Lifetime's 'Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard' airs next week. How to watch
Eight days after her release from prison, Gypsy Rose Blanchard will be on television screens across the country.
Lifetime's six-hour docuseries, "The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard" debuts Friday, Jan. 5 at 7 p.m. The docuseries is split into three two-hour episodes and will air through Sunday, Jan. 7.
The episodes will air on the Lifetime television channel and be available on streaming services in the days following. Lifetime content is available on DIRECTV Stream, Philo, Sling TV, Hulu + Live TV, Frndly TV, Vidgo, NOW TV, Xfinity Choice TV, Peacock Premium and Spectrum TV.
32-year-old Blanchard was released from the Chillicothe Correctional Center on Thursday, Dec. 28. Blanchard served eight years of her 10-year sentence for conspiring to kill her mother with her then-boyfriend Nick Godejohn in 2015. Blanchard's husband, Ryan Scott Anderson, picked her up from the prison around 3 a.m. on Thursday. The two have been married since 2022.
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For the entirety of her childhood and much of her young adulthood, Blanchard allegedly was the victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental condition in which someone makes another person ill for sympathy or gain. In Blanchard's case, this person was her mother, Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard.
Dee Dee was alleged to have made her daughter appear to have a range of physical and development ailments, including leukemia, asthma and muscular dystrophy in order to gain disability payments and gifts from charity.
Gypsy spent much of her life in a wheelchair but when she learned she could walk on her own, she sought help from Godejohn, who she met online, to escape from her mother. Godejohn traveled from Wisconsin, where he lived, to meet Gypsy and ultimately kill her mother.
On June 14, 2015, police were alerted to a post on Dee Dee's Facebook page that read, "That B*** is dead!" before Dee Dee's body was found dead in her home from multiple stab wounds. By the time Dee Dee's body was found, Gypsy and Godejohn were already in Wisconsin, where they had fled.
Following the pair's arrest, Gypsy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years for her role in the fatal stabbing of her mother. She became eligible for parole after serving 85% of her sentence.
Godejohn remains behind bars. He was sentenced to life in prison for stabbing and killing Dee Dee. He continues to fight for a new trial, claiming his initial lawyers' defense failed to properly convey his level of autism in a diminished capacity defense.
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