The need to be freed from her mom’s abuse had been brewing inside Gypsy Rose Blanchard lengthy earlier than she hatched her notorious homicide plot.
The previous convict not too long ago opened up about attempting to kill her mom, Dee Dee Blanchard, after she was severely punished for making an attempt to flee the matriarch’s manipulation. The incident alleged occurred throughout a heated argument, the place Gypsy picked up a gun and fired away.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard Feared For Her Life After Her Mother Purchased A Gun
After spending almost a decade behind bars for taking part in her mom’s homicide, Gypsy is utilizing her newfound freedom to unfold consciousness in regards to the abuse she endured. She recalled the time she tried killing Dee Dee with a gun in a brand new Lifetime docuseries, “The Jail Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.”
The 32-year-old tried to flee her mom’s manipulation after assembly an older man named Dan at a sci-fi conference. He was 36, whereas she believed she was simply 15 once they started chatting on-line.
Nonetheless, Gypsy discovered she was 19 and ran away to be with Dan. Sadly, she unintentionally left her cellphone at dwelling, and Dee Dee uncovered the messages crammed along with her escape plans.
The matriarch tracked down different convention-goers and located somebody who knew Dan’s tackle. As soon as she dragged her daughter again dwelling, Gypsy claimed she was severely crushed, chained her to the mattress, and had a “voodoo hex” positioned on her. In her phrases:
“She took each precaution she may to verify I made no makes an attempt to succeed in anybody by social media. My mother purchased a gun, and that scared the ever dwelling eff out of me. I used to be afraid that she would kill me.”
Regardless of shedding contact with Dan, the 32-year-old famous she by no means stopped planning to flee her mom’s abuse. However, all her efforts had been thwarted by Dee Dee till the losses lastly led to a heated confrontation.
Throughout their argument, Gypsy famous her mother dropped the gun on the desk in entrance of them. However the youthful Blanchard instinctively defended herself with the weapon when issues escalated. “I grabbed the gun, and I threatened her with it, and earlier than I knew it, I pulled the set off as many instances as I may,” she recalled within the docuseries, including:
“Once I shot my mom, I simply keep in mind considering, ‘Oh my god, did I simply do this? What did I simply do?’ A few them hit her, a few them hit the wall. However the wounds had been superficial; it barely grazed her.”
“That’s once I realized it was a BB gun, and that made me really feel relieved. I didn’t intend to kill her. However I used to be shocked I pulled the set off in any respect,” Gypsy claimed. Upon realizing her mom wasn’t in peril, the stress left her physique, and the duo continued their dialog.
The previous convict famous that she “offloaded all my anger and questions” in the direction of her mother, questioning why she wasn’t allowed to have “a standard life.” Dee Dee allegedly instructed her that she required particular care and as soon as once more coerced her daughter into a lifetime of faux medical diagnoses and coverings.
“I began crying, and I instructed her, ‘I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry I damage you,’” Gypsy continued. “My mother was such an excellent grasp manipulator that she was in a position to flip me proper again into submission once more.”
Gypsy Rose Is Not Allowed To Talk With Her Ex-Boyfriend
The timeline of Gypsy’s BB gun episode with Dee Dee falls round 2011, 4 years earlier than the matriarch was brutally stabbed to loss of life. In 2015, the youthful Blanchard deliberate her mom’s loss of life along with her ex-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn.
Whereas the grotesque crime earned Gypsy almost a decade behind bars, her former beau was given a harsher sentence of life imprisonment. As said, the 32-year-old is out on parole, however her freedom got here with strict guidelines, together with zero communication with Godejohn.
Her parole circumstances explicitly state that she can not speak to him, whether or not via e mail, textual content, writing, and even via any third occasion. Gypsy, who’s at present again dwelling in Louisiana along with her husband, Ryan Scott Anderson, can also be required to finish an outpatient psychological well being program.
Gypsy and Godejohn had been on-line buddies for 2 years earlier than lastly assembly in individual for a film date. The duo’s intensive textual content exchanges revealed they deliberate to marry, begin a household, and had even chosen names for his or her future kids.
Nonetheless, their first bodily assembly wasn’t for a romantic film date however to execute their plan to homicide Dee Dee. Godejohn had traveled from Wisconsin to Missouri to do the evil deed on June 9, 2015.
