Gypsy Rose Blanchard is resetting as he continues to adjust to life outside of prison. The 32-year-old was released from the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri in December, having served nearly eight years for her role in her mother's murder. Almost immediately after her release, Blanchard became the internet's latest obsession, fueled by her off-the-cuff comments defending her husband, Ryan Anderson, against trolls on Instagram. She recently announced she was taking a step back from social media, but returned to Facebook to announce her split from Anderson.
“People were asking what was going on in my life. “Unfortunately my husband and I are going through a divorce and I have moved with my parents to the house down by the bay,” Blanchard explained in the post. “I have the support of my family and friends to help guide me through this. I am learning to listen to my heart. Right now I need time to let myself find… who I am.”
Blanchard and Anderson married in 2022 while she was still in prison. Earlier this year, in an interview with 20/20, addressed the intimate nature of her social media content about their relationship, stating, “Well, I'm a newlywed. I'm newly married and just out, so I'm living my best married life with my husband. I don't think it's any different than any other wife.”
Blanchard's Instagram has been deleted, as has her TikTok account. Her Facebook page is also private. The decision to step away from the spotlight brought on by her release, she said at the time, was prompted by her father's guidance. “That guidance was to show me that real life is something you can touch, something you can feel, people you can actually hug,” she said. “And with public scrutiny as bad as it is, I just don't want to live my life under a microscope.”
Blanchard's father, Rod Blanchard, divorced her mother before she was born and has been estranged from his daughter since she turned 10. “I think Dee Dee's problem was that she started a web of lies and there was no escaping it,” Rod said. BuzzFeed News in 2016 for Blanchard's mother. “It enveloped her so much, it was like a tornado started and then once she was so deep there was no escape. A lie had to cover another lie, had to cover another lie and that was her way of life.”
Blanchard was physically and emotionally abused by her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, for most of her life. Experts believed she suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental disorder in which caregivers cause or lie about the illness to others. According to legal testimony, Dee Dee raised Blanchard to believe she was physically disabled and mentally ill. Wanting to escape her mother's control over her, Blanchard conspired with her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to murder Dee Dee and then escape together to Wisconsin.
“I'm doing my best to live my authentic life and what's real to me, and what's not real is social media. Social media is literally a doorway to hell. It's so crazy,” Blanchard shared when she announced she would no longer be online. “I can't even wrap my head around what social media is. I thought that once I got out of prison, I would go out and enjoy social media like the next person, taking selfies and being silly. It's the simple things in life, right?'
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