Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Played by Joey King in The Act, Granted Early Prison Release
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the Missouri woman who in 2016 was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to the killing of her mother, has been granted parole and is due to be released early, in December.
Blanchard’s story was the subject of The Act, an eight-episode Hulu true crime series that premiered in March 2019 and starred Joey King.
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Blanchard, now 32, had been the victim of an overprotective mother, Dee Dee (played by Patricia Arquette in The Act), who suffered from FDIA (Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another fka Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy). Dee Dee Blanchard had led her daughter and their community to believe that Gypsy was sick with cancer among other ailments, and was in need of a wheelchair (even though she wasn’t).
In June of 2015, Gypsy Blanchard arranged for her online boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn (played in The Act by Austin & Aly‘s Calum Worthy), to travel to the family’s home in Springfield, Mo. to kill her mother; days later, the two were both arrested.
Godejohn was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison; Gypsy Blanchard, whose years of abuse at her mother’s hand earned her a deal from prosecutors, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to a minimum of 10 years in prison.
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