Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the topic of the HBO documentary movie Mommy Lifeless and Dearest and Hulu’s true crime drama The Act, has spoken out for the primary time since her launch from jail on Thursday, December 28, 2023.
“I’m lastly free,” Blanchard stated in a video posted to her TikTok and Instagram accounts on Sunday, December 31. “I simply wished to ship a fast video to thank everybody for the huge quantity of assist that I’ve been getting on social media. Everybody has been actually, very nice and supportive, and I actually recognize that.”
Blanchard was launched from jail on Thursday morning after serving seven years of a ten-year sentence for second-degree homicide in reference to the dying of her mom, Dee Dee Blanchard. She and her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn had been accused of stabbing Dee Dee to dying in June 2015. Godejohn is serving a life sentence.
The story of Blanchard and her mom got here to gentle in a 2016 BuzzFeed article and subsequent HBO documentary movie. For a few years, Dee Dee satisfied people who her daughter was terminally sick with the thoughts of a 7-year-old and suffered from varied illnesses and diseases, together with muscular dystrophy and leukemia.
“It’s good to be dwelling,” Blanchard continued in her social media video. “I’m again dwelling in Louisiana, having fun with a ravishing day outdoors, and I’ve acquired quite a lot of nice issues taking place actually quickly.”
A kind of issues is reuniting along with her husband, Louisiana particular training trainer Ryan Anderson, whom she married whereas in jail. On Sunday, Blanchard shared a photograph of her wedding ceremony ring on Instagram, captioning the pic, “Lastly get to put on my stunning wedding ceremony ring I like you @ryan_s_anderson_.”
Blanchard shared one other video later within the day, letting her followers know she was at dwelling celebrating New 12 months’s Eve along with her household. “I’ve my dad and my step-mom Christy right here and, after all, my husband, so we’re trying to ring within the new 12 months collectively,” she stated. “It’s gonna be actually superior to have some household time after so lengthy.”
Viewers will have the ability to be taught extra about Blanchard’s life and time in jail in Lifetime’s upcoming docuseries, The Jail Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, which premieres on January 5.
Talking in one other video in regards to the collection, Blanchard shared, “It’s not a rehashing of all the pieces that occurred; it’s extra of my reflection of all the pieces that I’ve discovered and skilled within the final eight and a half years.”
The Jail Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Premieres, Friday, January 5, 8/7 c, Lifetime
