Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s Lies
Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s story about the night she and her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, murdered her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, keeps shifting like sand. From her testimony during Godejohn’s trial to the HBO Documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest to the Lifetime docuseries The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Gypsy has shaved the edges off and even changed details from statements surrounding why she murdered her mother, whose idea it was, and what happened in the hours leading up to the murder. She appears to be resuscitating her lost innocence in the eyes of the public. She has said she doesn’t identify with the word “murderer.” The state of Missouri might disagree. She pled guilty to second-degree murder, and a parole board let her walk free in December because she took full responsibility for her crime and said, very convincingly, that she feels remorse.
Listening to her now, as she took the country by storm in national television interviews and podcasts, it’s hard to know what she feels, aside from an all — consuming desire for public adoration. And she’s getting it from the rabid millions of TikTok and Instagram followers who shout down and try to deplatform anyone who disagrees with them. A survivor of Munchausen by Proxy nearly got her TikTok account permanently banned when she pointed out some of the inconsistencies…
