Nicholas Godejohn’s Final Words Before His Prison Sentencing

Nicholas Godejohn was sentenced to life with out parole for his involvement within the homicide of Gypsy Rose Blanchard‘s mother. Gypsy, however, was sentenced to 10 years with eligibility for parole. She was launched in December, whereas Nicholas stays behind bars.

As The Blast beforehand reported, Gypsy is believed to be a sufferer of Munchausen by proxy as her mom, Clauddine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard, subjected her to years of faux medical prognosis and pointless surgical procedures and prescribed medicines. As she felt it was the one approach out, she and her then-boyfriend, Nicholas, plotted to homicide Dee Dee, a plan which they carried out in 2015.

Practically ten years later, Gypsy Rose Blanchard was launched on parole, and her case turned one of many largest headlines. As she continues to remain within the media, many at the moment are calling for Nicholas Godejohn’s case to go to retrial.

Dee Dee Blanchard was believed to have Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological well being dysfunction the place a caregiver fabricates or induces sickness in somebody below their care to achieve consideration or sympathy. As reported by a number of information retailers and proven within the 2017 documentary “Mommy, Useless & Dearest,” Dee Dee falsely claimed that Gypsy suffered from numerous extreme well being circumstances and disabilities, subjecting her daughter to pointless medical remedies and procedures.

The connection “was both very affectionate as a result of I used to be very submissive and obedient, or I used to be both rebellious and I’d be punished for it,” Gypsy mentioned within the docuseries. “After I’d do one thing that my mother wished me to do, we’d go to Toys ‘R’ Us, or she would purchase me a brand new gown, after which the following neatest thing was her love and affection.”

In 2012, Gypsy Rose met Nick Godejohn just about on a Christian Relationship web site, and the 2 fashioned a relationship. They communicated for practically three years earlier than they met in individual for the primary time in 2015.

Inspired by Gypsy Rose, Nicholas fatally stabbed Dee Dee on June 9, 2015, on the household’s residence in Springfield, Missouri. Godejohn acquired a life sentence with out the potential of parole, whereas Gypsy-Rose was launched on December 28 after serving eight and a half years of her ten-year sentence.

Nicholas stays behind bars.

A clip of Nicholas Godejohn awaiting his sentence is now going viral on TikTok as he expresses his remaining phrases to the decide.

“When this complete factor occurred, like I’ve mentioned it earlier than in my statements, may be very a lot the reality. So I am going to simply say it once more,” he mentioned within the courtroom. “When this complete factor occurred, all I ever actually need[ed] to be is with Blanchard. That is all I ever wished to be.”

“I by no means knew what it was wish to have a motherly love. I’ve by no means identified what it is wish to have a feminine connection. I’ve by no means identified any of that,” he continued. “None of it as a result of I’ve by no means identified it, that is a part of the rationale why I try so onerous to get it, a lot to the purpose the place I do not even perceive what it even feels wish to have a feminine connection. It is lacking. It is a lacking hyperlink. It is at all times been a lacking hyperlink, it is at all times been one.”

“And that is the rationale why after I received so deep into this example, the place I fell in love so deeply,” Nicholas informed the decide. “Did not you say ‘love is blind?’ I’ve at all times mentioned that [and] properly I admit it, I used to be blindly in love. That was at all times very a lot the case. It was at all times that approach. So I perceive you are a good decide. I’ve heard it a number of instances, and all I ask is […] any kind.”

Nicholas’s protection argued that Gypsy Rose had manipulated him, however the jury in the end discovered him responsible. He was sentenced to life in jail with out the potential of parole, and was convicted of first-degree homicide in November 2018.

“I felt horrible about it. When me and her have been within the resort room … she [Gypsy] saved on telling me, ‘Cease crying, cease crying. There’s no purpose, purpose to cry. It was my concept, it wasn’t yours. I … did what I did as a result of I cherished her. I actually wished a life along with her, I actually did,” he informed ABC’s “20/20.”

When reflecting again on the night time of the homicide, Gypsy Rose mentioned she hid within the room subsequent door whereas Nicholas stabbed her mom repeatedly.

“I heard her scream as soon as, and there was extra screaming however not like the type in a horror movie. Identical to a startled scream, and he or she requested, ‘Who was it that was within the bed room?’ And he or she known as out to my identify about three or 4 instances,” Gypsy informed “20/20.” “And at that time, I wished to go assist her so dangerous, however I used to be so afraid to rise up. It is like my physique would not transfer. Then every thing simply went quiet.”

Gypsy expressed that the prospect of beginning a brand new life made her really feel each excited and overwhelmed.

“It might are available instances of happiness, little spurts of happiness, however I’d have breakdowns or I would begin crying, feeling regret, guilt, and on the similar time, additionally lacking her on the similar time, fear about what, what I’d simply performed. She’s gone,” she mentioned.