Ryan Scott Anderson and Gypsy Rose Blanchard
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard is separating from her husband simply three months after regaining her freedom, she confirmed on social media this week.
“Individuals have been asking what’s going on in my life. Sadly, my husband and I are going by a separation and I moved in with my mother and father dwelling down the bayou,” Blanchard wrote, referencing a reconnection she’s had along with her father, Rod Blanchard and stepmom, Kristy. “I’ve the help of my household and associates to assist information me by this. I’m studying to take heed to my coronary heart. Proper now I want time to let myself discover … who I’m.”
The wedding of Blanchard, 32, to Ryan Scott Anderson, a instructor from Louisiana, in a 2022 jail home marriage ceremony gave the impression to be a turning level within the younger lady’s tumultuous life, which earlier than her time in jail was spent beneath the thumb of her controlling mom, Dee Dee Blanchard. The lady was murdered by her daughter’s then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, in 2015; and regularly, after her physique was discovered stabbed to loss of life of their Missouri dwelling, the reality in regards to the darkish relationship between mom and daughter turned clear.
Dee Dee Blanchard, for years, had been mendacity about a number of illnesses and issues she falsely claimed her daughter Gypsy Rose suffered with, together with leukemia, bronchial asthma and muscular dystrophy; pointless medical procedures and medicines gave Dee Dee deep management over the lady for years whereas they accepted beneficiant charity and donations from quite a few organizations.
Because the authorized fallout unfolded and the reality got here out to a shocked public, Gypsy Rose accepted a plea discount and was sentenced to 10 years in jail after it was argued she was a sufferer of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, whereby a guardian exaggerates and infrequently will induce sickness to achieve sympathy, and persuaded Godejohn to kill her mom. In 2019, Godejohn was discovered responsible of first-degree homicide and is at the moment serving a life sentence in jail.
Whereas her story turned a profitable HBO documentary, Mommy Lifeless and Dearest, and Hulu sequence, The Act, Blanchard started to elicit sympathy from the general public as she was perceived extra as a sufferer. In the meantime, her life in jail shifted, along with her telling ABC’s 20/20 that she felt extra free there than beneath life along with her late mom.
She additionally met Anderson and shortly, through letters and telephone calls, a relationship blossomed and led to a deepening relationship as he started to go to her in jail. The couple exchanged vows in a personal ceremony held within the jail the place Blanchard was serving her sentence.
“It was very, very small, we didn’t have any visitors,” she instructed Individuals journal. “It was simply one thing for him.”
Blanchard was launched on parole from Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Middle in December 2023 after serving 85 p.c of her sentence.
Her life once more received the TV therapy with a number of specials across the time of her launch, together with the Lifetime docuseries The Jail Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard. She had spoken about getting chilly ft earlier than marring Anderson within the Jail Confessions doc, saying she reached out to her ex-fiancé 12 days earlier than the nuptials, one thing she ultimately instructed Anderson about. “I omitted the reality, however I wish to go into this marriage with no regrets,” she stated. “I would like go into this marriage figuring out that I wiped the slate clear of any omissions, lies, something.”
When talking to THR across the doc’s launch, she stated she was wanting ahead to settling into married life. “I’ve been spending my time reconnecting with my dad [Rod Blanchard] and my stepmom, Kristy, and actually spending time with my husband,” she stated in January of this 12 months. “We’re again dwelling in Louisiana now, and we’re settling into married life. I positively needed to type of go peeking by his closet and placing my garments on the shelf and integrating myself into his life now. I’m making this my dwelling.”