Gypsy-Rose Blanchard spent eight years for the murder of her abusive mother. With a new memoir, she wants to set the record straight
itting in a white armchair on the Sunday morning after Thanksgiving, the soft bayou light streaming into her family home, something is bugging Gypsy-Rose Blanchard. in her distinctive, high-pitched voice. All around her, there are family photos and reminders of people who love her. There’s a sign across from her that reaffirms this.But she keeps no pictures of her mother around.
Instead, her reality is much more complicated. It’s why, she says, she felt compelled to tell her story in full. On Dec. 10, Blanchard will release her memoir,, which details her mother’s suspected case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy — a mental illness in which a caretaker makes up fake symptoms or causes real ones to appear that a healthy child is sick — and the abuse Gypsy suffered as a result.
The book itself outlines the story of a young, poor girl growing up in Louisiana and Missouri, bound to a single mother who made Blanchard think that it was them against the world. To win, Dee Dee had to lie, cheat, and steal, with Blanchard as an accomplice to her mother’s fraud and a victim of her abuse. She worked with two co-writers for it, Melissa Moore and Michele Matrisciani, who began working with her when she was still in prison and uncertain of any early release.
“I didn’t want to make the sole point of the book, but I did want readers to understand that there is a level of trauma,” she says. “It’s not something that happens and then you just go back to your daily life and you’re fine. It’s something that doesn’t go away.” She also understands that there appears to be a disconnect between saying she wants a private and quiet life with her burgeoning career as a social-media influencer and reality-TV star. Blanchard has recently stayed in the headlines on gossip sites thanks to her“It’s how it is right now,” she says. “I don’t think the public will ever let me fade into obscurity altogether. I think there will always be curiosity about what I’m doing in my life. And I have come to accept it.
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