Gypsy Rose Blanchard Held Nothing Back In Her Reaction To Joey King's Emmy Nomination
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the young woman whose life Hulu's TV show The Act is based on, just reacted to actress Joey King's Emmy nomination.
On the show, Joey plays Gypsy, who suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
Gypsy says she "sincerely congratulates" the actress but has "ZERO interest" in meeting her.
If you’ve ever seen Hulu's The Act, you know that it’s riveting. Couple that with the fact that it’s based on the true story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother Dee Dee, and it’s straight-up jaw dropping. Apparently, the people behind the Emmys think so, too, because they recently nominated the series' star, Joey King (who plays Gypsy), for an Emmy.
And while Joey recently shared an adorable Instagram video of herself bawling and then Facetiming her mom when she found out she'd been nominated, the real Gypsy Rose wasn't as thrilled by the news.
Fancy Macelli, a spokesperson for Gypsy and her family, told TMZ that while Gypsy "sincerely congratulates" Joey on her nomination, she has "ZERO interest" in meeting her. (Joey previously told E! that she wants to meet Gypsy and that all she wanted to do is to "do right by her.")
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According to Macelli, Gypsy says that the storyline is "inaccurate" and that she thinks meeting Joey would "validate the series' narrative." Among other things, Gypsy apparently thinks the show makes her look like a nymphomaniac and doesn’t like how often the character of Dee Dee ties up the character of Gypsy in bed on the show (she says it only happened once, after she tried to escape).
In case you’re not familiar with the show, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is the victim of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard's, Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Basically, Dee Dee forced Gypsy to pretend to be physically and mentally disabled, as well as terminally ill for the majority of her childhood and young adulthood. Eventually, Gypsy had her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, murder Dee Dee, and now, they’re both serving time in jail for it.
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