Gypsy Rose Blanchard tells her story

Easily the nation’s most notable parolee, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, 32, was released Dec. 28 having served eight years of her 10-year sentence for matricide.

With a book, People cover story, TV appearances and 9 million followers on Tik Tok, Blanchard is telling — in her own voice — her terrible story in Lifetime’s “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.”

In 2016 Gypsy pled guilty to second-degree murder for conspiring with her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to kill her mother. While Gypsy stayed in the bathroom, Nick stabbed her single mother Dee Dee 17 times.

Subsequently, it was revealed that since childhood Gypsy was the victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. It’s a very rare psychological disorder where Dee Dee sought attention – and loot like a free trip to Disneyland or a Habitat for Humanity house – for made-up symptoms.

Gypsy’s childhood was a virtually nonstop procession of imaginary illnesses, from being wheelchair bound to multiple medical interventions.

Her story was dramatized in the 2017 HBO movie “Mommy Dead and Dearest” and Hulu’s 2019 series “The Act.”

While Gypsy Rose is paroled, Godejohn, autistic with a history of mental illness, is behind bars for life. In jail in 2022 Gypsy married Ryan Anderson, a special education teacher. The two, along with the series’ executive producer Melissa Moore, held a virtual press conference last week.

“I see myself today as someone who has come out of prison, started her new life,” Blanchard said. “I know I’ve been branded and I want to reinvent myself into something my family, my husband can be proud of. I like this new version of myself.

“I’ve wanted to put out something that was accurate, the truth,” she noted of the Lifetime series. “So much that’s out there is by people who didn’t know the ins and outs of my case or my life. I’m the source – it happened to me. No one but me has the right to share this story.

“At this point,” she added, “I’m emotionally stable. I don’t want to be haunted by the past. This series is my letting go of my past.”

Moore, who co-authored with Blanchard the new E-book, “Released: Conversations on The Eve of Freedom,” has been involved with Blanchard since 2017.

They bonded over shared trauma. “My father is serving multiple sentences for murder,” Moore revealed. “There was no judgement. We had an open book rapport with each other. We both understand how it is to live a unique and dark past.”

Prison visits gave Moore the basis for the book. “Thankfully the prison was accommodating. I had an hour at a time with Gypsy. You can’t bring in a cellphone or have any way to track your time. You have to be on you’re game. We did three in-prison visits and recorded phone calls every Tuesday.”

“The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard” airs all 6 episodes, beginning at 10 a.m. on Lifetime Sunday. It is also on the Lifetime app and mylifetime.com until Feb. 6.

Dee Dee Blanchard and Gypsy Rose Blanchard in their home. (Photo obtained by the New York Daily News)

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