Gypsy Rose Blanchard reveals she was once locked in solitary confinement — because of a fan

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Convict-turned-influencer Gypsy Rose Blanchard reveals her abusive past and time in prison via letters, phone transcripts and photos in her new e-book, “Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom,” out Tuesday.The 32-year-old — who was released from a Missouri prison on Dec.

28 after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence for her role in the murder of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, in 2015 — details alleged abuse by her mother and grandfather but says she is remorseful for her crime.Blanchard also reveals a battle with opioid addiction while in prison — and claims she served a stint in solitary confinement after a super fan wanted to break her out.“I want you to know that I know now you were mentally and emotionally unstable when raising me,” Blanchard says in an open letter to her mother, written from Chillicothe Correctional Facility in Missouri. “Fear, manipulation and isolation were all I knew of your kind of ‘love.’” In the book, written with Melissa Moore, who interviewed Blanchard while she was in prison, and Michele Matrisciani, Blanchard recalls undergoing unnecessary surgical procedures as a result of her mother’s Munchausen by Proxy, in which a parent imagines or makes up a medical disorder for their child to get sympathy.

As a girl, Blanchard was confined to a wheelchair despite being able to walk, force-fed medications that “left my body marked with scars both physical and emotional,” and had her head shaved to fool the world into thinking she was sick with leukemia, muscular dystrophy and other illnesses.

Dee Dee, she writes, told her for years that she was terminally ill and had the mental capacity of a young child, depriving her of an education beyond first grade.