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Raymond Hall/GC Images/Getty ImagesGypsy Rose Blanchard She received many charitable donations while living with her late mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchardbut that's not something she likes to think about now.
Gypsy Rose, 33, wrote about growing up with Dee Dee In her new memoir, My time to stand upwhich hit shelves on Tuesday, December 10. Throughout her childhood, Dee Dee allegedly abused her daughter by falsely claiming that she suffered from numerous physical and mental illnesses. According to Gypsy, her mother then asked relevant charitable organizations for donations.
“I didn’t know I could think for myself until I started searching the Internet using an HP Notebook computer. “I was told the computer was a gift from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society one Christmas,” Gypsy wrote, adding that the organization thought she was old. 13 when she was actually 18 “We received a lot of help and gifts from charities along with government benefits, like food stamps, disability checks, and Section 8 housing. It actually makes my skin crawl.
Gypsy said she watched her mother “move her way around the system, subtly searching” for nonprofits and groups that could help her family.
“I didn't know it was a scam until about a year after finding my Medicaid card with my correct date of birth, when my mom became more physical and violent with me after I re-questioned her about it, and she refused to tell her story.” ,” she wrote. “Finding out my real birth date wasn’t an ‘aha moment’ per se, but it was a wake-up call for me to be more vigilant and watch more closely.”
In June 2015, Dee Dee was found dead at the age of 48 in her and Gypsy's Mississippi home with multiple stab wounds. Gypsy was later arrested with her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn. She later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
In September 2023, Gypsy was granted parole after serving seven years of her sentence, and was released from prison in December 2023. Meanwhile, Godejohn was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Earlier this year, Gypsy announced this She is pregnant With her first child Ken Orker. She and Orker met while she was still incarcerated through the prison pen pals program. After their separation, she married Ryan Scott Anderson in 2022 during her time behind bars, but filed for divorce in April. Later that month, she confirmed that she was back with her ex-fiancé Urker.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is opening up about exploring her sexuality while serving time in prison for the 2015 murder of her mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard. “A big part of femininity is… To learn how to become comfortable with her sexuality, and I wasn't for years.”
Gypsy reveals in the book that her first audiogram was scheduled for the ninth anniversary of her mother's death, which she had previously celebrated by speaking out loud to her late mother.
“Whether it was a message, a sign, or the balance of the universe (or all three), what was a history defined by scandal, horror, and grief beyond comprehension is now a day of excitement, joy, and celebration of life itself,” she wrote. “With one phone call and an appointment on the calendar, a day of darkness turned into a day of light.”
My time to stand up Out now.
