Gypsy Today For a while, Gypsy likely didn't know her own age. According to Buzzfeed News, when her father called to wish her a happy 18th birthday, Gypsy's mother told him, “she thinks she's 14.” In reality, she was born on July 27, 1991, and is 30 years old.
YouTubeGypsy Rose Blanchard on a trip to Disney World, which was sponsored by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. In 2010, Dee Dee was telling everyone that Gypsy Rose was 14, but she was actually 19 years old. By then, she knew she wasn't as sick as her mother claimed — as she was well aware that she could walk.
In addition to being told she had leukemia, muscular dystrophy and epilepsy, Gypsy Rose Blanchard never even knew her real age.
In the trailer, Dee Dee says Gypsy was born in 1995, to which Gypsy responds, “I thought you said I was born in 1993?” Later, Gypsy discovers she was actually born even earlier when she finds her insurance card that states her birthday as July 1991.
Godejohn was found guilty of first-degree murder in 2018 and was sentenced to life in prison. Gypsy has stated it was only after Dee Dee's death that she realized the extent of her mother's deception. While Gypsy had known she could walk and eat regular food, she had believed she had leukemia. Today Gypsy is healthy.
According to the American Dental Association, dental extractions occur when the teeth are severely decayed, damaged, or diseased. It's unclear why Gypsy's teeth decayed, but it's likely a combination of poor dental hygiene, malnutrition, and the many unnecessary medications she was taking.
She was also seen expressing immediate regret at the murder of her mother, and was desperately attempting to cover her up. However, in an interview following her arrest, Gypsy didn't think she was going to be caught at all – in fact, she thought their entire plan was faultless.
As Dee Dee bathes her like a baby and tries to get her to sing "I'll Be There," Gypsy is livid. And immediately after treating her like a literal child, Dee Dee is angry right back because Gypsy has started her period early. The offense was apparently that Gypsy didn't immediately alert her mother to this fact.
Are Nick Godejohn and Gypsy Rose still together? Gypsy pled guilty for second-degree murder and is currently serving her 10-year sentence. She'll be eligible for parole in 2024, and has made it clear that she and Godejohn are no longer together. “He was very much like my mother in certain ways.
At the same time both qualitative and quantitative studies show a steady trend of gradual increase in the marriageable age and age at first child birth among Roma, and today most of the Romani females get married after reaching the lawful age of 18.
Rod and Gypsy have reconnected since she's been in prison.
"We email each other. She can call me anytime, and she does. I'm keeping tabs on all of her accomplishments in school.
Gypsy believed most her mother's imposed illnesses to be true, but eventually began to figure out that many of her disabilities weren't real. “There are certain illnesses I knew I didn't have. I knew I didn't need the feeding tube; I knew that I could eat. And I knew that I could walk," she said.
Yes. Her teeth began to rot and fall out as a side effect of Tegretol, a medication she was being given for epilepsy (which she didn't have). Gypsy Rose Blanchard's teeth fell out as a side effect of Tegretol, a drug she was taking for epilepsy (that her mom Dee Dee claimed she suffered from).
Prosecutors cut a deal with Gypsy, however, because of the horrific abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother. In exchange for pleading guilty to second-degree murder, Gypsy was sentenced to the minimum of 10 years in prison.
Although he traveled from Big Bend, Wisconsin, to Springfield, Missouri, the meetup didn't go as planned, but she did sneak off to have sex with him in the handicap bathroom. In the show, Nick calls Dee Dee to have it out over the terrible first impression, and she's almost too stunned to have words with Gypsy.
“I couldn't just jump out of the wheelchair because I was afraid and I didn't know what my mother would do. I didn't have anyone to trust,” Gypsy says in an exclusive clip from Investigation Discovery's documentary Gypsy's Revenge, airing on Nov.
At his sentencing hearing, Godejohn reiterated that his motivation for the crime was his love for Gypsy. "I was blindly in love," Godejohn said. "That was always very much the case." In addition to a life sentence, he received a concurrent 25-year sentence on the charge of armed criminal action.
There was no sign of her daughter, Gypsy Rose, who, according to Blanchard, had chronic conditions including leukemia, asthma, and muscular dystrophy, and who had the "mental capacity of a 7-year-old due to brain damage" as the result of premature birth.
As for her teeth, they did rot and were subsequently removed, likely due to the removal of Gypsy's salivary glands. According to Gypsy, her mother used a numbing agent to numb her gums, causing her to drool, which helped convince doctors to remove the glands.
The meeting did not go as planned—Dee Dee hated Godejohn—but Gypsy was still able to sneak away and lose her virginity to Godejohn in a bathroom stall, according to her testimony at his trial.
According to the Buzzfeed article upon which The Act is based, on Gypsy's 18th birthday her father called to say "hello." Dee Dee told him not to tell Gypsy how old she was, because supposedly Gypsy thought she was still 14.
Eventually, she destroyed Gypsy Rose's phone so the teenagers couldn't speak anymore. The friends lost touch. In doing so, Gypsy Rose lost one of her few allies outside her toxic home environment.