Thoughts on Gypsy Rose

This morning I saw something in social media about how Gypsy Rose is on her way to being canceled or something of that nature. I have some thoughts.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is at the height of infamy right now since being released from prison on December 28, 2023, after serving eight years for the murder of her mother; carried out by her boyfriend Nick Godejohn. Here’s a reputable news story about it, in case you’ve been off social media for the past year or so. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/28/us/gypsy-rose-blanchard-prison-release-cec/index.html

I originally heard of the story when she was arrested in 2015. They were from and living in Missouri, as was and am I. She was sent to a Missouri women’s prison. I’ve had adjacent family members who have served time with her and knew her. A few years ago, Hulu released the movie The Act based on her story: a ‘disabled’ girl raised by her single mother with Munchaschen by Proxy who had convinced Gypsy and everyone else that she was sick. This went on for years until Gypsy was in her late teens and started realizing that the medicines, the symptoms, and the illnesses themselves were all fabricated. The unnecessary surgeries and procedures were all performed by order of her mother.

She started rebelling and created private and secret internet accounts to talk to people especially boys and men; make friends; and ultimately meet Nick Godejohn on a dating website.

These are all proven facts of her case and admissions from Gypsy herself.

In getting to know one another, Nick told Gypsy he had D.I.D. (calling it multiple personality disorder due to the lack of information). He had several alters, problematic issues, and an unmedicated childhood. He was originally diagnosed as being schizophrenic but claims medication removed it leaving him with multiple personality disorder. This isn’t how it works obviously. And I don’t have the guy’s medical records in front of me to know what he was diagnosed with or what he experienced. But I do know something was going on for him to believe he has the same disorder I do and for him to receive the (possibly incorrect) diagnosis initially of schizophrenia; as have I.

Their year-long secret love affair included them meeting up in secret at a movie theater while she was with her mother. They planned to act as though they were meeting for the first time there in hopes they could make that their love story and thereby get her approval. But DeeDee (mom) found him to be creepy and weird thwarting their efforts. So, they met up in the bathroom and had sex. Yes, really.

Well, apparently that rushed first-time sexual encounter was the best thing since sliced bread and Gypsy decided that she was going to be with him no matter what. She asked him to kill her mother. He attempted to talk her out of it. He suggested other options. She was adamant though that the only way they were ever going to be together was if her mother was dead. Eventually, this mentally ill, autistic individual agreed. A persecutor alter did the deed and stabbed Gypsy’s mother to death while Gypsy herself stayed in the bathroom. They then left, Gypsy posted a vulgar status indicating DeeDee was dead on Facebook, and then fled back to his home state. They were caught 3 days later unsurprisingly.

From the beginning of their capture until today, Gypsy threw Nick under the bus and blamed it on him for her being a desperate victim. She painted this elaborate picture of how horrible her childhood had been with her mother controlling her medically. She was frail-looking; older than she appeared. She had no front teeth due to her teeth rotting from the unnecessary medications. Her hair was extremely short from her mom keeping it shaved to preserve the appearance of having cancer.

When she was released from prison almost a month ago now, she immediately became a pseudo-celebrity. She has capitalized on this to the nth degree. She got married in 2022 during her eight-year stint in prison to a middle school teacher who looks 20 years older but in reality, is only 5 years older than her. He also resembles her dearly departed mother. But that’s a Freud story for another time.

Gypsy took to social media and traditional media outlets. She’s done numerous interviews and many of her posts on TikTok or Instagram. She’s referred to her husband’s dick by saying: The D is fire in response to ‘haters’. She maintains when asked that Nick was the one responsible and that she doesn’t consider herself a “murderer”. She also stated how she invented her own alters to match the ones Nick had. Alrighty, I’d like to step in here.

Let me tell you what I have maintained all along: Gypsy wanted freedom and was PISSED that her mother wasn’t giving her any. She knew that her childhood had been bullshit and full of lies. Including all those Disney World trips, make wishes, gifts, and money. Maybe Gypsy wanted her cut and DeeDee refused her. We’ll never know if the two had a verbal altercation at some point regarding the fact that she was not disabled and could fully expose DeeDee for the Munchausen mother that she was. Maybe she was sick of being a child and wanted to be an adult and knew that couldn’t happen while living with DeeDee. Maybe she was afraid she wouldn’t be believed if she told someone. These are all valid possibilities. But what if she wasn’t nearly the victim she’s been made out to be? That’s the question I’ve asked from the beginning.

She had the cognitive ability to carry on a sordid online sexual relationship with Nick for over a year. She had the ability and know-how to create secret accounts. She had a close friend and neighbor that she discussed life with. She chose Nick because he was going to be easy to manipulate. He believed that this woman loved him and accepted him. He believed anything she told him as being God’s honest truth, including sharing the same horrid trauma disorder that she did not ever have. Everything she did and said to him was calculated. It was all part of her plan to find a target that could carry out this deed, she’d be seen as the victim, and her mother would be dead. Win-win.

And she did win, didn’t she? She spent 8 years behind bars described as being “sweet”. She was trained to be a victim by a woman who had everyone convinced, including herself, that she was one. This is not questioned. But the apple didn’t fall far from the tree either. For all the people saying that she didn’t have a choice, I vehemently disagree. Here are the other choices she could have made:

With one of her many secret accounts, she could have documented the abuse as proof; she could have sent the evidence anonymously to authorities; she could have gone to a doctor behind her mother’s back; she could have met the police at the movie theater instead; she could have confided in the friend and show her the proof. She could have tried to do anything else and she chose instead to manipulate, lie, sneak around, and continue the facade her mother began.

And since her release from prison, that’s become glaringly more evident in my opinion. She doesn’t hesitate to remind people that she didn’t commit the actual murder. People are starting now finally to question the details. If she was capable of masterminding a murder, making a vulgar post afterward, posing as an imposter; and filming her and Nick’s sexual escapades and fun before getting caught… she was capable of getting legal and moral help. If that’s what the goal was or ever had been. But it wasn’t. The goal was for freedom by any and all means necessary without losing her ability to be seen as a victim… and continue the facade for attention, fame, and money.

Nick Godejohn, by the way, received a life sentence for the murder.

Be kind to those you meet. You never know their truth and things are not always as they appear.

Peace,

Angie & Circusystem