BY NBC NEWS
Following her release from jail for the murder of her mother, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is using social media to share her side of the tale.
After completing a 10-year sentence for second-degree murder, Blanchard was freed three years ahead of schedule. She posted two videos on her Instagram about her plans for New Year’s Eve and her next endeavors.
In a video uploaded on Sunday, she introduced herself as Gypsy. “At last, I’m free!”
According to the Springfield News-Leader, Blanchard, 32, said that she was spending New Year’s Eve with her husband, Ryan Scott Anderson, 37, whom she allegedly married in 2022 while incarcerated.
In a different video that was uploaded on Sunday, she said, “We’re looking to ring in the New Year together, and it’s going to be really awesome to have some family time after so long.”
After expressing gratitude to her fans and stating that she was back in her native Louisiana, Blanchard promoted her e-book “Released: Confessions on the Eve of Freedom” and her upcoming documentary series, which would premiere on January 5.
It’s not a recounting of every incident that took place. Regarding the book, she remarked, “It’s more of a reflection of everything that I have learned and experienced in the last eight and a half years.”
Blanchard’s involvement in her mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard’s death led to her conviction for second-degree murder. Dee Dee Blanchard, according to the prosecution, had Munchausen syndrome by proxy and spent twenty years forcing her daughter to undergo needless medical procedures.
According to the National Institutes of Health, Munchausen syndrome via proxy is a disease in which a child’s caregiver fabricates or produces symptoms to make the youngster look ill.
In court, Blanchard said that her mother had made up a story about her daughter having muscular dystrophy and leukemia. She said that her mother had also forced her to eat via a feeding tube and had shaved her head in a 2017 appearance with Dr. Phil.
Prosecutors claim that Blanchard and her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn conspired to murder Blanchard’s mother in 2015. Godejohn fatally stabbed Blanchard’s mother at her Missouri home as Blanchard cowered in the toilet.
In 2019, Godejohn received a life sentence without the possibility of release, while in 2016, Blanchard received a 10-year jail term.
After receiving parole, Blanchard was freed from Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Center on December 28—three years ahead of schedule, an official told NBC News. The 32-year-old shared her “first selfie of freedom” on December 29. She was also seen going shopping, hanging out with her purported husband, and going to a welcome-home celebration with her stepsister Mia.
