Gypsy Rose Blanchard has revealed what happened the night she murdered her mum and her final words before her death.
Gypsy, now 33, was 23 when she instructed her boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to stab her mother, Clauddine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard to death.
Dee Dee shaved Gypsy’s head, forced her into a wheelchair, had some of her teeth removed and paraded her at charitable events as a sickly child.
She had endured years of abuse from her mother, who falsely claimed she suffered from an array of illnesses including leukemia and muscular dystrophy.
‘I can honestly say I would have never committed that crime had I not been pushed to the brink, where I really just snapped,’ Gypsy told Nine’s 60 Minutes on Sunday night.
Gypsy revealed her last words to her mother were ‘I love you’.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard (pictured) has revealed what happened the night she murdered her mum and her final words before her death
Gypsy, now 33, was 23 when she instructed her boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to stab her mother, Clauddine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard to death
She admitted she was desperate to ‘be free’ and had tried ‘to exhaust all the options that I thought was available to me.’
‘I could [hear her] and in that moment, I wanted to help her. But I was almost paralysed in my skin,’ Gypsy continued.
‘I don’t think people understand the emotional hold that an abuser has on their victims,’ she said.
In July 2015, Godejohn stabbed Dee Dee 14 times in her bedroom in the family home in Springfield, Missouri.
He and Gypsy were promptly arrested and both were sentenced to various prison terms in the following years.
Godejohn remains behind bars serving a life sentence whereas Gypsy was released on December 28, 2023.
She has since found love with Ken Urker – a pen pal from her time in prison – and they recently welcomed their daughter, Aurora.
Gypsy admitted she will be open with her daughter when she is older about what happened to her grandmother.
Gypsy endured years of abuse from her mother, who falsely claimed she suffered from an array of illnesses including leukemia and muscular dystrophy
Gypsy has found love with Ken Urker – a pen pal from her time in prison – and they recently welcomed their daughter Aurora
‘I will always be honest with her,’ she said.
‘My will to be a better mother than what my mother was is so strong that I’m not going to continue the cycle.’
In a 2019 jail interview, Godejohn – who is autistic and had prior offences for indecent exposure at the time of his 2015 arrest – said he wished he had never carried out the killing.
‘If I had to change anything at all, of course, one of the obvious ones is that I would’ve ran away with Gypsy. I don’t want to be staying with a murder on my hands.
‘Being labelled as a killer … I don’t want to stay with that, but I’ll live with it.
‘I want to let everyone know that I’m not this cold killer that doesn’t have any feelings. I’m a human being.
‘Human beings make mistakes’ he told Oxygen in a documentary.
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