‘The Act’ star Joey King reacts to Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s prison release: ‘She deserves freedom’

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Blanchard well on her release from prison.“I’m so happy that she’s released,” King, 24, told Entertainment Tonight. “I’m so happy for her,” she said. “She deserves freedom.”Blanchard, 32, was sprung from prison last month after serving nearly all of her 10-year prison sentence for conjuring up a plan with her then-boyfriend, Nick Godejohn, to kill her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, in 2015.She pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016.

Godejohn, 32, is serving a life sentence at Potosi Correctional Center in Missouri.Dee Dee Blanchard was believed to have abused Gypsy Rose for years due to Munchausen by proxy, a rare disorder in which someone exaggerates or induces illness in a child for attention and sympathy, according to ET.HBO made a documentary about the case, “Mommy Dead and Dearest,” in 2017, and “The Act” premiered in 2019, with King as Gypsy Rose and Patricia Arquette as Dee Dee Blanchard.Arquette won a 2020 Emmy and Golden Globe for the role; King was nominated at both awards ceremonies but fell short of claiming a statuette.Gypsy Rose, who’s telling her story in the Lifetime docuseries “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard,” told Entertainment Tonight she has no plans to watch “The Act.”“I lived it,” she said. “For me, looking for things that weren’t correct or that were inaccurate, that’s neither here nor there.”Godejohn said in a 2019 interview featured on the Oxygen special, “Gypsy Rose & Nick: A Love to Kill,” that he felt it was imperative to kill Dee Dee.“Somehow I just knew, deep within my heart, some way me and her would end up being together in the end.

There’s no other option, we gotta do it,” he said about the murder.“I wanted to make sure her mom was not going to harm her anymore.