Topics: Crime, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Parenting, True crime, US News, Mental Health
Gypsy Rose has spoken out about how she wish she'd acted differently with her mom.
The 32-year-old was recently released from prison after serving seven years of her 10-year sentence after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in relation to the death of her mother, Clauddine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard.
While she's spoken out about the abuse she faced at the hands of her mom, Gypsy has also spoken out about the 'regret' she feels over her death, now reflecting on what she wishes she did differently all those years ago.
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It's widely believed by not only Gypsy but several experts that Clauddine had a syndrome called Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy which sees a 'caretaker of a child [...] make up fake symptoms or cause real symptoms to make it look like the child is sick,' Medline Plus explains.
After suffering from her mother's abuse for years, Gypsy met a man online called Nicholas 'Nick' Godejohn and plotted alongside him to kill Clauddine.
Clauddine was found stabbed to death in her home in 2015 and Godejohn was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life, Gypsy sentenced to 10 years for second-degree murder.
A victim of abuse but also guilty of second-degree murder, on an episode of podcast The Viall Files, Gypsy was asked whether or not there's 'something [she] would have done different to protect [herself]'?
In a clip of the podcast shared to TikTok, Gypsy explains: "This all started when I was a child, a toddler, so I grew up in a household where my mother said that she had magical powers and she'd put a voodoo hex on me if I ever tried to leave."
Gypsy also reflects on her mother's mental health, saying Clauddine was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia which led her to say she 'heard voices and saw shapes'.
Taking all of this into consideration, Gypsy says her feeling of 'regret' goes 'back so much further than the crime' and details certain things she wished she'd done differently.
She continues: "I wish, even as a little girl, I would have maybe even said something like 'mommy hears voices' and just started telling people some of the smaller things, even if it didn't make sense to me."
However, Gypsy also notes she probably didn't make those comments because her mom 'isolated' her so much from the rest of their family.
"My younger years it was easier," she says. "But the older that I got, the more she got and the smaller of a circle we had to reach out to."
Ultimately, Gypsy is now trying her best - with the help of a therapist - to work on 'self forgiveness' and give herself 'understanding' to emotionally process everything not just that she's done, but also that she's been through.
If you’ve been affected by any of these issues and want to speak to someone in confidence regarding the welfare of a child the Childhelp USA National Child Abuse Hotline (1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453) operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and receives calls from throughout the United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico
If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available through Mental Health America. Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org. You can also reach Crisis Text Line by texting MHA to 741741.
You can also call 1-800-985-5990 or text “TalkWithUs” to 66746 at the SAMHSA Disaster Distress Helpline
