Gypsy Rose Blanchard was kept prisoner by her mother Dee Dee for 20 years — then she and her boyfriend
Gypsy Rose Blanchard (born 1991), American woman convicted of second-degree murder of her mother in 2015.
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.
It's a mental disorder, also known as factitious disorder, that involves a parent exaggerating, inducing or making up illnesses for a child that is not actually sick. People may do this to gain sympathy, attention and money. It is a form of child abuse.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Speech experts have weighed in on why her voice was so high pitched, with some reasoning that she was doing it almost unconsciously in response to being infantilized by her mother, Dee Dee, who had convinced her that she was years younger than she was.
Experts say that Gypsy Rose was the victim of a condition previously known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy—now referred to as factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA)—a mental health disorder where a caregiver makes up or causes an illness or injury to a person under their care for attention and sympathy.
Gypsy was also awarded the Oley Foundation's Child of the Year award for 2007. The Oley site said she was 12 years old at the time she received the award. In actuality, she was 16. As of the The Act's premiere in March 2019, the real Gypsy Rose is 27.
However, Gypsy wasn't actually unwell — her mother had been lying about her symptoms. Experts believe Dee Dee's behavior stemmed from the mental disorder Munchausen syndrome by proxy; because Dee Dee wanted to be a caretaker, she feigned and induced illness in her daughter.
According to Godejohn, he and Gypsy Rose had sex in Gypsy's bedroom after the crime. Godejohn had asked Gypsy to clean up the blood from a wound on his finger while naked — a sexual fantasy of his — that resulted in the two having sex just minutes after her mother was brutally murdered.
Traditionally, traveller kids leave education after primary school in order to learn 'traditional skills' at home. For boys, this means trades such as bricklaying or tree-cutting, as well as learning to do odd jobs.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
In addition to being told she had leukemia, muscular dystrophy and epilepsy, Gypsy Rose Blanchard never even knew her real age.
When she turned 5, Dee Dee declared Gypsy could no longer walk, because she had muscular dystrophy and epilepsy. She put her daughter in a wheelchair.
When Gypsy was a child, her mom Dee Dee told her that she suffered from leukemia and a host of other health issues. Gypsy revealed in a 20/20 interview that the only medical condition she actually has is a lazy eye.
Joey King reveals she shaved her head to get into character as Gypsy Rose Blanchard in The Act... after she said it felt 'really empowering' to go bald. She's set to portray Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a woman who murdered her mother Dee Dee in 2015 after she convinced her she was ill her entire life.
Gypsy hid in the bathroom and covered her ears so that she would not have to hear her mother screaming. Godejohn then stabbed Dee Dee 17 times in her back while she was asleep.