Just a few months after her release from prison, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is sharing her “life after lock up” in a new Lifetime series premiering June 3.
“I do not feel free. I feel like I am in a different form of prison,” Blanchard laments in the trailer for “Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up,” which sees her fielding death threats on Instagram, being followed on the highway and consulting a plastic surgeon about her nose.
Blanchard also copes with the fallout of her marriage with Ryan Anderson, whom she married in July 2022, during her eight-year prison sentence. She filed for divorce against the special education teacher in April 2024.
“I don’t want to lose my wife, I love her,” Anderson says in the series, which was presumably shot before the couple officially separated.
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“I just don’t know if I’m going to be happy in this marriage. Eventually, I’m going to want a divorce,” Blanchard says.
Blanchard was released from prison in December 2023 after serving more than eight years for the 2015 murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. In 2016, Gypsy Rose Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, confessing that she convinced her then-boyfriend, Nick Godejohn, to stab her mother to death as she slept. She was entered into a plea deal after attorneys discovered the abuse Gypsy Rose Blanchard experienced at the hands of her mother. She was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, as her mother convinced the people in her life, including doctors, that Gypsy Rose Blanchard had leukemia, muscular dystrophy and other illnesses.
Blanchard’s life and the killing of her mother were explored in the 2017 HBO documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest” and dramatized in the 2019 Hulu limited series “The Act,” starring Joey King and Patricia Arquette.
Blanchard, now 32, has said that she regrets her role in her mother’s death, telling People magazine in an interview shortly before her release, “She was a sick woman and unfortunately I wasn’t educated enough to see that. She deserved to be where I am, sitting in prison doing time for criminal behavior.”
Watch the trailer below.
