The deadly stabbing was carried out on June 9, 2015, by her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn. Godejohn was sentenced to life in jail with out parole, plus a further 25 years for armed felony motion. Gypsy, in the meantime, obtained a 10-year sentence after pleading responsible to second-degree homicide.
All through her childhood, Gypsy is believed to be a sufferer of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a type of abuse wherein a caregiver fabricates or induces diseases of their youngster to realize consideration or sympathy. This abuse formed a lot of her life and in the end performed a major position within the occasions resulting in her mom’s loss of life.
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Now, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is opening up concerning the “remaining straw” that led to her mom’s homicide in her new memoir, “My Time to Stand,” which was launched on December 10.
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard Displays On Her Childhood
Based on the now 33-year-old, the “remaining straw” occurred a month earlier than the homicide when her mom “tried to chop” her throat after her voice unexpectedly turned “high-pitched.” She recounted pleading along with her mom, insisting there was nothing unsuitable along with her voice, however Dee Dee nonetheless took her to a pulmonologist who beneficial “exploratory surgical procedure of her larynx.”
By this time, Gypsy had already tried to run away twice and had even shot her mom with a “BB gun” after Dee Dee allegedly “chained” her to the mattress, claiming Gypsy was turning into “more durable to manage” as she received older. Gypsy described the proposed voice field surgical procedure as “utterly pointless” and mentioned it made her “actually” worry the “scope of [her mom’s] malice.”
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Gypsy Claims Her Mother ‘Muzzled’ Her Mouth
Earlier than the deliberate surgical procedure, Gypsy mentioned her mom would “muzzle” her mouth at night time with a CPAP machine “for my faux sleep apnea” and use Orajel to “numb” her mouth, inflicting her to “drool and slur.” She additionally held Dee Dee answerable for her enamel falling out, which she attributed to “unintended effects of superfluous medicines.”
“By talking for me and scripting my each interplay, she disadvantaged me of discovering my very own voice. Now, the best way I noticed it, my literal voice, squeaky because it could be, may very well be taken from me. Her remaining play,” the ex-con wrote.
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard Describes Unsettling Physician’s Visits
“I at all times had this stuffed animal or a Barbie doll, [and Dee Dee would] simply inform me [to] ‘play together with your Barbie doll and when the physician comes to look at me, simply keep within the wheelchair; be calm; play together with your doll, and do not transfer your legs’,” she recalled in an interview whereas she was nonetheless in jail for the 2017 documentary “Mommy Useless and Dearest.”
“I used to be simply as a lot in the dead of night as a lot as everybody else,” she added. “[The] solely factor I knew is that I may stroll. As for every thing else, the leukemia the epilepsy, I used to be taking remedy that [Dee Dee] mentioned was most cancers medication.”
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Dee Dee Shaved Gypsy Rose’s Head
Gypsy shared that her mom even went as far as to shave her head, telling her, “It is going to fall out anyway, so let’s simply hold it good and neat.”
As for a way Dee Dee managed to deceive so many docs, it’s believed that the medicines she administered to Gypsy “induced lots of the signs of ailments [that] docs thought they have been treating.”
Over a span of 9 years, Dee Dee introduced Gypsy to the hospital greater than 100 occasions, citing varied fabricated medical circumstances.
Gypsy Rose Goes To Jail For Her Involvement In Her Mother’s Homicide
In 2016, Gypsy pleaded responsible to second-degree homicide for her position within the loss of life of her mom, Dee Dee. She was sentenced to 10 years in jail and launched on parole on December 28, 2023, after serving 85% of her sentence.
Her then-boyfriend, Godejohn, who carried out the deadly stabbing in 2015 at Gypsy’s urging, was sentenced to life in jail with out the potential for parole.
Throughout her trial, Gypsy testified that the explanation she conspired to kill her mom was the years of abuse she endured, which left her feeling as if homicide was her solely escape. She recounted how Dee Dee pressured her to make use of a wheelchair and bear numerous pointless medical checks and procedures.
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Dee Dee additionally exploited her daughter by portraying her as a terminally in poor health and disabled youngster to realize sympathy and gather charitable donations from organizations like Make-A-Want and The Walt Disney Firm, all whereas exerting full management over Gypsy’s life.
