It’s a strange day when Gypsy Rose Blanchard misses her mother.
Earlier this summer, news of Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s pregnancy sparked mixed reactions among her supporters.
Some people fear she’s making a mistake – or making many mistakes. And others are happy that she finally gets to make her own choices after losing him whole life To an abusive mother and then to an unjust legal system.
Ms. Rose Blanchard has other things on her mind, too. This also includes the sadness that, of all people, his deceased mother will not be around.
Why does Gypsy Rose Blanchard miss her mother?
On Wednesday, October 16, Ms. Rose Blanchard spoke to Nick Viall on his The Viall Vialls Podcast.
The 33-year-old is currently pregnant and expecting a daughter with her boyfriend Ken Urker. A year ago, she was still behind bars, having lost years of her life to the prison system due to the death of Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.
“I mean, for me, it’s heartbreaking because I think from time to time about what could have been,” Blanchard admitted. “And it makes me sad.”
“So, I’ve got it in my mind,” Ms. Rose Blanchard said. “And so, I mean, there have been questions on social media.”
She explained: “Everyone asks the question, you know, ‘What will you tell your daughter whenever Grandma’s not around?'”
Blanchard responded: “My reaction to them is that Christy has become even more of a mother to me than my own mother,” she said of her stepmother, Christy Blanchard. “Christy is going to be a grandmother.”
Is this hypocrisy of his, all things considered?
It’s actually extremely common for abuse survivors who have survived in some way or another to have thoughts about their abuser, to remember aspects about them and to wonder if things can As it has happened. (The fantasy is generally healthy – it is only dangerous when it leads someone to reconnect with their abuser)
Part of this is due to the psychological damage that abusers inflict on their victims. Whether it’s partner violence or a parent who poisons and incapacitates their child due to an extreme case of Munchausen by proxy, abusers dominate their victim’s thoughts – often for years or decades. It can be difficult to get rid of it.
Another part of this incident is just that Very It’s normal to wish that the people in your life would be better people. Ms. Rose Blanchard is right in wishing that her mother would have been a decent person and one day become a grandmother.
Because our criminal justice system often makes a mockery of the word “justice,” Ms. Rose Blanchard had to spend eight years of her life behind bars.
The court sentenced her to 10 years in prison for conspiring with her then-boyfriend Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn to murder her mother Dee Dee Blanchard.
Blanchard is another high profile case of an abused child who found only one way to escape after everything else in his life had failed him.
Now, she has a (mostly) fresh start
Unlike other cases, like the Menendez brothers, who are serving out their unjust prison sentences, Blanchard was able to leave prison in December 2023.
Since then, she’s appeared on reality television, experienced sudden social media stardom, and reconsidered a toxic marriage. And, of course, she and her boyfriend are now expecting.
We cannot expect Ms. Rose Blanchard to make the same choices that others will. He has lived a very different life. However, for the first time in her life, she is able to make her own choices. This is a good thing.