Gypsy Rose Blanchard expresses sorrow over the fact that her mother will never have the chance to know her upcoming child in a recent interview.
At the age of thirty-three, Blanchard was released from prison in December 2023. She had been serving a 10-year sentence for conspiring in the murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard.
The murder was executed by Gypsy Rose’s former boyfriend, Nick Godejohn, who is serving a life sentence in prison.
Gypsy Rose’s motive stemmed from a form of abuse known as Munchausen Syndrome by proxy. Dee Dee falsely claimed her daughter had leukemia, shaved her head, and forced her to take unneeded medications.
Following her release, Gypsy Rose announced that she and her boyfriend, Ken Urker, are expecting their first child together.
With the baby due in January 2025, Blanchard has been contemplating the fact that her child will never meet their grandmother.
During a recent episode of The Viall Files podcast, Gypsy Rose shared her thoughts, describing it as ‘heartbreaking’ that her mom won’t be present to welcome the baby.
“It is heartbreaking because I do, from time to time, think about what could have been, and it makes me sad,” she revealed.
“Everybody asked the question, you know, ‘What are you gonna tell your daughter whenever grandma isn’t around?'”
She noted, however, that her child will have strong support: “My response to them is that Kristy has become more of a mother to me than my own mother was.”
“Kristy is going to be Grandma.”
Kristy Blanchard, who is Gypsy Rose’s stepmother, has been with Rod Blanchard since Gypsy Rose was an infant, serving as a mother figure throughout her life.
Gypsy Rose has previously spoken about missing Dee Dee.
On Mother’s Day this year, she shared on TikTok: “It does not go without notice that my own biological mother is not here to celebrate Mother’s Day.”
“And what I choose to feel on Mother’s Day regarding my own mother is that I think the best of her.
“I think about the good times. I think about her as not what she did to me, but I think about her as a person.”
She added: “Was she a good mom? No. Was she the best mom in the world? No. But she was still my mom so what I choose to feel about her, whether that be guilt, anger, grief, resentment; whatever.”