Gypsy-Rose Blanchard is opening up concerning the “ultimate straw” that led to her mom’s homicide in her new memoir, My Time to Stand, which is launched as we speak, Tuesday, December 10.
Blanchard served seven years for her function within the 2015 stabbing demise of her mom, Dee Dee. Her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, killed Dee Dee on June 9, 2015. Godejohn was sentenced to life in jail with out the opportunity of parole plus a further 25 years for armed felony motion; Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in jail for second-degree homicide.
Rising up, Blanchard was a sufferer of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a dysfunction the place a guardian or guardian both makes up faux signs or causes actual signs to make it appear to be the kid is sick.
In an excerpt from the memoir shared with Individuals, Blanchard particulars what led to her taking her mom’s life. She claimed the “ultimate straw” got here a month earlier than the homicide when her mom “tried to chop” her throat as a result of her voice all of a sudden grew to become “high-pitched.”
Blanchard stated she pleaded together with her mom that there was nothing mistaken together with her voice, however Dee Dee took her to a pulmonologist, who advised “exploratory surgical procedure of her larynx.”
The Lifetime actuality star revealed she’d already tried to run away twice by this level in her life and had shot her mother with a “BB gun” after Dee Dee allegedly “chained” Blanchard to the mattress as a result of she was getting “more durable to manage” as she bought older.
Blanchard known as the surgical procedure on her voice field “utterly pointless,” and it made her “really” worry for the “scope of [her mom’s] malice.”
Previous to the deliberate voice field surgical procedure, Blanchard stated her mother would “muzzle” her mouth shut at evening with a CPAP machine “for my faux sleep apnea” and “numbed” her mouth with Orajel, “so I’d drool and slur.” She additionally blamed Dee Dee for her enamel falling out “attributable to unwanted effects of superfluous medicines.”
“By talking for me and scripting my each interplay, she disadvantaged me of discovering my very own voice. Now, the way in which I noticed it, my literal voice, squeaky because it is perhaps, could possibly be taken from me. Her ultimate play,” Blanchard wrote.
Blanchard was launched from jail in December 2023 and documented her life post-jail within the Lifetime docuseries Life After Lockup. Following her launch, she filed for divorce from her estranged husband, Ryan Anderson, and rekindled her romance with former flame Ken Urker. She and Urker predict a child lady in January.
Talking about her memoir, which was co-authored by Melissa Moore and Michele Matrisciani, Blanchard advised Individuals, “It brings me loads of pleasure and pleasure to have this thrilling second,” including, “It’s annoying. You need to do your story [justice], you need to inform it with as a lot honesty and vulnerability as doable. So it was fairly a rollercoaster journey.”