Gypsy Rose Blanchard released from prison
Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released from prison after serving seven years for her role in her mother’s murder. He was released from Chillicothe Correctional Facility in Missouri.
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Gypsy-Rose Blanchard is now free from a Missouri prison and finding her voice and a larger audience on social media. Starting Friday, she will experience a new kind of release: revealing in her own words the depth of the medical, emotional and physical abuse she and Gypsy-Rose experienced at the hands of her mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard. He felt that murder was his only way out.
“The best memory in my entire life is the day I went to jail, and I got to go out to a picnic table, and I was like, ‘I’m free. I am free to make friends. I’m free to do what I want,'” she says in Lifetime’s new six-episode documentary, “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard” (Friday-Sunday, 8 EST/PST). “It may be in a controlled environment, but that’s good.”
The unimaginable saga included Dee Dee constantly shaving Gypsy-Rose’s head to reinforce her fabricated diagnosis of leukemia, forcing her daughter to use a wheelchair, and subjecting her to unnecessary medical procedures. Those events and Dee Dee’s eventual murder were covered in HBO’s 2017 documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest” and Hulu’s 2019 limited drama series “The Act”, starring Joey King and Patricia Arquette.
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At Gypsy-Rose’s insistence, her boyfriend Nick Godejohn stabbed Dee Dee to death in the family’s Springfield, Missouri home on June 9, 2015. Godejohn was sentenced to life in prison without parole and Gypsy-Rose was released on December 28 after serving 8 1/2 years of a 10-year sentence.
For Lifetime’s documentary, filmmakers spent 18 months capturing Gypsy-Rose’s life and backstory while she was an inmate at Chillicothe (Missouri) Correctional Center. “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard” features revelatory interviews with Gypsy-Rose’s father Rod Blanchard; her stepmother Christy Blanchard; Claude Pitre, Dee Dee’s father; his brother Evans Pitre; and Gypsy-Rose’s pediatrician, Dr. Robert Steele.
Here are the biggest reveals from Night One. (This story will be updated with revelations from the next two nights.)
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How Dee Dee faked Gypsy-Rose’s health problems
Christy says that when Gypsy-Rose was about 8 years old, Dee Dee told her that Gypsy-Rose had leukemia, which Christy did not question. Rod and Dee Dee were married when Rod was a teenager and Dee Dee was in her 20s after she became pregnant. They welcomed Gypsy-Rose in 1991. Their marriage quickly broke down and Rod saw Gypsy-Rose only a few times a year.
When Dee Dee moved to Missouri with Gypsy-Rose after Hurricane Katrina devastated their native Louisiana in 2005, Gypsy-Rose began seeing pediatrician Steele. He says Dee Dee never provided Gypsy-Rose’s medical records, claiming they were not available after Katrina.
Steele says Dee Dee told him that Gypsy-Rose suffered from seizures, muscular dystrophy and had a history of cancer, but he never saw evidence of the diseases. Gypsy-Rose also had a surgery to remove her salivary glands to treat excess saliva, which Gypsy-Rose attributes to Dee Dee rubbing Orajel on her mouth. Gypsy-Rose lost several teeth after the surgery.
Gypsy-Rose says she didn’t tell anyone what Dee Dee was doing because she was afraid of her mother and wanted her attention. “The relationship was either very affectionate because I was very submissive and obedient, or either I was rebellious and I was punished for it,” Gypsy-Rose says in the documentary. “When I would do something my mom wanted me to do, we’d go to Toys ‘R’ Us, or she’d buy me a new dress, and then the next best thing was her love and affection.”
Gypsy-Rose accuses her grandfather of molesting her
After Dee Dee was badly injured in a car accident in 2000, Gypsy-Rose went to live with her grandfather, Claude Pitre, while her mother recovered in the hospital. Gypsy-Rose says that during that time her grandfather molested her.
“He would perform sexual acts on me,” she says. “He would ask me to touch him. He will touch me.”
When asked about the alleged abuse, Pitre denied it on camera and claimed that Gypsy-Rose touched her inappropriately. “She started doing this when she was about 4 years old,” he says. “I said, ‘Don’t do that.'” Pitre’s son, Evans Pitre, suspects that the alleged abuse was part of Gypsy-Rose’s brain. It may have been an idea pitched in by her mother, but Gypsy-Rose insists it “100% happened.”
Gypsy-Rose tried to escape before her mother died
Gypsy-Rose hatches a plan to run away from her mother’s house shortly after meeting a 36-year-old man named Dan at a science-fiction convention in 2011. Gypsy-Rose recently discovered by searching her Medicaid card that she was 19 years old, not 15 as her mother claimed.
She decides to escape to Dan’s Arkansas farm. So one night she packed some clothes (she didn’t have any real clothes) and the money she stole from her mother. When she arrived at Dan’s friend’s house, where Dan was staying, Gypsy-Rose learned that he was on parole and couldn’t actually leave Missouri.
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard reveals mom’s failed murder attempt, details night of Dee Dee’s death
Dee Dee tracks down Gypsy-Rose at Dan’s friend’s house and says that if she returns home with him, Dee Dee will allow Gypsy-Rose to see her. But it was a lie, just to lure Gypsy-Rose home. Instead, she says her mother handcuffed her to a bed for two weeks, starved her, and destroyed her laptop and cell phone. Gypsy-Rose says that even after the incident, her mother continued to physically abuse and beat her.
“He had a knife on his bedside table and he threatened me that if I tried to run away, I would be punished for it,” says Gypsy-Rose.
Gypsy-Rose’s first attempt to kill Dee Dee
Gypsy Rose thought she would try to run away from her home again in 2011 and packed her bags. When Dee Dee finds out, she talks to Gypsy-Rose about her plan to escape. Gypsy-Rose then picked up a gun that her mother had bought. “And before I knew it, I pulled the trigger as many times as I could,” says Gypsy-Rose. She realized after seeing her mother’s superficial wounds that the gun was actually a BB gun, which made her feel relieved “because I didn’t mean to kill her.” Gypsy-Rose says she surprised herself by pulling the trigger.
Meeting Nick Godejohn and plotting a murder
In 2012, Gypsy Rose met Nick Godejohn on a Christian dating website, and two weeks later they began a relationship. Gypsy-Rose says that an ex-wife of Godejohn warned that he could be verbally abusive, violent and controlling, but he ignored the warning. Gypsy-Rose says she and Godejohn dated for about three years before meeting in person for the first time in 2015.
When Dee Dee applied for power of attorney, Gypsy-Rose says she felt trapped. If she ran away again, the authorities would return her to Dee Dee. Gypsy-Rose pitches the idea of killing her mother to Godejohn, who enthusiastically agrees, telling his alter ego – a 500-year-old vampire – to love killing. The pair considered poison, arson or a gun as the murder weapon but decided on a knife, which Gypsy-Rose says she stole from Walmart.
“Back then I see myself as a scared little girl who is trapped and desperate to get out of a bad situation,” she says. “I wish I had known that there were people I could turn to for help.” Can go for. I wish I had known that I wouldn’t have had to commit this crime.”
The night of Dee Dee’s death
Gypsy-Rose bought a bus ticket for Godejohn, who lived in Big Bend, Wisconsin. She had previously sent him a video of Dee Dee’s bedroom where she was sleeping so that Godejohn could become familiar with the crime scene. Gypsy-Rose also shows Godejohn how to stab him. “I took the plunge because I was on pain pills all the time,” she says. “The side effects cause a disconnection from reality.”
That night, Gypsy-Rose and her mother came over to watch a movie and Gypsy-Rose says she gave her a big hug. “I remember him saying to me, ‘What’s that for? I’m not dead yet,'” she says. “It was very ironic.”
Gypsy-Rose says she was heartbroken about the murder, but texted Godejohn when her mother fell asleep. Godejohn arrived at their house and instructed Gypsy-Rose to go to the bathroom and cover her ears. She says she heard screaming and her mother screaming for help.
“To this day, I can’t get it out of my mind,” she says through tears. “And I want to help him, but I don’t. I am sitting there. I don’t do anything. I’m just sitting there and then I hear her screaming again, and then a louder scream and then it’s over.’
‘A roller coaster of emotions between happiness and sadness’
Gypsy-Rose says that, after the murder, Godejohn insisted on raping her because she had not given him permission to rape Dee Dee. Gypsy-Rose says she passed out because Godejohn was choking her, and when she came to, they went back to Godejohn’s hotel.
They planned to take a bus to Wisconsin the next day, but there were no seats available. The couple would have to wait two days, which they spent in the hotel. “I was crazy about the pain pills, but I loved being with Nick,” she says. “We ordered pizza and thought it would be fun to make a porn video.” She describes the time as “a roller coaster of emotions between happiness and sadness”.
