Gypsy Rose Blanchard Opens Up on Struggle to Understand Mom's Munchausen by Proxy: 'Not Consciously Malicious' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Gypsy Rose Blanchard.Photo:Courtesy ABC News

Courtesy ABC News

In an interview with PEOPLE,  Gypsy said she is still “really, really trying to come to a place of forgiveness for her, for myself and the situation.”

“It’s a journey, but I’m starting to feel more forgiveness in understanding that it is something that maybe was out of her control,” Gypsy told PEOPLE. “Maybe it was like an addict with an impulse, and that it was not consciously malicious. And I think that helps me with coping and accepting what happened.”

Dee and Gypsy.Courtesy Blanchard Family

Courtesy Blanchard Family

Gypsy, whose story is featured in Lifetime’sThe Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard,airing on January 5, 6 and 7th at 8pm ET/PT, spoke to PEOPLE prior to her release last week from Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri. She served more than eight years in prison after plotting to murder Dee Dee, with then-boyfriendNicholas “Nick” Godejohn. The man, who Gypsy met online, went through with the plan — stabbing Dee Dee to death — while Gypsy hid in the bathroom of her home.

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Speaking about her mother’s Munchausen, Gypsy said, “I really feel like it was something psychological, that if she could have gotten therapy — she was diagnosed with bipolar and schizophrenia when she was a little younger, and so she was not taking medication for that."

Gypsy added, “And so perhaps, if maybe she was on her meds, maybe things would’ve been different. But I can’t focus on the ‘could have, shoulda have, would’ve,’ because I’ll get too deep into that rabbit hole. But I think that’s why it’s so important for me now, to take what has happened and the choice that I made to commit murder was never the right choice.”

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Gypsy said her mother didn’t “deserve” her ultimate fate.

“She was a sick woman, and unfortunately I wasn’t educated enough to see that,” she said. “She deserved to be where I am, sitting in prison doing time for criminal behavior.”

Gypsy married Ryan Scott Anderson, a Louisiana special education teacher, behind bars last year.

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source: people.com