Gypsy Rose Blanchard Reveals Cellmate’s Disturbing Obsession

In this candid book, Gypsy revisits the horrific abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother Dee Dee, whose Munchausen surrogate kept her trapped in a fabricated life of disease and control. That’s what it means. Ex-Criminal delves into the fateful night Dee Dee was killed, the events that led to her incarceration, and the complexities of her journey toward freedom.

In this memoir, Gypsy Rose Blanchard shares her story like never before, giving readers an intimate look at her past and the resilience that has gotten her to where she is today.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard spent her first year incarcerated in the Greene County Jail, Missouri, enduring harsh and difficult conditions. “County jails were vile places: dirty and crowded, the food was expired and poisonous, and the people were cruel, no matter what class they were,” she explained in her book. “My roommates were coming and going. I didn’t know what the naked woman was going to do next.”

Now 33 years old, she talked about her memorable cellmates from her time in prison. Some howled at the moon, others talked to walls, and others hit their own heads over and over again while muttering curses. But she remembers one inmate who outdid them all. She was a woman who “liked playing with her own poop,” Blanchard said.

Gypsy added: “When you’re under this type of surveillance, you’re not allowed to leave your cell. You’re given less than an hour of break time in the garden. You’re only allowed a 10-minute phone call and one phone call a day. I just took a shower,” he added. So for almost the whole day I had to watch my naked roommate take pleasure in seeing her excrement, guys. ”

It got so bad that Gypsy “had to bribe her to stop, promising she wouldn’t remember it because the stench had thrown her out.” . “When you think about it, this whole scene was unfair,” she added. “Some of these people were already missing, but it was hard to believe that they had the awareness to commit a crime.”

“For four months I was scared, confused, and trapped like this,” she writes in the book. “For several days, I wondered whether I should use the smock. I carefully searched for a place high enough to tie the smock, such as on the wall, around the bunk bed, or on the ceiling.”

She was then transferred to the Chillicothe Correctional Center, known for its less severe punishment, where she served eight years of her 10-year sentence.

My Time to Stand by Gypsy Rose Blanchard, co-authored with Melissa Moore and Michele Matriciani, was released by Benbella Books on December 10th. [justice]” she said people magazine, Reflecting on her writing process. “You want to be as honest and vulnerable as possible. So it’s been quite a roller coaster journey.”

“It brought up a lot of emotions, so I took it to a therapist,” she admitted. “I had to reopen the wound, go back to treatment, and heal again.”

But after a while, she came to the following conclusion: How I think, how I react to things, how I make decisions, everything is based on what I have learned from the past. ”

Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s childhood was marked by manipulation, medical abuse, and isolation, largely orchestrated by her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard.

Born on July 27, 1991 in Golden Meadow, Louisiana, Gypsy was exposed to fabricated medical stories from an early age. Dee Dee claimed that Gypsy was physically healthy but suffered from serious illnesses, including leukemia, muscular dystrophy and epilepsy, among others.

Dee Dee controlled every aspect of Gypsy’s life, putting her in a wheelchair, shaving her head to mimic the appearance of a chemotherapy patient, and subjecting her to unnecessary treatments such as surgeries and medications. Gypsies were home-schooled for most of their lives, becoming even more isolated from their peers and the outside world. This control extended to Gypsies’ eating, socializing, and even their ability to speak for themselves during doctor’s visits.

Over time, Gypsy realized that she was not as sick as her mother claimed. This realization, combined with years of psychological and emotional abuse, set the stage for the tragic events that would later unfold in her life.

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