Gypsy Rose Blanchard Details Shooting Mom With BB Gun

Almost a 12 months after her launch from jail, 33-year-old Gypsy Rose Blanchard, launched her memoir, “My Time to Stand.” The e-book delves into the alleged abuse she claims to have endured rising up beneath the management of her late mom, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.

The “Life After Lockup” star beforehand stated that writing the memoir gave her a chance to “study” her “life, actions, and relationships in nice breadth and depth,” as she mirrored on her previous and put her recollections to paper.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard additionally acknowledged taking numerous measures of self-protection main as much as her mom’s dying in 2015.

Gypsy reportedly tried to run away a number of instances throughout her childhood and teenage years. Nevertheless, Dee Dee maintained tight management over her, using lies, manipulation, and medical abuse to maintain Gypsy depending on her.

“I used to be 23 and had tried to run away twice,” Gypsy revealed in her memoir. “I’d shot her with a BB gun. I used to be getting older and far more durable to manage.”

She defined that her mom—whom she has accused of subjecting her to Munchausen syndrome by proxy—continued to tighten her management over her life. “She’d chained me to the bed,” Gypsy continued to elucidate in her e-book. “The older I acquired, the extra bodily and harsher her punishments turned. She stopped letting me use my custom-made Jazzy HD energy wheelchair as a result of she couldn’t management it. I sensed she was turning into extra erratic, extra determined.”

“She muzzled my mouth shut at nighttime, with a CPAP machine for my pretend sleep apnea,” Gypsy detailed. “It was so disagreeable to sleep that method; it felt like somebody was taking a bicycle tire pump and forcing a ceaseless stream of air up my nostril. She numbed my mouth with Orajel, so I’d drool and slur; she was liable for my tooth falling out as a result of unwanted side effects of superfluous medicines.”

In 2015, Gypsy, alongside along with her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn, planned and carried out the murder of her mother. “I went to the lavatory, sat on the ground and lined my ears. Besides I heard. I heard every thing,” she wrote in her e-book. “Nick entered the room soundlessly as a result of there was no bed room door, so when she lastly wakened it will need to have been as a result of he was standing over her, not due to any noise. She was startled.”

“I simply heard the screaming,” she added. “After which I lay within the fetal place with my palms pressed exhausting over my ears. However I might nonetheless hear issues.”

Arrest data point out that Dee Dee was stabbed 17 instances within the again whereas she slept. The data additionally reveal that following the assault in Gypsy’s room, Gypsy and Godejohn stole greater than $4,400 from the home. The couple then checked right into a motel exterior Springfield, Missouri, the place the homicide occurred, to find out their subsequent steps.

The police finally caught Gypsy after a surprising publish appeared on Dee Dee’s Fb web page that learn, “That B-tch is lifeless!” Initially, a lot of Dee Dee’s associates and followers assumed her account had been hacked. “What’s going on?” one remark learn as one other wrote, “WHAT?!!! Did your FB get hacked? I’ve by no means heard you discuss like that.”

After being notified, officers carried out a welfare examine and located Dee Dee’s physique inside the house. Proof recommended Dee Dee had been lifeless for a number of days.

Investigators shortly traced the Fb publish to an IP deal with in Huge Bend, Wisconsin. Additionally they uncovered proof that Gypsy and Godejohn had been speaking on-line for years and had just lately deliberate the homicide by means of textual content messages.

Police tracked Gypsy and Godejohn to Godejohn’s residence in Wisconsin, the place each have been taken into custody. Investigators have been initially shocked to find that Gypsy was in good well being, as Dee Dee had falsely offered her as severely sick and bodily disabled. Godejohn was arrested and charged with first-degree homicide.

Throughout her trial, she testified that she noticed homicide as her solely solution to escape, as her prior makes an attempt to run away or search assist had been unsuccessful. She detailed how she and Godejohn coordinated the plan by means of textual content messages, which investigators later recovered as proof.

She finally pleaded responsible to second-degree homicide in reference to the crime, whereas her then-boyfriend, Godejohn, was charged with first-degree homicide and is at the moment serving a life sentence.