Gypsy Rose Blanchard Learned The ‘Simplest’ Things At 32

Gypsy Rose Blanchard spent most of her early maturity behind bars, as she was serving a 10-year sentence for her involvement in her mom’s homicide.

After being launched on parole in December 2023, Gypsy is now attempting to navigate on a regular basis life, together with the “easiest” issues, comparable to cooking and driving a motorbike on the age of 32.

The plan got here after Gypsy’s mother, Clauddine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard, had satisfied everybody that Gypsy was severely unwell and disabled when, in reality, she was not, that means she is believed to be a sufferer of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

She was 25 when she was sentenced and was not launched till after she turned 32, that means there are lots of “firsts” Gypsy is starting to be taught.

The Blast had beforehand reported that Gypsy Rose Blanchard stepped on the sand for the primary time earlier this 12 months when filming her upcoming docuseries, “Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up.” Now, she has revealed she by no means discovered different issues a 32-year-old ought to know easy methods to do, comparable to easy methods to prepare dinner or drive, till she was launched on parole.

“You’ll see within the present that I don’t know easy methods to prepare dinner. I don’t know easy methods to drive. There are such a lot of issues that somebody of my age ought to know easy methods to do, and I’m not again from that,” she advised The Hollywood Reporter. “So I’m simply studying that at 32 years previous. Even the best of stuff was new to me and a problem. So it’s type of like, ‘OK, how do you employ the laptop computer? How do you do that?'”

The documentary preview additionally features a clip of Gypsy studying to trip a motorbike along with her dad.

With so many issues to see and do now that she is adjusting to her on a regular basis life, Gypsy Rose Blanchard says that getting her driver’s license is on the high of her bucket record.

“I’m actively engaged on attempting to get my driver’s license,” she advised The Hollywood Reporter. “I took one driver’s ed class, after which I didn’t return as a result of I used to be too overwhelmed. There was so much to be taught. I’m like, I don’t even know the anatomy of a automotive, and also you’re giving me the breakdown of what to not do. In order that’s one thing that I’m actively engaged on.”

Her “new chapter” features a “new look, a brand new me, new fashion, new every thing.”

“So I feel that displaying folks and taking them on that journey with me was essential for me since you get little bits and items of what my life has been like within the final 5 months from articles on-line, TikTok movies, social media, little bits right here and there,” she defined. “However nobody will get to truly be within the room with me apart from my household.”

The ex-convict added why she determined to have Lifetime inform her story post-prison.

“Having the cameras observe me principally every day reveals the occasions that individuals had been listening to about all this time, however they don’t know what all was stated. This positively brings the viewers alongside in a really intimate manner,” she stated of the undertaking. “And for me that was essential to indicate, no, that is who I’m.”

“It was crucial to me [to do the second docuseries] as a result of once we had been engaged on ‘Jail Confessions,’ I had been so open and trustworthy and uncooked about what jail life was like for me,” she additional defined. “And so I used to be sitting in my jail cell on the finish of December, and I used to be like, I’m so uninterested in all these jail labels and all these labels that individuals placed on me, and I wish to present that I’m greater than that.”

“Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up” will air on Lifetime on June 3.