Gypsy Rose Blanchard Says Her Mom Chained Her to a Bed For 2 Weeks Following Escape Attempt

Mar. 15, 2025

Gypsy Rose Blanchard.Photo:Nathan Papes-USA TODAY NETWORK

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Gypsy Rose Blanchardwas once chained to a bed for weeks after she tried to escape from her mother, she claims in an upcoming episode of a new docuseries.

Gypsy gained notoriety after she and her then-boyfriendNicholas Godejohnkilled Dee Dee Blanchard in her home in Springfield, Mo., in 2015. Gypsy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison and wasreleased on parole on Dec. 28after serving more than eight years.

But according to Gypsy in episode three of the Lifetime docuseriesThe Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard,the 2015 murder wasn’t the first time she attempted to escape her mother’s clutches.

Having left the home she shared with Dee Dee in the middle of the night in 2011, Gypsy ran away to the home of a man she met online after discovering she was 19 years old, four years older than her mother had claimed she was. The escape was short-lived, however.

As Gypsy tells it in the show, Dee Dee showed up at the man’s house early the next morning and was able to convince her traumatized daughter to return home. That’s when Dee Dee decided to punish Gypsy.

“When she got me inside the house, she chained me to the bed, she smashed my computer and my cell phone and I was chained for two weeks,” Gypsy recalls in episode three.

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Dee Dee used handcuffs and a dog leash to bind her daughter to the bed, Gypsy says. Furthermore, Gypsy said Dee Dee was connected to the leash, meaning she could feel it any time her daughter would move.

“I was at her mercy for everything,” Gypsy says. “So, to go to the bathroom, for food. As punishment, she would not feed me every day and she would eat whatever she wanted.”

Gypsy repeated the claim about being chained to the bed on an appearance onThe ViewFriday. Also appearing on the ABC panel show was Gypsy’s husband, Ryan Scott Anderson, whom she married in 2022.

In addition toThe Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard,Gypsy’s story was also the subject of the HBO documentaryMommy Dead and Dearestand the inspiration for the Hulu scripted seriesThe Act.

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source: people.com