Gypsy Rose Blanchard Reveals the Books and Films That Inspired Her

Gypsy Rose Blanchard has continued to gain popularity since his parole in December 2023.

In 2015, Nicolas Godejohn fatally stabbed Clauddine “Dee Dee” BlanchardGypsy reportedly heard the entire incident from the next room. The couple had conspired to end Dee Dee’s life after Gypsy endured years of abuse at their hands.

After spending eight and a half years in prison, Gypsy has continued to tell her story and advocate for Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental illness and form of child abuse. For those who don’t know, a child’s caregiver, most often a mother, will invent false symptoms or create real symptoms to make the child appear sick.

Through a web of fabricated illnesses like leukemia, sleep apnea and muscular dystrophy, Dee Dee managed to convince doctors and the public that Gypsy needed 24-hour care and specialized equipment, including a wheelchair.

Today, Gypsy Rose Blanchard shares her story and invites her fans into her life. She recently launched a YouTube channel where she engages with her fans, including answering fan questions. A fan recently asked her about books or movies that inspired her.

In the recently uploaded YouTube video, Gypsy Rose shared that she is a huge fan of the popular “Harry Potter” franchise.

“I’ve always been a huge fan of the Harry Potter books,” she revealed. “I feel like the overall message of the books is very inspiring, and I relate to that a little bit.”

“It’s about overcoming a part of your past that’s been very dark for you,” she continued. “So for Harry, it was about losing his parents and defeating Voldemort and, you know, going on this quest for the greater good.”

“For me, you know, it’s about overcoming the abuse that I’ve suffered and seeing how I can make a difference in the world in the future for the greater good, so I guess I can relate to that a little bit. The circumstances are different, but the message is the same,” she concluded.

After hearing her choice, fans rallied behind Gypsy, congratulating her on her choice. “HARRY POTTER!” Yes! You need to read the “ACOTAR” series!” one social media user claimed.

“Same girl, same thing. We’re getting there!” wrote another.

“Oh my god I love you so much,” said a third while a fourth suggested: “You should read Percy Jackson!”

Gypsy Rose’s story captivated audiences and the media, sparking a 2017 MAX documentary called “Mommy Dead and Dearest” and a Hulu series called “The Act.”

For those unaware, Dee Dee Blanchard was tragically found stabbed to death in her Springfield, Missouri home in 2015. Gypsy Rose and Gypsy’s then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, became suspects after police recovered incriminating text messages detailing the murder plot.

In 2016, Gypsy Rose went on trial in connection with her mother’s death. It was revealed that Gypsy had never been as sick as Dee Dee claimed: her mother had fabricated her medical records and misled everyone into believing she was seriously ill. Dee Dee went so far as to persuade doctors to give her unnecessary treatments and surgeries.

As Dee Dee took Gypsy to countless doctors, she knew exactly how to persuade them to prescribe all sorts of medications, probably because she worked as a nurse’s aide.

“I was in the dark like everybody else,” Gypsy admitted. “The only thing I knew was I could walk. For everything else, the leukemia, the epilepsy, I was on drugs that (Dee Dee) said were cancer drugs.”

And it didn’t stop there. In addition to the so-called cancer treatments, Dee Dee got doctors to give her painkillers like Vicodin. “No one knows I was an addict before prison, let alone in prison,” the former inmate revealed in her Lifetime docuseries, “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.”

“The doctors prescribed me painkillers after the surgery,” she said in the documentary series. “But when the painkillers wore off, I was still in pain, and my mom had a prescription for Vicodin.”

“So when she wasn’t looking, I would go and get one or two from her bottle. I didn’t really know what addiction was. I just knew it was a craving, that was all I could think about. I wanted another one,” the former inmate added.

“The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard” is now streaming on Lifetime.