Gypsy Rose Blanchard is free, reflects on prison term for conspiring to kill her abusive mother
by Heather Hollingsworth
Jan 02, 2024
3 minutes
Gypsy Rose Blanchard said she has found a way to forgive her mother — and herself. But it has been a long journey from years of abuse and the darkest parts of her life splashed across tabloids to living in prison.
Blanchard, now 32, was paroled last week from a Missouri women's prison. Her release came 8 1/2 years after she persuaded her boyfriend at the time to kill her abusive mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard — in a desperate bid to be free of her.
For years, her mother forced her to pretend that she
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