Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who made national news and became the subject of the 2019 Hulu limited series The act convicted of her role in her mother’s murder after suffering years of emotional and physical abuse, was released from prison on Thursday.
Blanchard, now 32, has served seven years of a 10-year sentence in a Missouri state prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter for helping kill her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, who had her daughter for years abused, to kill. by convincing her that she was ill when she was not.
This prank included Dee Dee telling Gypsy she had everything from leukemia to muscular dystrophy, which forced her to undergo multiple unnecessary surgeries, use a feeding tube and confine her to a wheelchair, all in an attempt to to gain control of her daughter with a mental disorder known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
Gypsy and her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn stabbed Dee Dee to death in June 2015. Godejohn is serving a life sentence.
Gypsy tells 20/20 iAfter a prison interview in 2017, she said she felt freer in prison than when she lived with her mother.
Joey King played Gypsy in the 2019 Hulu series The act, in which Patricia Arquette won an Emmy for her role as Dee Dee. Several documentaries have been released on the subject, including one that will air on Lifetime in January.
This document, The prison confessions of the gypsy Rose Blanchardshows Blanchard in prison on the eve of her parole hearing as she recounts her emotional journey of being forced to remain a child, held captive by her own mother, and the unthinkable choice she made to survive. It also follows the path to Gypsy’s prison wedding and reveals Ryan, her fiancé, for the first time.
Gypsy, who was incarcerated at the Chillicothe Correctional Center, was released early this morning, the Missouri Department of Corrections said.
Source: Deadline

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