Gypsy Rose Blanchard Can’t Contact Ex Who Killed Mom as Condition of Parole: 'I Feel Responsible'

Gypsy Rose Blanchard was granted parole in September after serving eight years for her role in the murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard

As a condition of her parole, Gypsy Rose Blanchard can’t have any contact with her ex-boyfriend who killed her mother and is serving a life sentence in prison for the crime.

“A condition of my parole is that I cannot have any contact with him, and I don't want contact,” Gypsy told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview prior to her release. “I feel responsible for putting him in this situation. However, the acts [to] commit murder was on him as well. I mean, everybody has a choice, and he went through with his, and so he's paying his sentence. I paid mine, and that's my thoughts on it.”

Gypsy served eight years in prison for the murder of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard, with then-boyfriend Nicholas "Nick" Godejohn.

The former couple plotted to kill Dee Dee after she subjected Gypsy to years of unnecessary medical treatments and convinced her daughter and others that the now 32-year-old had a litany of illnesses as a child.

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It was later argued in court that Gypsy was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a form of child abuse that involves a guardian exaggerating or inducing illness to gain sympathy.

Gypsy and Godejohn met online and eventually had their first in-person date at the movies in 2015. Their second in-person meeting was that June, when Godejohn traveled from Wisconsin to Missouri to kill Dee Dee.

Gypsy said in Mommy Dead and Dearest, a 2017 HBO documentary about the case, that on the night of the murder, she and Dee Dee gave each other manicures and Gypsy put Dee Dee to bed, promising to be "a good girl." After Dee Dee fell asleep, Godejohn entered the residence, Gypsy recalled, and Gypsy hid in a bathroom while Godejohn stabbed Dee Dee to death.

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In 2018, Gypsy told the court that two weeks before her mother’s murder, she changed her mind because she “started having doubt [and] second thoughts.” But after the pair got into an argument days later, Gypsy decided she wanted Dee Dee to die and told Godejohn to travel from Wisconsin to Missouri to kill her, Gypsy said in court, according to The Springfield News-Leader.

When asked who talked who into killing Dee Dee, Gypsy responded in court, “I did, I talked him into it,” the paper reported.

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Gypsy pleaded guilty in 2016 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.  Godejohn, 32, was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2019 following his trial conviction for first-degree murder.

In July 2019, Godejohn gave a rare interview from prison and appeared on the Oxygen special Gypsy Rose & Nick: A Love to Kill. In a clip from the interview, Godejohn recalled his relationship with Gypsy, calling it “the best days of my life.”

“From the very beginning, I just knew we were soulmates,” he continued. “Those five days when I was actually with her, physically with her, those five days were the most intense, and magical, and awe-inspiring days I’ve ever had.”

Godejohn said in the interview that he felt killing Dee Dee was imperative to ensuring he and Gypsy could spend their lives together.

“Somehow I just knew, deep within my heart, some way me and her would end up being together in the end. There’s no other option, we gotta do it,” he said, referring to the murder. “I wanted to make sure her mom was not going to harm her anymore. I made sure of that.”

In 2022, while she was in prison, Gypsy married Ryan Scott Anderson, a Louisiana special education teacher.

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The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a six-hour special offering unprecedented access to the most popular victim of Munchausen by Proxy, premieres Jan. 5 on Lifetime at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

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