Gypsy Rose Blanchard has left prison after serving eight-and-a-half years for 'convincing' her then-boyfriend to murder her mother – and now she's released a tell-all book.
The 32-year-old, from the US, sustained a life of abuse from mother Clauddine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard who fooled Gypsy into thinking she had a batch of illnesses – including Muscular Dystrophy and Leukaemia. Dee Dee had Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy – a rare psychological disorder where the the caregiver creates factitious sicknesses or purposely causes symptoms of illness in a child.
Gypsy Rose planned to 'escape' the years of abuse inflicted by her mother with the 'help' of then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn, who brutally murdered Dee Dee while she slept by stabbing her 17 times and is serving life without parole for it.
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For her role in the murder of her abusive mother, in 2016, Gypsy Rose was sentenced to 10 years in prison but was released early from Chillicothe Correctional Center in Chillicothe, Missouri, US, in the early hours of the 28 December 2023. She has started off 2024 as a free woman – after nearly nine years banged up.
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In the much-awaited e-book 'Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom' launching today (January 9), with the help of journalist and advocate Melissa Moore and author Michele Matrisciani, Gypsy has been able to publish her first public account of her abuse and how she's managed to forge herself a future away from control and deceit.
Below, we reveal some of the 'first words' spoken by Gypsy Rose after she realised that she wouldn't have to serve her full prison sentence. In a phone conversation with Melissa Moore on December 13 2021, she gasped: "Hi, Melissa, so I got my answer today and it’s really good news. I am leaving prison and going home on my earliest possible out day of December 28, 2023! AAAAAHHH!"
This conversation happened shortly after Gypsy was called to the Institutional Parole Office after the board took just two days to make a decision about an early prison release. In the transcript, she noted that it usually takes "three to four weeks" for them to come to a verdict.
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She continued: "I’m so overwhelmed; I’m excited and so emotional. It’s all hitting me. The last seven years are playing out in my mind."
"Remembering all the good things I’ve been through in prison and all the bad things I’ve been through in prison. And what it’s going to be like when I get home. All these things are zooming in my mind like HARD. And I’m crying happy tears."
The book claims she 'giggled': “And it’s just...wow!"
Overcome with emotion, Gypsy felt like her heart was 'literally beating out of her chest' and said that she's "over the moon" with the news. She continued that she was "scared" before the hearing took place and was struggling to comprehend the reality of her release that would take place in a little over two years from that moment.
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However, despite her excitement of finding out her potential release date, Gypsy wanted to keep the news quiet at first. She felt it could make other prisoners "jealous" and that some could even 'sabotage' her date. Some prisoners might have labelled her 'short' sentence 'Baby Life'.
In the same prison phone call to Melissa, Gypsy Rose explained: "I don’t want to tell anyone. I’m trying to keep it private and just share with close family.
"I don’t want people to know because, A, I don’t want anyone to think I got off with no time. People in here are doing considerable amounts of time for murder.
"They’d call my sentence 'Baby Life.' And B, I don’t want to make people jealous and risk anyone sabotaging my date. So, yeah, just close family."
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Gypsy Rose was released at the earliest date, 28 December 2023. She's since been on various US talk shows were she's candidly opened up about her ordeal and time in prison.
The 33-year-old got married in 2022 to Ryan Scott Anderson, a special education teacher, while in prison.She's since defended their relationship on social media and told him not to listen to the 'haters' on Instagram.
Gypsy even went as far as to say that the trolls are "jealous" as hubby Ryan is "rocking" her world every single night – and even claimed his "D" is 'fire.
She already has a large social media following with 7.9million Instagram followers and a further 9million on TikTok. She's set to compile her full memoir this year.
'Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom' is available to purchase in e-book form only from Amazon on January 9, it can be found here.