At the beginning of January 2024, Gypsy Rose Blanchard made headlines for getting out of prison early. She spent eight years behind bars after plotting with Nicholas Godejohn to take the life of her abusive mother, Dee Dee Blanchard.
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The Daily Beast Obsessed quoted Gypsy Rose’s descriptions of life in jail. After her release, Gypsy Rose told reporters that she “started having faith again” when she realized she’d be “getting out of prison fairly young.”
But Gypsy Rose experienced tough times in prison, and shockingly, the Daily Beast reported that she was once placed in “solitary confinement” because a fan posted on social media that she shouldn’t be in jail, and “they wished they could break her out.”
After she was put in solitary confinement, Gypsy Rose claimed that the prison guards went through her personal belongings to see if she was plotting an escape, and the Daily Beast called that experience a “horror.”
Gypsy Rose Made Shocking Confessions
Gypsy Rose admitted she was “not optimistic” about her fate when she was “in County Jail,” and she also confessed that she became dependent on opioids as a prisoner.
But in an interview with People, Gypsy Rose revealed that she successfully overcame her dependency in jail. She said, “I wanted to come out of prison a new woman,” and she knew that beating her dependence on substances was “something I had to get over.”
Gypsy Rose admitted that prison life improved for her when she stayed in the “honor wing,” which she nicknamed “the penthouse of prison.” She described the honor wing as “really nice,” and Gypsy Rose admitted, “I lived there for a couple of years.”
While it might sound pretty sparse to people on the outside, Gypsy Rose enjoyed having two microwaves and “big round tables in the day room with board games.” She recalled having a “key” to her room, which had shared bunk beds and “a nice little table in the middle.”
In an A&E interview, Gypsy Rose made another shocking confession about coming “into prison with a second-grade education.” She revealed, “I studied and got to build my vocabulary” in prison, and Gypsy Rose got to watch “different educational shows” on TV.
Thankfully, Gypsy Rose didn’t seem to experience any cruelty from other prisoners. In a People cover story, Gypsy Rose claimed that another inmate became “like a mother figure” who taught her how to use feminine hygiene products, and while she understood that other women in prison “had been around the block,” Gypsy Rose said she gained many “positives from the experience.”
But when she appeared on Nick Viall’s podcast, Gypsy Rose confessed it still made her “cringe” when she remembered other girls in prison telling her they “would’ve done the same thing” to Dee Dee.
She told Nick, “I’m hearing these words like, your mother was a whatever, she deserved it,” and shockingly, Gypsy Rose claimed, “I’m like, no, she didn’t.”
Gypsy Rose revealed, “The one thing that people think is that I hated my mom,” but she alleged that the real truth is, she loved her mom. She told Nick, “I just wanted out of that situation. I wanted out of that home.”
E! News reported on Gypsy Rose’s 20/20 interview when she was still a prisoner. She described life with her mom as another form of prison, claiming, “I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t have friends,” and Gypsy Rose said she was “freer in [actual] prison than living with my mom.”
Gypsy Rose Married Ryan Scott Anderson While in Prison
It’s crazy to learn that Gypsy Rose got married to Ryan Scott Anderson when she was still in prison, even though she had “no real access to the Internet and dating apps” in jail.
E! News reported that Gypsy Rose and Ryan met “the old-fashioned way” and that Ryan became her “pen pal” after he watched the 2017 documentary on Gypsy Rose and Dee Dee called “Mommy Dead and Dearest.”
An insider told E! News that Ryan wrote Gypsy Rose in prison to “support her, be kind to her, and this and that turned into a relationship.” After they started writing back and forth, Ryan visited Gypsy Rose in prison, and the insider revealed their friendship “turned into something more…”
However, the insider revealed that Gypsy Rose wanted to keep something private. The insider admitted that they weren’t sure when Gypsy Rose and Ryan became more than friends, and they said, “I think she’s keeping some things to herself” so she could “control some stuff in her life for once.”
