Gypsy Rose Blanchard declares she’s ‘finally free’ in first message since prison release
Gypsy Rose Blanchard – who helped murder her mother in the US – has spoken for the first time since she was released from prison.
The 32-year-old said ‘I’m finally free’ and ‘back home in Louisiana’, in a TikTok video where she also thanked her many supporters.
She was released on December 28 after pleading guilty to second degree murder and serving seven years of a 10-year-sentence.
In 2015 Gypsy asked her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to stab her mum Clauddine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard to death, which he did, while she waited in another room.
Prior to the murder, Dee Dee spent several years convincing her daughter that she was sick with various illnesses when she wasn’t and forced her to undergo painful surgeries, take medication and use a wheel chair.
It’s also claimed her mum kept her imprisoned and malnourished, regularly shaved her head to look like a cancer patient and told others she had the mental capacity of a seven-year-old due to brain damage at birth.
Gypsy met Godejohn – who is serving life without parole – online in 2012 and told him about her mother’s abuse and together they formed a plan to kill her.
In a video posted on TikTok and Instagram yesterday, she said: ‘Hey everyone, this is Gypsy. I’m finally free.
‘I just wanted to send a quick video to thank everyone for the massive amount of support that I’ve been getting on social media. Everyone has been really, really nice and supportive and I really appreciate that.
‘It’s nice to be home. I’m back home in Louisiana, enjoying a beautiful day outside and I’ve got a lot of great things happening really soon.’
Gypsy told viewers about her upcoming docuseries, The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, as well as her soon-to-be published e-book, Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom.
‘It’s not a rehashing of everything that happened, it’s more of my reflection of everything that I’ve learned and experienced in the last eight and a half years,’ she said.
Gypsy’s story was the subject of the 2019 US Hulu documentary The Act, which revealed the years of abuse Dee Dee subjected her daughter to and the many lies she told to make people believe Gypsy was sick.
Dee Dee’s fabrications convinced many, and the pair were given free tickets to Disney World, backstage passes to concerts and media attention, with Habitat for Humanity even building the family a home with a wheelchair ramp and a hot tub.
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