Gypsy Rose Blanchard has one big regret in her life — murdering her mother. For those who don’t know her story, Gypsy Rose has been in prison for the past eight years after conspiring with her then-boyfriend, Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn, to kill mom Dee Dee Blanchard.
Her murder is believed to have come after Dee Dee inflicted years of abuse on her daughter due to Munchausen by proxy, a rare disorder in which a guardian exaggerates or induces illness in a child for attention and sympathy.
When Gypsy Rose turned 7 years old, Dee Dee claimed her child already had several illnesses – including muscular dystrophy, which supposedly required her to be in a wheelchair.
She then went through getting feeding tubes put in place and a Leukemia diagnosis, leading Dee Dee to shave Gypsy Rose’s hair.
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