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Gypsy Rose Blanchard Says Mom Was 'Like an Addict' Who Needed Help

Gypsy Rose Blanchard opened up to People magazine about her mother's alleged Munchausen syndrome by proxy – a mental illness and a form of child abuse in which a guardian invents illnesses to gain sympathy – saying she's “really trying.” , really, to come to a conclusion.” Place of forgiveness for her, for me and the situation.” Dee Dee Blanchard convinced people that her daughter had a lot of medical problems that weren't real, which is what Gypsy Rose Blanchard and leading her then-boyfriend Nick Godejohn to hatch a plan to murder her. Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released from prison on parole last week after serving eight years of a 10-year sentence for the 2015 stabbing death of her mother. “Maybe it was like an addict with an impulse, and it wasn't consciously malicious. And I think that helps me cope and accept what happened,” she said, speaking about her mother's alleged treatment. “I really feel like it was something psychological, that when she could have gotten therapy, she was diagnosed with being bipolar and schizophrenic when she was a little younger and that's why she didn't take medication for it has… Maybe, if maybe yes With her medication, maybe things would have been different.” Her story will be featured in the upcoming Lifetime show “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard,” airing January 5.

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