Joey King, Who Portrayed Gypsy Rose Blanchard in “The Act”, Is Happy for Her Upon Prison Release

Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released on Dec. 28 after spending more than eight years in prison

Actress Joey King, who once played Gypsy Rose Blanchard on Hulu’s The Act, has spoken up for the first time since Gypsy was released from prison.

King says she is very happy for Gypsy, the Munchausen by proxy victim who was granted parole in 2023 after she killed her abusive mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, in 2015.

Since her release, Gypsy has made several high-profile media appearances, including on Good Morning America and The View. Her story has been the subject of multiple documentaries, as well as The Act, a scripted series that aired in 2019, featuring King and Patricia Arquette, who played Dee Dee.

King, who was reached while out on a hike with her mother, says she doesn’t currently have plans to meet Gypsy, but left the door open.

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Arquette also spoke out about Gypsy’s release, telling PEOPLE she hopes people are gentle with the recent parolee.

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"She's all grown up and she's been through a lot. And there's a weird thing of art imitating life and then the reality," Arquette said.

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Gypsy served eight years in prison after pleading guilty to the murder of Dee Dee in 2015, for which she was sentenced to 10 years. Gypsy’s then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, was convicted of murder in 2019, was sentenced to life in prison. The couple plotted to kill Dee Dee as Gypsy sought to escape her mother’s abuse.

Dee Dee, who had convinced people in her life that her daughter was terminally ill, is believed to have subjected Gypsy to painful unnecessary medical treatments.

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Gypsy married her husband, Ryan Scott Anderson, a special education teacher from Louisiana, behind bars in 2022.

King was praised for her work in The Act, earning Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Since then she has starred in the popular Kissing Booth films.

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