Gypsy Rose Blanchard is hitting reset as she continues to regulate to life outdoors of jail. The 32-year-old was launched from Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Middle in December, having served near eight years for her function within the homicide of her mom. Virtually instantly upon her launch, Blanchard grew to become the web’s newest fixation, spurred on by her unhinged feedback defending her husband, Ryan Anderson, towards trolls on Instagram. She just lately introduced she could be taking a step again from social media however returned to Fb to announce her separation from Anderson.
“Folks have been asking what’s going on in my life. Sadly my husband and I are going via a separation and I moved in with my mother and father residence down the bayou,” Blanchard defined within the submit. “I’ve the help of my household and buddies to assist information me via this. I’m studying to take heed to my coronary heart. Proper now I would like time to let myself discover … who I’m.”
Blanchard and Anderson married in 2022 whereas she was nonetheless in jail. Earlier this yr, in an interview with 20/20, she addressed the intimate nature of her social media content material concerning their relationship, stating: “Nicely, I’m a newlywed. I’m newly married and I simply got here out, so I’m dwelling my greatest married life with my husband. I don’t suppose that’s any completely different than every other spouse would.”
Blanchard’s Instagram has been deleted, as has her TikTok account. Her Fb web page is ready to non-public, too. The choice to step away from the highlight she was positioned below upon her launch, she mentioned on the time, was prompted by steering from her father. “That steering was to point out me that actual life is one thing you’ll be able to contact, one thing you’ll be able to really feel, individuals you’ll be able to really hug,” she mentioned. “And with the general public scrutiny as dangerous as it’s, I simply don’t wish to reside my life below a microscope.”
Blanchard’s father, Rod Blanchard, separated from her mom earlier than she was born and was estranged from his daughter from across the time she turned 10 years outdated. “I believe Dee Dee’s drawback was she began an internet of lies, and there was no escaping after,” Rod informed Buzzfeed Information in 2016 about Blanchard’s mom. “She acquired so wound up in it, it was like a twister acquired began, after which as soon as she was in so deep that there was no escaping. One lie needed to cowl one other lie, needed to cowl one other lie, and that was her lifestyle.”
Blanchard suffered bodily and emotional abuse from her mom, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, for many of her life. Specialists believed she suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological dysfunction through which caretakers induce or lie about illness in others. Based on authorized testimony, Dee Dee raised Blanchard to imagine she was bodily disabled and mentally unwell. Wanting to flee the management her mom had over her, Blanchard conspired along with her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to homicide Dee Dee after which escape to Wisconsin collectively.
“I do my greatest to reside my genuine life and what’s actual to me, and what’s not actual is social media. Social media is actually a doorway to hell. It’s so loopy,” Blanchard shared when she introduced she would not be on-line. “I can’t even wrap my head round what social media is. I believed that after I acquired out of jail, I’d come out, and I’d get pleasure from social media like the subsequent particular person, taking selfies and simply appearing goofy. It’s the straightforward stuff in life, proper?”
