Gypsy Rose Blanchard Biography

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is an American criminal convicted of masterminding her own mother’s murder. She suffered years of abuse at the hands of her mother, including claims of cancer, muscular dystrophy, brain damage, learning disabilities, vision impairment, etc. She was confined to a wheelchair for the majority of her life even though she was a perfectly healthy person. But, her mother presented her as a severely disabled and sick child who needed to be looked after 24/7. The mother-daughter became celebrities and received much media attention after their house was swept away in Hurricane Katrina. After several failed escape attempts, she hatched a plan with her boyfriend to kill her mother. After killing her mother, they ran away, but were arrested soon after. She is now in prison for second-degree murder, but claims that she feels freer now than she did ever before. She has also been the subject of several documentary films over the past four years.