The murder of Clauddine Dee Dee Blanchard has shocked many people around the world. The startling part was that Gypsy Rose Blanchard, her own daughter, killed her. She spent more than seven years in prison for her involvement in her mother’s murder before being released.
On December 28, 2023, Gypsy was freed from the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri. She declared herself prepared for freedom in an interview done prior to her release.
In addition, she said that she is prepared to grow in all spheres of her life. She was convicted of stabbing her mother to death and received a ten-year prison sentence. However, she was freed a year earlier than her original prison period.
Some of the reports said that Gypsy would be granted parole in December, but she has been set free by the Missouri Department of Corrections. She has already served around eighty-five percent of her sentence.
In June 2015, Gypsy and her boyfriend, Nick Godejohn, were charged with murder after Dee Dee Blanchard was found dead. Gypsy clearly regrets the crime for which she has been convicted.
In an interaction with one of the news channels, she made it clear that it was not something she would be proud of.
No one will ever hear me say I’m proud of what I did or that I’m glad that she’s dead. I’m not proud of what I did. I regret it every single day.”
After the arrest, Gypsy threw light on the lie that had been hidden from the world by her own mother. It was revealed that Dee Dee had fabricated all of her daughter’s medical issues, and Gypsy had no such ailments, as claimed by her mother.
The truth behind Gypsy’s illnesses
Gypsy was a victim of Munchausen due to the proxy syndrome of her mother. Her mother convinced everyone around her that her daughter was an ill teenager with the mind of a seven-year-old. She also claimed that her child suffered from muscular dystrophy, leukemia, and other ailments.
Gypsy recalled how she used to fight back with her mother, telling her that she did not have any such conditions. But her mother would never listen to her and also got upset with Gypsy. She has been manipulating Gypsy and the people around her for attention and sympathy.
Gypsy claimed that her mother would not allow her to speak with her doctors and tell them that she was not suffering from any of the diseases that her mother claimed to have. Whenever Gypsy told her mother that she would escape and tell the police about the manipulation, her mother would threaten her that the police would not believe her story.
“I was very sheltered,” explains Gypsy, who was never enrolled in school and was largely kept from having a relationship with her father, Rod, stepmother Kristy, and her half-siblings.
She told me that.
I was limited in what I could watch and the exposure I had to other kids. What I knew of the outside world was only in Disney movies, and those don’t talk about warning signs of bad parents.”
Even though she was suffering a lot because of her mother, she should not have taken the step of murdering her mother.
She also mentioned that nobody should take steps like these, even if they are in abusive relationships. She thinks more maturely now and believes that her mother did not deserve to be killed.
She didn’t deserve that. She was a sick woman, and unfortunately, I wasn’t educated enough to see that. She deserved to be where I am, sitting in prison doing time for criminal behavior.
Gypsy regrets the decision and says that if she had another chance, she would go back to her childhood and tell her relatives that she was not sick. Now, she is preparing to share her story in the new documentary, The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
She says that she wants to make sure that people in abusive relationships do not resort to murder. Although killing the person who is abusing you can feel like the only option, there are always other options.
