Sign that tipped off Gypsy-Rose Blanchard to mom’s lies, ex-con claims

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from muscular dystrophy to leukemia. She fed her daughter medications which had horrible side effects.A feeding tube was also inserted into her, and she was forced to use a wheelchair.“I knew that I could walk.

I knew that I could eat, so I didn’t need the feeding tube,” Blanchard told 60 Minutes during a tell-all interview in Sunday’s episode.“But the other things like cancer, you can’t see that.

So I had believed that I had cancer up until the time that I was arrested and could talk to my lawyer.“By the end of it all, there was not a single part of my body that didn’t have something supposedly wrong with it.”After Blanchard’s true story came to light, it soon became clear that Claudine had Munchausen syndrome By Proxy.The condition, now known as Fabricated of Induced Illness by Carers, is when someone fakes an illness or produces illness in someone else, according to Better Health Victoria.It’s considered to be a form of child abuse and, in Australia, is rare with 15 to 24 cases of it each year.Due to Blanchard’s alleged illnesses, the family received assistance from charities.’Due to Blanchard alleged illnesses, the family received assistance from charities.Blanchard said she tried to do everything she could to get out from under her mother’s thumb, claiming she “tried to exhaust” all the options she believed she had.Until she met Nicholas Godejohn through the internet in 2013.Blanchard hatched a plot to kill Claudine, and Godejohn was happy to help.It took two years for the pair to finally enact it.Before her murder, Blanchard recalled saying “I love you” to her mother, and giving her a hug.She recalled holding her mother’s pillow and crying, apologizing over and over again as a way to say goodbye.Blanchard let her.