Gypsy Rose Blanchard, whose story has been told numerous times including in Hulu’s The Act, shared her own account of her past in a series of candid interviews over the course of 18 months for the Lifetime documentary The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
Gypsy was released from prison last month on parole after serving eight and a half years of a 10-year prison sentence. She pleaded guilty to persuading Nicholas Godejohn, a boyfriend she met online, to kill her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, who had forced Gypsy to pretend for years that she was suffering from serious illnesses, including leukemia and muscular dystrophy.
"I think the biggest reason why I held back all this time and am kind of coming forward now, is because I just wasn’t emotionally ready at the time,” she told The Hollywood Reporter of why the timing was right to open up in such a honest fashion. “There are a lot of things to unpack in my life — more than just with my mother. And so I think at the time of doing my previous interviews, everything was so surrounded around my mother and I. So I think now I’m coming to a place where I could be more confident to open up a little bit more and feel like I’m in a safe space enough to [open up]. That’s why I’m so candid in this documentary.”
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