had talked to three years ago.

Feeling that the relationship, which began in 2012 on digital platforms, was escalating from friendship to another kind of affection, he noticed that his mother’s presence was a problem, so he began, together with Nicholas Godejohn, the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard to plan. , because he felt it was the only way they could be together, El Tiempo reported.

This was Gypsy Rose’s mother

Gypsy Rose was confronted at an early age with a life marked by various illnesses and the abuse of her mother, Clauddine –Dee Dee-Blanhard. Dee Dee suffered from this in the eyes of medicine Munchausen syndrome by proxy”.

According to Medline Plus, this Munchausen syndrome is “a mental illness and a form of child abuse.”

He adds that “the child’s caregiver, often the mother, makes up false symptoms or produces real symptoms to make it appear as if the child is ill.” The syndrome is also known as “imposed factitious disorder,” the Mayo Clinic adds.

This woman was ‘overprotective’ of her daughter so as not to be discovered, prevented the gypsy from socializing with people her age and ‘never let her go to school’.

She moved around in a wheelchair, used oxygen and was sometimes fed through a feeding tube.

Gypsy Rose was born healthy, the press agrees, but Dee Dee Blanchard, El Tiempo explains, “claimed that her daughter suffered from a series of chronic diseases: leukemia, asthma, epilepsy and a neuromuscular disorder, among others.”

He visited several medical offices because of his ‘pathologies’. But “when the doctors started asking a lot of questions about her health, Dee Dee changed profession” and took her daughter to another hospital.

What is Munchausen syndrome by proxy?

He also lied about Gypsi’s mental and physical age. He said he was much younger than he actually was.

Given Gypsy Rose’s “health condition” – which her mother described and convinced – she received support and resources from foundations.

“Dee Dee even shaved her daughter’s hair to make her look like someone undergoing cancer treatment,” El Universo published.

The Blanchards received a Habitat for Humanity home, trips to Disney World and other benefits after Dee Dee convinced those around her that Gypsy Rose was suffering from numerous diseases.

The murder of Dee Dee Blanchard

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, CNN en Español recalled on Thursday, December 28, 2023: “Pleaded guilty to intentional manslaughter in 2016 after admitting that she convinced her boyfriend to stab her mother Dee Dee Blanchard to death while she slept.”

The murder of Dee Dee Blanchard occurred on June 10, 2015 at her home in Springfield, Missouri. At night, Godejohn arrived at Blanchard’s house and stabbed his girlfriend’s mother while she was sleeping in her bed, El Tiempo also published.

Gypsy Rose “admitted to being in the house at the time of the murder” and did nothing to prevent the worst “knowing that her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, was going to stab Dee Dee,” according to court records reviewed by CNN.

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I wanted to free myself from his control over me. I convinced him (Godejohn).

Gypsy Rose is on trial

Godejohn “was found guilty of murder and was sentenced in 2019 to life in prison without the possibility of parole.”

After committing the murder, “the young men fled together to Wisconsin, where they were found several days later.”

The sentence against Gypsy Rose Blanchard “was 10 years in prison in a plea bargain after lawyers revealed the abuse she experienced at the hands of her mother.”

“I have never encountered anything even close to what Gypsy experienced,” Blanchard’s attorney Michael Stanfield said in the HBO documentary “Mommy Dead and Mommy Dearest.”

According to Stanfield, Dee Dee “seemed to have gone to great lengths to keep Gypsi in a very youthful role, causing her to act several years younger than her actual age.”

Gypsy Rose is reported to have said this about her mother: “She provided documentation stating that I was incompetent and that she had power over me.”

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Gypsy Rose’s Regrets

The events of 2015 shocked Americans. In an interview with People published by El Tiempo, Gypsy Rose, now 32, said: “No one will ever hear me say I’m glad she’s dead or that I’m proud of what I’ve done (…).”

According to Colombian media, Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom is scheduled for January 9, which “tells Blanchard’s story from her own perspective, with the help of writers Melissa Moore and Michele Matrisciani.”

For Gypsy Rose, her parent Dee Dee “was a sick woman and unfortunately I wasn’t educated enough to see that.”

Television and the press in general were on high alert for his release from prison on Thursday, December 28.

Regarding what happened in mid-2015, Gypsy Rose previously told People, “I regret it every day… she didn’t deserve that.”

(JO)