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Topics: Gypsy Rose Blanchard, News, US News
Gerrard Kaonga
Topics: Gypsy Rose Blanchard, News, US News
Gypsy Rose Blanchard has said she regrets killing her mother after years of abuse, but has also reflected on what led her to the chilling decision to have her killed.
After being released from prison last week, Gypsy Rose Blanchard has seemed determined to move forward and finally begin living her life.
In 2016, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for her involvement in the murder of her mother, Clauddine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard, in 2015.
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After serving seven years of her sentence and finally being released, Gypsy has now explained why she and her then boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, killed her mom.
Godejohn was sentenced to life in prison for stabbing Dee Dee to death.
During her trial, Gypsy Rose said her mom told everyone she was terminally ill, forced her to use a wheelchair, oxygen tank and also took her to the doctors tricking them into diagnosing and treating her daughter for conditions such as leukemia.
The now 32-year-old subsequently claimed she was a victim of 'Munchausen syndrome by proxy', a form of abuse where a parent or guardian exaggerates or induces sickness in a child for sympathy and attention.
Speaking to PEOPLE, Gypsy said despite this, "nobody will ever hear me say I'm glad she's dead or I'm proud of what I did. I regret it every single day."
She explained that the plan to kill her mother stemmed from a fear of an upcoming surgery she was scheduled for, despite not needing it.
“It was panic, desperation. Because I was facing yet another surgery pretty soon, and I really did not want to have the surgery,” she explained.
“It was work on my neck, something about my voice and my vocal cords and my voice box, to figure out why my voice is so high-pitched.
"And they thought the doctors attributed that to maybe a breathing issue. So they were going to do surgery on my larynx, and at that point, I was just not having it. I'm like, ‘I do not want to have the surgery.’ I expressed that to my mother.”
“She's like, ‘You're having it,’ and that's it. There's no discussion to be had. And I felt in my heart, please change your mind. This life needs to change.”
“It's not like I didn't think about every other option besides murder. I did,”
Following her release, Gypsy Rose has admitted to being nervous and about being shoved into the spotlight as a free woman.
She said she would be relying on the support of her husband, Ryan Anderson, who she married in prison.
Gypsy also has a new three-part docu-series coming out this week, titled The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, which will air exclusively on Lifetime on 5 January.