Just after being released from prison, Gypsy Rose Blanchard was welcomed with open arms by her family during a special welcome party.
In a series of photos posted to TikTok, Gypsy Rose appears with her family as they welcome her home after serving seven years in prison for the murder of her mother, Clauddine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard. Gypsy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. In September she was granted early parole.
Gypsy Rose had conspired to kill Dee Dee with her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, who had stabbed her mother repeatedly in their Springfield, Missouri, home on June 9, 2015. The motive was to help Gypsy Rose escape the behavior abusive of his mother. Dee Dee had subjected Gypsy Rose to Munchhausen syndrome by proxy. She convinced others that her daughter had multiple illnesses to get attention. Dee Dee said that Gypsy Rose not only had cancer but she had the mentality of a seven-year-old girl because she was born prematurely.
Dee Dee had forced Gypsy Rose to use a wheelchair and oxygen tanks, which she did not need. Gypsy Rose also told Dr. Phil McGraw in 2017 that Dee Dee shaved her head. He also forced her to eat through a feeding tube.
However, Gypsy Rose Blanchard regrets Dee Dee’s murder. “No one will ever hear me say that I’m glad she’s dead or that I’m proud of what I did,” she said. PEOPLE. “She didn’t deserve that.”
Gypsy Rose also said that her mother was a sick woman. “Unfortunately she wasn’t educated enough to see that. “She deserved to be where I am, in prison serving time for criminal conduct.”
Gypsy Rose Blanchard said she was desperate to get away from her mother
Before leaving prison, Gypsy Rose Blanchard revealed why she finally decided to plan her mother’s murder.
“I was desperate to get out of that situation,” she said. PEOPLE. “If I had another chance to redo everything, I don’t know if I would go back to when I was a child and tell my uncles and aunts that I’m not sick and mom makes me sick. Or if I went back to the point of that conversation with Nick and said, ‘You know what? I’m going to go tell the police everything.’ “I kind of struggle with that.”
Gypsy Rose Blanchard also said she spent years in the “dark” about her health conditions. “Obviously, she knew she could walk and didn’t need a feeding tube,” she said. “But everything else was a big confusion for me.”
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