Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who was abused by her mother as a child and accused of her own murder, is expected to be released from prison earlier than expected Thursday after eight years. Blanchard, 32, will be released three years before her original release date.
In 2016, Blanchard was convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison for planning with her boyfriend, Nicholas Godjon, the murder of her mother, Claudine "Diddy" Blanchard, who was stabbed to death in her bed by Godjon. After her death, it was discovered that Blanchard had been abused, and that her mother had apparently suffered from Munchausen syndrome by courier. Gypsy Rose's story was adapted into a television series called "Crime: Gypsy Rose" starring Joey King and a successful documentary film called "Mom Murdered Me".
Mother Diddy raised Gypsy alone after separating from her biological father shortly after her birth. Although she was perfectly healthy, during Gypsy's life her mother would take her to various doctors to claim that she suffered from various diseases such as leukemia and muscular dystrophy, forcing her to use a wheelchair even though she did not need it.
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In addition, her mother forced her to use an oxygen tank, feeding her with a tube unnecessarily and forcing her to avoid sugar on the grounds that she was allergic. Gypsy stopped going to school when she finished second grade, instead, Claudine homeschooled her on the grounds that her illness had worsened, isolating her.
In 2005, following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, the two left their public housing and moved to Missouri. The story of Claudine and Gypsy attracted media attention, and after a house was built for them by an association, the townspeople enlisted to help the two, and thus the mother obtained many donations claiming the health of her home.
Gypsy's appearance, which was 1.50, bald, wearing glasses, and some of her missing teeth reinforced the mother's claim that she had multiple medical problems. Because Gypsy's birth certificate was destroyed in the hurricane, the mother claimed Gypsy was 14 when she was actually 18, and argued that she was incompetent to decide for herself.
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The mother used physical violence against her daughter, beating her when she tried to imply that she was healthy. and injected her with paralyzing and blurring substances before inspections by doctors and social services in order to create the impression that she was not communicating properly.
At night, Gypsy would sneak in without her mother's knowledge to connect to a computer, where she met her boyfriend, Nicholas Godjon, a young man with autism, on a Christian dating site through a dating site. Gypsy convinced Godjon that in order for them to live together, he had to murder her mother, and so on June 14, 2014, when the mother fell asleep, Godjon rammed into their home and stabbed her mother to death.
In a 2017 television interview, Gypsy expressed regret over her mother's death, despite the abuse she endured, saying, "I have to pray to forgive my mother, but right now the hardest thing is to forgive myself."
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