Gypsy Rose Blanchard Reveals Horrifying Details About How Her Mom Tortured Her
If you’ve had access to the internet for the past couple years, you’ve probably heard about this horrifying story. Gypsy Rose Blanchard is serving 10 years in prison for murdering her mother, Dee Dee, who kept Gypsy wheelchair-bound and terminally ill for years.
In a new interview with 20/20, 27-year-old Gypsy Rose shares that she once tried to run away, but her mom chained her to her bed.
People magazine has a clip of the interview, and Gypsy Rose gets very candid on life with her abusive mom. She says in 2011, her mom began using a coat hanger to strike her and that once, after she ran away, Dee Dee chained her to the bed.
“She physically chained me to the bed and put bells on the doors and told anybody that I probably would have trusted that I was going through a phase and to tell her if I was doing anything behind her back.”
When asked if she ever thought about standing up in her wheelchair in public and walking away, Gypsy Rose says it never even crossed her mind because she lived in so much fear.
“I honestly didn’t think about that,” she says. “I was always so afraid of her—afraid of the consequences after.”
It’s now believed that Dee Dee had Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a condition in which a caregiver makes up or causes an illness or injury in a person under their care to keep that person sick.
In 2015, police found Dee Dee dead and Gypsy Rose missing—when Gypsy Rose was found, she was alive and well with her boyfriend, Nick Godejohn. Eventually, both Gypsy Rose and Nick were charged in Dee Dee’s death. Nick pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and is awaiting trial, while Gypsy Rose pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is currently serving 10 years in prison.
Earlier in the interview, Gypsy Rose shares that her mom was “very protective.”
“You think she protected you?” the interviewer asks.
“No, not in—in certain ways, yes, in other ways, no,” Gypsy Rose says. “I think that she was very sick in her mind. For a long time I believed, like, we were best friends, and when I was younger, she was my best friend...other than my stuffed animals. And so I thought that she was a great mother. No complaints, we got along so perfect. I saw her as an angel that can do no wrong.”
The 20/20 interview airs Friday, January 12, on ABC.
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