As The Blast previously reported, Gypsy Rose, along with her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn, conspired to kill Dee Dee in 2015. The case made headlines and gained nationwide attention due to Dee Dee’s history of medical abuse towards her daughter.
Now that Gypsy has been released from prison on parole, she is continuing to tell her story and advocate for victims of Munchausen by proxy. Her newest project will be released on Lifetime on June 3.
Ahead of her new Lifetime docuseries, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is encouraging everyone, even those who have not followed her story of abuse and the decision to kill her mom, Dee Dee, to watch.
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Lifetime Set To Release New Docuseries
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s story will continue to be told in Lifetime’s upcoming docuseries, “Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up.”
The project explores her new life, starting just before her prison release and continuing through the subsequent weeks and months. It includes her final prison interview, explaining why she decided to allow cameras to document her journey.
“It was very important to me because when we were working on ‘Prison Confessions,’ I had been so open and honest and raw about what prison life was like for me,” she explained to The Hollywood Reporter. “And so I was sitting in my jail cell at the end of December, and I was like, I’m so tired of all these prison labels and all these labels that people put on me, and I want to show that I’m more than that.”
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard Hopes ‘People Watch With Open Eyes’
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard has a message to the public, even to those who are not necessarily fans of hers or for those who have not followed who she is.
“Even if you haven’t really followed my story from my past, I think even just looking at this as someone transitioning out of prison is something to be excited to watch because that’s a revelation in itself,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “Most prisoners have a very difficult time adjusting to society after any lengthy amount of time in prison.”
She added, “So I really hope that people watch this with open eyes and, and, hopefully, it will be a little bit more of a [show] for people to be enlightened by.”
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard Previously Said She Regrets Killing Her Mom
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Shortly before her release, Gypsy Rose Blanchard admitted she regrets murdering her mom.
“If I had another chance to redo everything, I don’t know if I would go back to when I was a child and tell my aunts and uncles that I’m not sick and mommy makes me sick,” she told PEOPLE Magazine at the time. “If I would travel back to just the point of that conversation with Nick and tell him, ‘You know what, I’m going to go tell the police everything.’ I kind of struggle with that.”
She added, “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.”
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Reflecting Back On Gypsy’s Childhood
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As previously reported by The Blast, Dee Dee Blanchard convinced doctors and medical professionals that Gypsy Rose suffered from a variety of illnesses and medical conditions, ranging from vision impairments, epilepsy, asthma, cancer, and Down syndrome, among others.
When reflecting back on her childhood, Gypsy told PEOPLE Magazine, “Obviously, I knew that I could walk and didn’t need a feeding tube, but everything else was a really big confusion for me.”
“Whenever I’d question it, my mother would say I’d had a seizure the night before and didn’t remember. There was always an excuse,” she continued.
“I would voice concerns, being like, ‘I really don’t feel like I need this,’ and she would get really, really upset with me and start manipulating me,” Gypsy Rose recalled.
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard Says Moving Forward Is A ‘Journey’
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Now that she is out of prison and trying to return to “normal” life, Gypsy Rose Blanchard admits it’s a “journey.”
“I’m still really trying to come to a place of forgiveness for her, for myself and the situation,” she told the outlet. “I still love my mom. And I’m starting to understand that it was something that was maybe out of her control, like an addict with an impulse. That helps me with coping and accepting what happened.”
The first episode of “Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up” will be released on June 3.