Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the Missouri woman who convinced her boyfriend to kill her mother after suffering years of medical abuse, was released from prison Thursday.
Blanchard, now 32, had been serving a 10-year sentence for a second-degree murder conviction in connection with the 2015 stabbing death of his mother, Dee Dee Blanchard.
Gypsy was granted parole in September, paving the way for her early release almost three years earlier than planned.
On Sunday, just days after regaining her freedom, Gypsy and her husband, Ryan Anderson, are expected to attend a Kansas City Chiefs game, where she hopes to meet her idol, Taylor Swift, as she recently told TMZ.
Her case inspired the HBO documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest” and the Hulu scripted series “The Act,” both of which explored Gypsy’s harrowing childhood when she was forced to pretend she had leukemia, muscular dystrophy and a host of other ailments. .
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, 32, was released from prison on parole Thursday. Blanchard, pictured to the left of her as a child, had served less than eight years of her 10-year sentence for the death of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. Gypsy Rose Blanchard was being held at the Chillicothe Correctional Facility in Missouri. New York Post
Dee Dee Blanchard had Munchhausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological disorder in which parents seek sympathy and attention through their children’s exaggerated or fabricated illness, according to Gypsy’s defense attorney.
Despite being perfectly healthy, her mother confined Gypsy to a wheelchair and forced her to use a feeding tube.
Dee Dee presented her daughter to the world as terminally ill and with the mental capacity of a 7-year-old girl.
Through her years-long scam, the mother received charitable donations from various organizations, received a free trip to Disney World, and received a home from Habitat for Humanity.
Gypsy’s ex-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, is serving a life sentence for stabbing Dee Dee Blanchard to death in 2015. MDC/MEGA
Blanchard was able to fool doctors by telling them that Gypsy’s medical records had been lost in Hurricane Katrina. If they suspected her, she would change doctors and shave her daughter’s head to make her look like a cancer patient.
In addition to the medical abuse, which included unnecessary surgery to remove her salivary glands, Gypsy testified that her mother also beat her and chained her to a bed.
As she became more curious about the outside world after growing up isolated, Gypsy met Nicholas Godejohn on a Christian dating website and the two became romantically involved.
In June 2015, Godejohn stabbed Dee Dee to death in her Springfield, Missouri home, where Gypsy Rose was hiding in the bathroom.
The couple then fled, but were located and arrested.
Godejohn told police he killed Dee Dee at Gypsy’s request and with a knife she provided him. He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison plus 25 years.
Gypsy pleaded guilty in 2016 to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years.
In her testimony at Godejohn’s trial, Gypsy admitted convincing him to kill her mother, saying, “I wanted to free myself from his control over me.”
Gypsy’s account of her life, titled “Published: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom,” will be published next month.
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