Gypsy-Rose Blanchard is making some shocking claims in regards to the manufacturing of Hulu’s The Act six years after its launch.
“There’s so much behind The Act that no one talked about,” Blanchard claimed on the Monday, June 30, episode of Tori Spelling‘s misSPELLING podcast. “Primarily, Hulu and the producers stole my story and made an enormous profitable present out of it. Didn’t pay me life rights. Didn’t come to speak to me. Didn’t have any conversations to know what was correct, what was not correct.”
She continued, “To this present day, lots of people are like, they’ll go off of the occasions that they’ve seen and the small print that they’ve seen on The Act. And they’re incorrect as a result of it was filler. It was crammed in by producers.”
The Act adopted the real-life story of Gypsy-Rose, who suffered abuse attributable to Munchausen syndrome by proxy from her mom, Dee Dee Blanchard. The mother-daughter duo’s poisonous relationship resulted in Gypsy-Rose’s then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, murdering Dee Dee in 2015. Godejohn obtained a life sentence for the crime, whereas Gypsy-Rose was sentenced to 10 years for second-degree homicide.
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She served eight years of her sentence earlier than being launched on parole in 2023. Gypsy-Rose accomplished her parole final yr and has since welcomed her daughter, Aurora, along with her boyfriend, Ken Urker.
On the podcast, Gypsy-Rose recalled expressing her disapproval of the present whereas serving time behind bars. “[I was like,] ‘I don’t help this. That is flawed. You’re taking a tragic occasion and you’re Hollywood-ing it on up,’” she defined. “And now folks, after they write me, they’re confused as a result of they don’t know truth from fiction.”
Gypsy-Rose stated that as a substitute of The Act, she recommends folks watch the 2017 HBO documentary Mommy Lifeless and Dearest. “One is factual, and one is Hollywood,” she said.
Regardless of the inaccuracies Gypsy-Rose seen in The Act — comparable to herself proudly owning guinea pigs as a substitute of cats — she applauded Joey King‘s portrayal of herself, regardless that the actress was allegedly prohibited from visiting Gypsy-Rose in jail.
“I believe Joey King did an incredible job enjoying me,” she shared. “I even DMed her final February — January, February — and I instructed her, ‘Congratulations. I believe you bought my stamp of approval. You probably did a beautiful job.’”
In keeping with Gypsy-Rose, King stated “that she hoped that she portrayed me to the fullest extent, that she hopes it met my approval.” She added, “It was an enormous endeavor, however it was an ideal alternate. I actually recognize her braveness for taking over such a posh function and story.”
King’s efficiency in The Act earned the actress Critics’ Selection, Emmy, and Golden Globe nominations in 2019. Her costar Patricia Arquette, in the meantime, scored Emmy and Golden Globe wins for her portrayal of Dee Dee.