Gypsy Rose Blanchard will be on Good Morning America tomorrow to discuss her docuseries, ‘The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.’
The 32-year-old, who was released from prison last week, recalled her state of mind when she and then boyfriend Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn conspired to kill her mother in June 2015 in a new interview with PEOPLE.
“It was panic, desperation,” Gypsy told PEOPLE. “Because I was facing yet another surgery pretty soon, and I really did not want to have the surgery.”
For years, Dee Dee had subjected Gypsy to unnecessary medical procedures and convinced her daughter and others that she had a series of illnesses.
It was argued in court and is widely believed that Gypsy was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare form of abuse in which a guardian exaggerates or induces illness in a child for sympathy and attention.
Gypsy, who served eight years of her 10-year sentence in prison, reflected on the nature of the surgery she was due to undergo before her mom’s death: “It was work on my neck, something about my voice and my vocal cords and my voice box, to figure out why my voice is so high-pitched,” she said.
“And they thought the doctors attributed that to maybe a breathing issue.
So they were going to do surgery on my larynx, and at that point, I was just not having it. I’m like, ‘I do not want to have the surgery.’ I expressed that to my mother.”
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