Gypsy Rose Blanchard is separating from her husband just three months after winning her freedom, she confirmed on social media this week.
“People are asking what’s going on in my life. Unfortunately, my husband and I are going through a separation and I moved in with my parents at the house on the bayou,” said Blanchard, referring to reuniting with her father, Rod Blanchard, and stepmother, Christy. Wrote while giving. “I have the support of my family and friends to guide me through this. I am learning to listen to my heart. Right now I need time to find myself… who I am.
Blanchard, 32,’s prison marriage in 2022 to Ryan Scott Anderson, a Louisiana teacher, marked a turning point in the young woman’s tumultuous life, which was spent under the thumb of his controlling father before she was released from prison. Mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. The woman was murdered by her daughter’s then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, in 2015; And gradually, after their bodies are found stabbed to death in their Missouri home, the truth about the dark relationship between mother and daughter becomes clear.
Dee Dee Blanchard, lying about a number of illnesses and disorders over the years, falsely claimed that her daughter Gypsy Rose was suffering from leukemia, asthma and muscular dystrophy; Unnecessary medical procedures and medications gave Dee Dee deep control over the girl for years, while she accepted generous donations and donations from numerous organizations.
As the legal fallout unfolded and the truth was revealed to the shocked public, Gypsy Rose accepted a plea deal and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, as it was argued that she was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, In which a parent exaggerates and will often induce illness to gain sympathy, and persuades Godejohn to kill his mother. In 2019, Godejohn was found guilty of first-degree murder and is currently serving a sentence of life in prison.
While his story became a successful HBO documentary, mother dead and belovedand Hulu series, Act, Blanchard began to receive sympathy from the public as she began to be treated more as a victim. Meanwhile, his life changed in prison as he tells ABC 20/20 That she felt freer there than when she lived with her late mother.
She also met Anderson and soon, through letters and phone calls, a relationship developed and deepened when he began visiting her in prison. The couple exchanged vows in a private ceremony held at the prison where Blanchard was serving his sentence.
“It was very, very small, we didn’t have any guests,” she said. People magazine. “It was just something for him.”
Blanchard was released on parole from Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri in December 2023 after serving 85 percent of his sentence.
His life again received the TV treatment with several special programs at the time of its release, including the Lifetime documentary The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard. She spoke of having cold feet before marrying Anderson prison confession She reached out to her former fiancé 12 days before the wedding, the doctor said, which she eventually told Anderson about. She said, “I abandoned the truth, but I want to go into this marriage without any regrets.” “I want to go into this marriage knowing that I have wiped the slate clean of any omissions, lies, anything.”
when talking heart Around the time of the doctor’s release, she said that she was eager to settle down in a married life. “I’m spending my time reconnecting with my dad (Rod Blanchard) and my stepmom, Christy, and really spending time with my husband,” she said in January of this year. “Now we are back home in Louisiana, and we are settling into married life. I definitely had to peek into her closet and put my clothes on the shelf and now integrate myself into her life. I am making this my home.”
