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Published January 5, 2024, 9:29 am ET
Gypsy Rose Blanchard claimed in her first television interview since being released from prison that the murder of mother Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard was the “only way out” of ongoing Munchausen abuse by proxy.
“I didn't want her dead, I just wanted to get out of my situation and I thought this was the only way out,” Blanchard, now 32, said. said on “Good Morning America” in a sitdown interview that aired Friday.
“I don’t think my mother was a monster,” she insisted, despite years of abuse.
“She had a lot of demons of her own that she was struggling with.”
Blanchard said her mother forced her for years to pretend she suffered from terminal and debilitating illnesses, forcing her to travel in a wheelchair and use a feeding tube even though she was healthy.
She was 23 years old and addicted to prescription painkillers when she and her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn hatched a plan to stab her abusive mother.
“I share my story as a cautionary tale so that the next person who finds themselves in a situation like mine doesn’t take the path I took,” the freed killer said.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, 32, said she believed killing her mother was “the only way out” of her abuse. ABC News
Blanchard was released from a Missouri prison last Thursday after serving most of her 10-year sentence for hatching a plan with Godejohn to kill her mother in 2015.
Godejohn, meanwhile, remains behind bars, serving a life sentence for Dee Dee's stabbing death. He is not allowed to have any contact with Blanchard.
When Roberts asked Blanchard in the interview whether she thought it was fair that she should be allowed to walk free while Godejohn remained incarcerated, Blanchard simply replied, “I'm sure we both have great regrets.”
“All I can say is that I did my time, he did his time and I wish him all the best on his journey.”
In 2015, she and her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn planned the murder of her mother Claudine. AP Gypsy said her mother forced her to pretend for years that she suffered from incurable and debilitating illnesses. Courtesy of HBO
Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a psychological disorder in which parents exaggerate or fake their children's illness to gain attention and compassion.
Blanchard's book is due out next week.
The former convict has now become a star thanks to the 2017 HBO documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest,” about her mother's murder.
She also has the book “Release: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom,” out Jan. 9, and a three-part Lifetime special, “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard,” premiering Friday.
She already has more than 10 million followers on social media.
Experts now say she could earn up to $100,000 per social media post through endorsement deals, brand partnerships and speaking engagements.
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