Gypsy Rose Blanchard- The girl who never lived

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If you were held hostage, would you kill your kidnapper in order to be free? Well, this is the story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, and it is one that raises many debate. This is because 23 year old Gypsy Rose was deceived to believe she was extremely ill and couldn't live life as a person would of her age. She did not have freedom and was in some ways or another, a hostage of her mother's. So as a hostage, she decided to have her mother killed to finally have the freedom she was supposed to have all along. Do you think this is acceptable?

Dee Dee Blanchard is a liar and a theif. I know, I know, it's a harsh claim, but it's the simple truth. As Gypsy Rose grew up, Dee Dee, her mother, would continuously fake illnesses and fake her daughter's age to recieve sympathy and praise for herself. The false accounts Dee Dee would make would include telling others that Gypsy had leukimia, couldn't walk, couldn't eat unless out of a feeding tube, etc. How did Dee Dee convince everybody she met and Gypsy herself that all this was true? She shaved Gypsy's head, she made Gypsy use a weelchair in public and sometimes in the house, and she forced and convinced doctors and nurses to attach a feeding tube by saying that her daughters medical documents got lost when they were hit by Hurricane Katrina. Dee Dee would not let her daughter use any type of social media or talk to anyone without being by her mothers side. She even went as far as forging her birth certificate so that Gypsy could continue to be a "minor."

After Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose blanchard were affected by Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, Habitat for Humanity built them a home in Missouri where they lived up until the incident. As Gypsy was growing up, she was slowly coming to the realization that some of the things her mother had been telling her were lies. After attending a comic convention with her mother, Gypsy secretly made her own facebook account (she previously shared one with her mom) and started to message with a man she met there, known as Wolverine. They messaged for days and he even bought her a wig so she could wear when they met. Gypsy left to run away with the man, but once Gypsy got to Wolverine's house, Dee Dee showed up to take her back home. She then handcuffed her to her bed to make sure she didn't leave again.

Gypsy kept getting older and smarter and managed to steal some of her mother's money to buy herself a computer. With that computer, she made a profile on a dating site where she met Nicholas Godejohn. The two would soon start dating, despite living in different states, and would start to get sexual online. Hormones on both ends came into play and they decided they needed to meet right away. At meeting, they did the deed and fell more in love. They would do anything for each other, even kill. So that's exactly what they did.

Knowing that Nicholas Godejohn had multiple personalities, Gypsy asked the evil one to help her murder her mother. It was the only way to escape her captivity. On the night of June 9, 2015, Nicholas Godejohn would stab Dee Dee Blanchard nearly seventeen times while Gypsy waited in the bathroom for the job to be done. They then left to Wisconsin in a panic, where they stayed with Nicholas's parents, but once there, they would do something that would eventually lead to their arrest. They went on the joint facebook account shared by Dee Dee and Gypsy, and posted "That B***h is dead!" This of course, raised concerned and police managed to find Dee Dee's body lying in bed inside the what seemed to be sweet, pink, happy home. Police were able to locate both Gypsy and Nicholas at the Wisconsin house and arrest them. In 2018, Gypsy Rose Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in prison on account of second-degree murder and Nicholas Godejohn was sentenced to life in prison on account of first-degree murder.

Was this story a case of a hostage just trying to escape her captor the only way she knew how or was it a designed murder that was long in the works? Would you go to the extreme that Gypsy did to finally experience true freedom or would you continue living your life a lie knowing there was nothing you could do about it but play along? I guess we'll never know.