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Published December 29, 2023, 7:27 am ET
She is now “Out of the Woods.”
Gypsy Rose Blanchard credits Taylor Swift's music with helping her get through her seven-year stay behind bars in a Missouri prison.
The 32-year-old was released on probation Thursday after being sentenced to 10 years in prison for pleading guilty to her role in the 2015 stabbing death of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.
Blanchard admitted to staging her mother's murder to escape years of abuse.
Now that she's free, Blanchard hopes to cement her status as a bona fide “Swiftie” by meeting her idol, and told TMZ that the “Cruel Summer” hitmaker's music made it possible for her.
Blanchard said she spent years listening to Swift's discography after becoming a fan as a teenager.
She claims that the money her father sent her in prison was spent solely on purchasing each of Swift's ten albums.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard credits Taylor Swift's music with helping her get through her stay behind bars in a Missouri prison.
Blanchard revealed that she has made a plan to finally meet Swift at the Kansas City Chiefs' game on Sunday when they take on the Cincinnati Bengals.
Blanchard and her husband, Ryan Scott Anderson, have secured tickets to the match, where she hopes to meet “Kick-Ass Girl” Swift as she supports boyfriend Travis Kelce.
If the Dec. 31 plan doesn't work out, Blanchard also plans to appear on the New Orleans leg of Swift's Eras Tour next fall.
The 32-year-old was pictured for the first time since being released on parole on Thursday. Daniel William McKnight for NY Post
As a child, Blanchard was forced by her mother to pretend that she was suffering from various medical complications.
According to Gypsy's defense attorney, Dee Dee Blanchard had Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental disorder in which parents seek compassion and attention through their children's exaggerated or fabricated illness.
Although Gypsy Blanchard was perfectly healthy, her mother confined her to a wheelchair and forced her to use a feeding tube.
Blanchard hopes to meet Swift at the Kansas City Chiefs game on Sunday when they take on the Cincinnati Bengals. Getty Images for TAS Rights Management
Dee Dee Blanchard presented her daughter to the world as terminally ill and with the mental capacity of a seven-year-old.
The truth only came to light after Blanchard's then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn stabbed Dee Dee to death in her Missouri home in June 2015.
The couple fled, but were tracked down and arrested.
Blanchard pleaded guilty to her role in the 2015 stabbing death of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.
Godejohn told police he killed Dee Dee at Gypsy's request and with a knife she provided.
He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison plus 25 years.
Gypsy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Gypsy's memoir, “Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom,” is scheduled to be published next month.
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