Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Subject of Hulu’s The Act, Released From Prison

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Gypsy Rose Blanchard, whose story was the basis for Hulu’s The Act, was released from prison Thursday, TMZ reports.

In 2016, Blanchard received a 10-year sentence after pleading guilty to her mother’s murder. She was granted parole and scheduled an early release in September 2023.

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In addition to The Act, an eight-episode Hulu true crime series that premiered in March 2019 and starred Joey King, Blanchard’s story also was the subject of HBO’s 2017 movie Mommy Dead and Dearest.

Blanchard’s mother, Dee Dee, had Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another, an illness formerly known as Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. As a result, Dee Dee made Gypsy and their friends and family believe that the girl was sick with leukemia and muscular dystrophy, among other diseases. She also forced Gypsy to use a wheelchair, even though she didn’t need one, and had her undergo multiple unnecessary surgeries.

In June of 2015, Gypsy Blanchard arranged for her online boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, to kill her mother at home in Springfield, Mo. Gypsy and Godejohn were arrested days later.

“Nobody will ever hear me say I’m glad she’s dead or I’m proud of what I did,” Gypsy recently told People. “I regret it every single day.”

The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a Lifetime docuseries about the now 32-year-old Gypsy’s experiences, premieres Friday, Jan. 5, at 8/7c.

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