Gypsy Rose Blanchard Drops 10 More Bombshells In New Book

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who was just released from prison on Dec. 28, 2023, after serving more than eight years for killing her abusive mother in 2015, published a book Tuesday in which she revealed more shocking details about her life before and after the murder.

Blanchard co-wrote “Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom” with Michele Matrisciani and Melissa Moore, who interviewed her while she was in prison. Their interviews are featured on Lifetime’s docuseries, “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard,” and the book is supplemented by transcripts of their other conversations and Blanchard’s personal accounts of her traumatic upbringing.

Her mother, Dee Dee, is believed to have had a factitious disorder imposed on another, formerly known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy, and fooled doctors into treating her daughter for nonexistent illnesses, including leukemia, muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, and a chromosomal disorder, among other ailments. At the same time, Dee Dee was accepting funds — and even a house — from charitable organizations.

Here are some of the revelations Blanchard shared about her life before and after she persuaded her online boyfriend, Nick Godejohn, to fatally stab her mother. Although she was 23 (but thought she was 18), the murder was the only way, she said, she could escape the horrific abuse.

Blanchard didn’t learn that all of her illnesses had been faked until after her arrest.

Although she joined her mother in lying about her need to use a wheelchair (she could and did walk) and was bald not from medication but because she shaved her head, Gypsy Rose had a hard time believing her public defender when he said she didn’t have cancer “or any of the illnesses that had defined me and