Gypsy Rose Blanchard Reveals She Has Minor Imaginative and prescient Impairment

Gypsy Rose Blanchard suffered from years of abuse by the hands of her mom, Dee Dee Blanchard, who’s believed to have had Munchausen by proxy.

The 32-year-old, who was launched on parole in December 2023 after serving 85% of her sentence for her involvement in her mom’s homicide, reportedly had a mess of diseases, starting from bronchial asthma and sleep apnea to leukemia and muscular dystrophy.

It was later revealed that Gypsy Rose Blanchard didn’t undergo from many of the diseases Dee Dee Blanchard claimed she had, however she did undergo from at the very least one.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s medical issues started when she was a child when Dee Dee Blanchard claimed her daughter had sleep apnea.

Ever since, Dee Dee went on to say she had muscular dystrophy and wanted a wheelchair, in addition to leukemia, bronchial asthma, muscular dystrophy, seizures, imaginative and prescient and listening to impairments, developmental delays, a chromosomal defect, amongst different issues.

It was later revealed that Gypsy didn’t really want a wheelchair and didn’t have lots of the diseases, however she did have one.

Gypsy’s pediatrician, Dr. Rob Steele, was additionally interviewed for the mission. He started seeing Gypsy in 2005 when she was 14 years previous. He claimed that when he was treating her, Dee Dee might “by no means present” her earlier medical information. “If I might have seen [the records] earlier on, I simply suppose a number of issues would have been completely different,” he claimed.

The producers behind “The Jail Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard” obtained a few of Gypsy’s never-before-released medical information. As Dr. Steele went via the pile, he was in a position to verify that Gypsy had strabismus as an toddler, which is when one eye or each marvel, and over time, you go blind.

“You do need to have surgical procedure to appropriate the issue,” Dr. Steele stated, which explains the surgical procedure Gypsy had earlier than she was one 12 months previous – one thing that she claims she had no concept occurred.

She did, nonetheless, admit to having “points in [her] proper eye,” and so she does “know there was an actual drawback.”

What this implies is that Gypsy Rose did, in truth, undergo from minor imaginative and prescient impairment in her eye. Nonetheless, that’s the solely medical prognosis medical professionals might verify she had.

Shortly after being launched from jail, Gypsy Rose Blanchard sat down with A&E, the place she advocated for different victims of Munchausen by proxy.

“The recommendation that I’d give is: Please inform somebody. Even for those who don’t suppose they’ll imagine you. It doesn’t need to be somebody shut,” she stated. “Nonetheless, if there’s simply somebody that you just belief, even somewhat bit, inform somebody and actually know that you just’re not alone. There shall be folks that may assist you to out.”

“As a result of I share my story to be a cautionary story. I did issues the incorrect method,” Gypsy added.

Following the discharge of “Jail Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard,” Lifetime is able to launch one other docuseries, this time following Gypsy’s journey after being launched on parole.

“Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up” will start simply earlier than her jail launch and can proceed via the next weeks and months.

“It was crucial to me as a result of once we have been engaged on ‘Jail Confessions,’ I had been so open and trustworthy and uncooked about what jail life was like for me,” she advised The Hollywood Reporter. “And so I used to be sitting in my jail cell on the finish of December, and I used to be like, I’m so uninterested in all these jail labels and all these labels that folks placed on me, and I need to present that I’m greater than that.”

The primary episode of “Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up” shall be launched on June 3.