Gypsy Rose Blanchard has revealed that she continues to be haunted by her late mother’s last words in a new documentary.
The now 33-year-old was 23 when she told her internet boyfriend at the time, Nicholas Godejohn, to knife her mother, Clauddine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard, to death in June 2015.
Dee Dee was found drenched in her own blood with 14 stab wounds inside their home located in Springfield, Missouri.
Gypsy said she had endured years of abuse from Dee Dee who who falsely claimed she suffered from an array of illnesses, including leukemia and muscular dystrophy.
Her mother shaved her head, pushed her around in a wheelchair and even had some of her teeth removed so she would fit the image of a ‘sick child’.
Speaking on Channel 4’s new series, Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up, which follows her in the months following her prison release, she admitted she’s never been able to escape her mother’s final cries for help.
Gypsy – who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and spent a ten-year sentence in jail – told the broadcaster: ‘I hear screaming and that’s when I hear her calling my name.
‘”Gypsy help me” to this day, I can’t get it out of my head.’
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who was jailed for eight years after encouraging her internet boyfriend to kill her mother Dee Dee in 2015, has spoken out in a new documentary
Gypsy Rose Blanchard has revealed that she continues to be haunted by her late mother’s last words in a new documentary (pictured together)
Blanchard, now 33, was 23 when she instructed her boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to stab her mother, Clauddine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard, to death
Gypsy, now a mother herself, added: ‘Doctors is what I knew, hospitals is what I knew, surgeries is what I knew. I wanted that life I was living to be over.’
Her ordeal came to an end a decade ago when Godejohn stole a knife from Walmart and butchered Dee Dee to death while Gypsy hid in the bathroom with her hands over her ears.
Wearing her beige prison jumpsuit in her last interview inside the prison, Gypsy added: ‘I want to live a simple life that everybody else takes for granted.
‘I don’t want to be remembered as the girl who killed my mother, who was abused by my mother. I want this to be okay you know my story, now let’s see what I do with my life.’
Gypsy’s father also opened up about feeling regretful for not spotting that his daughter needed help.
He met Dee Dee while still in high school and the pair married once they found out they were going to have a child together.
However, it has been reported that they split up shortly after Gypsy was born, with Rod maintaining a close relationship with his daughter during her early years.
This became increasingly difficult as Dee Dee became more controlling over Gypsy’s life, with experts believing she had Munchausen syndrome, which is where guardians seek attention or sympathy by making their child ill or exaggerating their condition.
She had endured years of abuse from Dee Dee, who falsely claimed she suffered from an array of illnesses, including leukemia and muscular dystrophy
‘I wasn’t the best dad, I should’ve checked, I had my suspicions, one of the biggest regrets I have is not making her feel like she can come to me,’ Rod said.
‘[I regret] so much, honestly. I could’ve done so much more, dug a little deeper.’
Upon seeing her father for the first time outside of prison, the pair had an emotional embrace, with Rod saying: ‘You’re free huh? I am so happy for you. I missed you. It’s been a long time since I saw you.’
Rod remarried a woman named Kristy and went on to have Mia, who also features in the documentary.
Kristy spoke about her stepdaughter Gypsy on the series and said: ‘She thought that after we heard everything we were going to leave, I don’t condone what she did but I understood.
‘I put my hand on that glass and so did she and I said “I will never leave your side” because that’s what mums do.’
However, the episode highlighted the difficulties that Gypsy has faced since leaving the facility and having to report to parole officers.
She had hoped to see Kansas City Chiefs game a day or two after her release and claimed this was initially signed off.
She gave birth exactly one year after she was released from prison after serving seven years behind bars for her part in the killing of her abusive mother, Claudine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard
In 2015, Gypsy (left) let her besotted internet boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn (right), creep into their Springfield, Missouri, home to stab 48-year-old Dee Dee to death
Gypsy spent her childhood posing as a wheelchair-bound invalid after her mom, Dee Dee, convinced the world she was suffering from leukemia and muscular dystrophy
Blanchard was jailed for second-degree murder after persuading Nicholas Godejohn, a boyfriend she had met online, to creep into their home in Springfield, Missouri and stab her mother to death. Godejohn remains in jail serving a life sentence
Gypsy was assigned two parole officers one in Missouri and one in Louisiana, the state she moved to with her then-husband Ryan Scott Anderson.
The pair have since called it quits, with Gypsy filing for divorce in April 2024. She is now dating Ken Urker, with the couple welcoming their baby girl Aurora on December 28 last year.
But Gypsy’s Missouri parole officer rang her and informed her that she could not watch the Kansas City Chief’s game and instead had to go straight from Missouri to Louisiana.
Her former attorney, Mike Stanfield, dealt with the situation while Gypsy was seen crying to her stepmother and asking: ‘What if they’re going to send me back?’
She said: ‘This is was supposed to be a good day and want to have a good day with everyone else too but I also just want to do what I’m supposed to on parole. I don’t understand why I have to be different.
‘I don’t understand what makes me different because to me I’m just average and I guess I’m just getting a huge culture shock.
‘At the end of the day I will still do whatever it takes to make me free. I do not feel free right now, I feel like I’m in another form of prison.’
The mother-of-one was granted an early release in December 2023 but is still on parole as she needs to serve her full ten year sentence and will be entirely free in June this year. Godejohn remains behind bars serving a life sentence.
Gypsy said she had endured years of abuse from Dee Dee who who falsely claimed she suffered from an array of illnesses
Gypsy has since admits that she regrets what happened ‘every single day’
Gypsy is pictured with her mother, Claudine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard
Gypsy is pictured with her father, Rod, who speaks in the new documentary
The new documentary is airing after Gypsy revealed what her last words to Dee Dee were.
‘I can honestly say I would have never committed that crime had I not been pushed to the brink, where I really just snapped,’ Blanchard said in an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday night.
She revealed her last words to her mother were ‘I love you’.
In her memoir, My Time To Stand, Gypsy shed more light on their relationship.
‘People really want to know: What was the final straw? When was the moment when I decided it was her or me?’ Blanchard wrote.
‘One month before the murder, my mother tried to cut my throat. At least that’s how I saw it,’ she claimed.
Since Blanchard’s early childhood, Dee Dee had told everyone that her daughter suffered from a litany of ailments from leukemia to epilepsy.
She convinced surgeons to perform needless procedures on Blanchard. There was a surgery to remove her salivary gland. Doctors surgically inserted a feeding tube into her stomach – reducing her diet to a paltry stream of Pedialyte that Dee Dee herself rationed out.
She shared a photo from her past next to a recent selfie alongside a caption about ‘overcoming the past’ earlier this month
And Dee Dee even regularly shaved Gypsy Rose’s head to mimic the appearance of chemotherapy patients.
Perhaps Dee Dee’s cruelest ruse was convincing people that Blanchard was quadriplegic by forcing her daughter to use a wheelchair at all times, even when they were alone at home.
Privately, she beat Blanchard with her hands or a coat hanger for minor infractions like getting out of the wheelchair in the bathroom, or for speaking directly to a doctor.
Having no reason to distrust her mother, Blanchard also believed that she was unwell. She went along with many of the fake diagnoses and operations, gratefully receiving local media attention and even gifts from charities.
Habitat for Humanity custom-built them a home in Springfield – complete with a wheelchair ramp – after their house was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
But as the years went on, a nagging fear gripped Blanchard: She didn’t really feel sick.
She is now one of the world’s most well-known victims of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy – a rare psychological disorder where a caregiver creates the illusion of illness in another person.
After enduring as many as 30 surgeries, Blanchard began to suspect her mother.
Gypsy and her partner Ken Urker announced they were expecting in July, and later welcomed a baby girl, Aurora
On one occasion she tried to run away in the middle of the night to be with Godejohn. But Dee Dee tracked them down and dragged Blanchard home, chaining her to the bed for two weeks.
But as Blanchard aged she became more difficult to control and after Dee Dee planned another, particularly invasive exploratory procedure on Blanchard’s throat in May 2015, she says, something inside her snapped.
‘I’d had previous surgeries on my neck and the scars brutalized me,’ she wrote.
‘But there was something about this particular surgery that felt more threatening than the others. Even more so than all the other body parts that had been constantly searched, explored, against my will, without my consent.
‘The way I saw it, my literal voice… could be taken from me. Her final play. Any slip of the hand could leave me voiceless, mute, forever. This is what I believed. This is when the thought finally came: It’s me or her.’
‘Nobody will ever hear me say I’m glad she’s dead or I’m proud of what I did,’ Blanchard told People shortly before her release. ‘I regret it every single day.
‘She didn’t deserve that. She was a sick woman and, unfortunately, I wasn’t educated enough to see that. She deserved to be where I am, sitting in prison doing time for criminal behavior.’
While in prison, Gypsy had bonded with her now-partner, Ken, after he sent her a letter; they started corresponding and things soon turned romantic, with him proposing in 2018.
Gypsy is pictured with her now-estranged husband Ryan Anderson in January 2024
But after the Hulu show The Act – which starred Joey King as Gypsy and Patricia Arquette as her mother – premiered a few months later and put an intense spotlight on Gypsy’s story, she admitted in her memoir that Ken couldn’t handle all the sudden attention.
They ultimately split and she moved on with Ryan Scott Anderson, and they wed in July 2022.
Ryan was by her side when she was freed – but just three months later, news hit the web that they had split.
Soon after, it was reported that Gypsy had reconciled with her ex, Ken; she then revealed that they were expecting in July.
In a YouTube video at the time, Gypsy spoke about how her horrific upbringing would affect her outlook on motherhood.
‘All the things that I wanted in a mother, I want to give to this baby,’ she stated. ‘I just want to be a good mother to my child, I want to be everything my mother wasn’t.’
Gypsy added that the pregnancy had given her ‘freedom in a way she never expected,’ and a newfound peace on ‘everything that has ever happened to her.’
‘It doesn’t matter because it all lead to me to be who I am today,’ she stated. ‘It all lead me to this moment right here right now.’
Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up is available to watch now on Channel 4.
