In a new documentary, Gypsy Rose Blanchard claims that her grandfather sexually molested her as a young child. She spent over eight years in jail for killing her abusive mother.
Blanchard’s story has been in the news for a few weeks now. She was recently released from prison on parole after serving 85% her 10-year sentence.
“When I was living with my grandpa and my step-grandmother…things changed in my life forever,” Gypsy says in Lifetime’s new documentary series, “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard,” released on Friday.
She said: “I had been sexually abused and molested. My grandfather would drag me from my wheelchair into a closet, or a shack behind their home where he did woodworking and perform sexual acts on. He would force me to touch him. “He would make me touch him.”
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Dee Dee convinced Gypsy she was younger than her age and had a list of ailments, including lukemia. (Investigation Discovery)
After her mother suffered a serious injury in a car accident when she was 9 years old, Gypsy lived with her grandmothers in Louisiana .
“I didn’t know that I was doing something wrong until my grandfather told me to keep it a secret. He said, “You don’t think Pa Pa should go to prison, do you?” Gyspy tells a prisoner in the new documentary.
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Claude Pitre confronted with accusations made against Gyspy by his grandfather.
He says, “It’s the very first time I’ve heard about it.” When Gypsy accuses him of molestation. He goes on to accuse Gyspy of molestation, starting when she was only 4 years old.
“She would touch me and I told her, ‘No! Don’t do it.’ This started when she was four years old. Pitre says, “She was trying to reach out and touch me.”
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Experts think Blanchard’s mom, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy. This is a mental illness where a person – in this case Dee Dee – pretends that another person – Gypsy – is sick in order to gain sympathy or receive material goods.
When Gypsy was informed of the response in the episode, she said to producers that “there is no part of me” who questions whether or not this actually happened.
“This 100% happened. “He can take this to his grave, but I will not be visiting him there,” she said in the show.
In 2016, Blanchard pleaded to second-degree homicide at the age of 24 for her part in plotting with her ex-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to murder her abusive mother Claudine Blanchard in their Missouri house in 2015. Godejohn, who carried out Dee Dee’s murder by stabbing her to death, is currently serving a lifetime sentence.
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Experts believe Dee Dee suffered from Munchausen Syndrome by proxy. This is a mental illness where perpetrators, often parents, project fake illnesses on victims — usually their children — in order to gain attention or material goods out of sympathy for them.
Dee Dee convinced Gypsy she was suffering from a list of diseases, including leukemia and muscular dystrophy. Dee Dee also made Gypsy sit in a wheel chair and force her to take drugs that she didn’t need. She shaved Gypsy’s head and convinced her she was younger than her actual age.
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Gypsy says that when her mother recovered, she moved her out of the house of her grandfather. However, the distance she created between her and her family allowed her mother’s control to increase.
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Bobby Pietre (Gypsy’s cousin) described the relationship between Gyspy’s mother and herself as “Mommy Dearest at the maximum,” in reference to a 1981 psychological film that depicted an abusive mother’s treatment of her daughter.
Gypsy describes her first day behind bars as one of the best memories she has.
Greene County Missouri prosecutors have charged Nicholas Paul Godejohn and Blancharde of Big Bend, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 with first-degree homicide and armed criminal activity in connection with the killing of Clauddinnea Blancharde (48), last week. The Associated Press
In the new episode, she says, “My best memory is the day I went to prison, got to sit at the picnic tables and was like, ‘I am free’.” “I am free to make friends. “I’m free to do whatever I want.”
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She says that later, some people refer to her as a victim and others refer to her as a murderer. “But there’s so much more beneath the surface.”
The third part of the “Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard”, is scheduled to be released Saturday evening.