Gypsy Rose Blanchard Claims Her Biggest Regret Isn't Murdering Her Mom
By Kelly Coffey-Behrens on January 7, 2024 at 4:00 PM EST
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is admitting what her biggest regret is and it's not the fact that she plotted to murder her mom, Dee Dee Blanchard.
Fresh out of prison, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is telling her story, including how she was a victim of Munchausen by proxy syndrome and how she wishes she found another way out rather than resulting in murder.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard Regrets Not Reaching Out For Help
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Although she has admitted in the past that she does regret partaking in her mother's murder, she is now saying her biggest regret is not reaching out for help, specifically to her dad.
"I have many regrets, but the biggest one is that I didn't call my dad and just express how much I needed his help," the now 32-year-old recently confessed.
"I always say that if I had someone to tell me, 'Hey it's safe to talk to someone and tell them that you're struggling, tell them that your home situation is bad tell them you're being abused' I wouldn't have committed my crime," she told Entertainment Tonight regarding her plotting a way to murder her mother.
As you may know, Gypsy Rose was believed to be a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological disorder that investigators believe her mother, Dee Dee, had.
For those of you who do not know, Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a psychological disorder in which a caretaker (usually a parent) either makes up fake symptoms or causes real symptoms to make it look like the child is sick.
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In this case, Dee Dee not only convinced family and friends, but she also convinced Gypsy herself and many doctors that her daughter suffered from various illnesses. She went as far as claiming Gypsy Rose was paralyzed from the waist down, needing a wheelchair to get around. She also claimed her daughter needed a feeding tube and was suffering from vision impairments, epilepsy, and many other disorders and illnesses.
Dee Dee also convinced many doctors to perform surgeries on Gypsy, all of which she did not need. The reason that she was able to convince medical professionals that Gypsy was sick was more than likely due to her experience as a nurse's aid, meaning she knew which terms to use, which symptoms to claim Gypsy had, and even which medications to prescribe to make Gypsy's body react in a certain way.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard Is Telling Her Story In Hopes Of Helping Others
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Now that she is a free woman, Gypsy Rose just "want[s] to share my story," she told Entertainment Tonight. "I want to be a voice for the voiceless. I want to come out and tell people this is who I am, this is why I'm doing this," she continued, adding, "It's important to me. It's close to my heart," referring to those who are victims of Munchausen by proxy syndrome.
"I want to share [my story] with others" because for those who are out there watching, "They know that they're not alone because when I was living with my mother, I felt very alone," she told the outlet.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is telling her story in Lifetime's new docuseries ''Prison Confessions of Gypsy-Rose Blanchard' which is available to stream on Hulu.