Gypsy Rose Blanchard is telling her tale. The mom to be is on the cusp of releasing her new memoir My Time to Stand, one year after being released from prison.
In the new book, she’s opening up about what her “last straw” was before conspiring to murder her mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, with then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn. Related: Matt Rife Finally Addresses Plastic Surgery Rumors In an extended excerpt from the new memoir obtained by People on Monday, the 33-year-old reflects on all the lasting trauma her mother inflicted upon her.
From “unnecessary surgeries and medications” to the emotional turmoil Dee Dee’s callous words had on her — all stemming from being the victim of Munchausen by proxy.
But everything came to a boiling point just one month before Dee Dee’s murder when Gypsy felt her mother “tried to cut [her] throat.” She explains: Gypsy goes on: You see, at that point, Gypsy was 23 years old and no longer under her mom’s spell — she knew something was up and she tried to claw her way out from under Dee Dee’s thumb.
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