Gypsy-Rose Blanchard opens up about her life behind bars in her new memoir, My Time to Stand, together with particulars of a cellmate who loved taking part in together with her personal feces.
As reported by Individuals, Blanchard writes within the e-book about her 12 months in Missouri’s Greene County Jail earlier than she was later moved to the state’s Chillicothe Correctional Middle. She describes the county jail as “a despicable place,” noting “it was soiled and crowded, the meals was expired and poisonous, and the individuals have been ruthless.”
Blanchard served seven years for her position within the 2015 stabbing loss of life of her mom, Dee Dee. Her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, killed Dee Dee on June 9, 2015. Godejohn was sentenced to life in jail, whereas Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in jail for second-degree homicide.
Detailing her time in county jail, Blanchard says “roommates got here and went” earlier than itemizing a few of the most notable ladies she shared a cell with, together with one who howled on the moon, one who talked to the wall, and one who’d hit her personal head whereas cursing to herself.
Nevertheless, the worst, in keeping with Blanchard, was an inmate who “preferred to play in her personal poop.”
“When you’re beneath any such watch, you don’t go away the cell. There isn’t even one hour of rec time in a yard. We solely have been allowed one ten-minute telephone name a day and one bathe,” she writes. “So, just about all day lengthy, I used to be compelled to observe my bare roommate enjoyment of her excrement. As if it have been Play-Doh, y’all.”
The scenario received so dangerous that Blanchard says she needed to step in, writing, “One time I needed to bribe her to cease, promising I don’t keep in mind what, as a result of the stench made me hurl… the entire scene, upon reflection, was unjust. A few of these individuals have been up to now gone, it was onerous to consider they have been cognizant sufficient to commit any crime.”
Rising up, Blanchard was a sufferer of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a dysfunction the place a father or mother or guardian both makes up pretend signs or causes actual signs to make it appear like the kid is sick.
In her new memoir, the Lifetime actuality star additionally shares particulars relating to her mom’s loss of life and the “closing straw” that led to her determination to help in her homicide.
Following her launch from jail in December 2023, Blanchard filed for divorce from her estranged husband, Ryan Anderson, and rekindled her romance with former flame Ken Urker. She and Urker are anticipating a child lady in January.