Gypsy-Rose Blanchard — who admitted to orchestrating her mother’s murder in order to escape years of abuse — is set to be released from prison late next week — and meeting Taylor Swift is at the top of her post-incarceration bucket list.
Blanchard, now 32, will be released on Dec. 28 — over seven years after she was sentenced to 10 years behind bars when she pleaded guilty to her role in the 2015 stabbing death of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, CBS News explained.
Just two days after her release, Blanchard and her husband, Ryan Scott Anderson, have tickets to the Kansas City Chiefs game — where she hopes to bump into idol Taylor Swift, TMZ reported.
Swift’s song “Eyes Open” helped inspire Blanchard to push through the hardships of her young life, and she admiringly refers to the songstress as a “kick-ass chick,” the outlet said.
Blanchard has even used commissary money sent to her by her father to purchase all of Swift’s albums, according to TMZ.
If the Dec. 31 plan does not work out, Blanchard also plans to be present for the New Orleans leg of Swift’s Eras Tour next fall, the outlet added.
Whether or not she meets up with Swift, Blanchard’s life post-prison is set to be worlds away from the first two decades of her life, during which she endured serious physical and mental abuse from her mother, whom experts now believed suffered from Munchausen by proxy syndrome, CBS said.
For most of her childhood, Blanchard — and the rest of the world — believed she was terminally ill and had the intellectual capabilities of a seven-year-old, according to PEOPLE.
Dee Dee even restricted her daughter to a wheelchair – despite the fact that she could actually walk without assistance – and told others that she had leukemia, muscular dystrophy, and other illnesses, the magazine explained.
The truth only came out after Blanchard’s then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, stabbed Dee Dee to death in their Missouri home in June 2015.
Blanchard and Godejohn went on the run, but were tracked down thanks to series of troubling posts they made on Blanchard and her mother’s shared Facebook profile, CBS News said.
Godejohn — who is on the autism spectrum — told police that he stabbed Dee Dee to death at Blanchard’s request, using a knife she gave him, the outlet continued.
He also stole cash from the house and mailed the knife to his own house in Wisconsin before the pair fled there.
Investigators eventually determined that Dee Dee faked her daughter’s illnesses for financial gain – noting that she had used their supposed hardships to grift donations from various organizations over the years.
Godejohn was found guilty of Dee Dee’s murder and was sentenced to life in prison plus 25 years.
The saga of Dee Dee and Gypsy Blanchard immediately made the rounds in the media in the form of podcasts, documentaries, and television specials.
In 2019, the mother and daughter were played by Patricia Arquette and Joey King in the Hulu series “The Act.”
Blanchard’s own account of her years under her mother’s thumb will be shared in the upcoming Ebook “Released,” which will be published on Jan. 9, according to Penguin Random House.
“While incarcerated for her role in her mother’s death, Gypsy saw her story told by others again and again in the media, from news reports and podcasts to TV series like The Act (Hulu),” the publisher’s blurb reads.
“Now, granted early parole and preparing to start a new life, she’s free to speak directly to her supporters and the world.”
With Post wires
