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On May 26th, 2014, Gypsy Rose Blanchard sent a video message to Nicholas Godejohn in which she recounted a significant claim about her medical history. According to the video – the transcript of which was obtained by Into The Weeds Podcast via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in 2025,
Gypsy stated that around 1997, at the age of six, she experienced a seizure during surgery that left her temporarily paralysed.
In the video, Gypsy claimed she eventually regained feeling in her legs but chose not to tell anyone, reportedly due to fear that her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, would “stop loving her.” She further stated that she continued to feign paralysis until 2011.
This account appears to diverge from Gypsy’s widely publicized post-arrest narrative, in which she alleged that Dee Dee had coerced or forced her to remain in a wheelchair, a central detail in the Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy framework often presented in documentaries and interviews.
At first glance, this claim may appear unlikely. However, it raises a key question: Why would Gypsy, who has consistently framed herself as a victim of medical abuse, tell Nicholas Godejohn that she chose to pretend she was paralysed, rather than assert that Dee Dee forced her into a wheelchair, as she has claimed in numerous interviews since her arrest?
The inconsistency between this private account and her later public narrative suggests a need for careful scrutiny. For that reason, this detail deserves to be considered as we continue to explore Gypsy’s complex and often contradictory medical history.
"They didn't really have to kill my sister" (Evans Pitre, 2017)
In 1991, when Gypsy Rose Blanchard was just three months old, she exhibited signs of sleep apnea, a serious condition that caused her to stop breathing and experience seizures during sleep.
In response, Dee Dee, acting in accordance with what any responsible parent would do, raised her concerns with medical professionals.
After an assessment, Dee Dee was provided with a CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) monitor to help manage Gypsy’s condition and alert her to any potential breathing issues during the night.
Sleep apnea would remain a documented issue for Gypsy for years to come.
Despite this, Gypsy later claimed in the 2017 documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest that the breathing monitor ‘seemed to make my breathing worse, not better.’
This effectively implies that both the medical professionals and her mother were endangering, rather than helping, her life.
However, Dee Dee’s version of events, preserved in Gypsy’s medical records, paints a different picture.
According to those records, Dee Dee reported that Gypsy actually liked using the CPAP machine, which she said helped Gypsy sleep more restfully.
A medical report dated July 1st, 2004, supports this account, stating that the CPAP resolved Gypsy’s “significant nocturnal hypoventilation.”
While Gypsy is now free to speak her version of events without rebuttal from her late mother, the medical records remain a critical counterpoint, offering insight into what was being reported and observed at the time, not years later through the lens of a media narrative.
Rod Blanchard has, over the years, offered various recollections regarding Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s early medical issues, particularly her sleep apnea. His statements, however, have been inconsistent and often contradictory, which perhaps isn’t surprising given that Rod himself admits he was largely absent during the first five years of Gypsy’s life.
Still, despite limited involvement, Rod has repeatedly weighed in on her early health.
If one were generously paid to comment on Cleopatra’s childhood, one might attempt to do so after reading a few historical texts,
but in Rod’s case, he’s speaking not about an ancient figure, but about his own daughter.
In Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017), Rod recalls: “Right from birth, three months old, Dee Dee was telling me she (Gypsy) had sleep apnea, and she needed a, er, breathing machine or, or, breathing monitor machine. Which, I mean, I, I, to this day, don’t know if that was real or not, you know?”
So was it from birth, or from three months old? The ambiguity continues.
In Gypsy’s Revenge (2018), he elaborates: “Dee Dee tells me she’s trying to get her (Gypsy) this heart monitor that she’d have to wear whilst she slept, because she stopped breathing in her sleep, and she’d have, or she’d have seizures in the middle of the night. And she’d tell me she was bringing her for tests and everything, and that she had sleep apnea. She acted so scared.”
The phrase “acted so scared” implies performance, which in turn suggests fabrication, leaning into the narrative of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.
However, that implication stands in contrast to medical facts about infantile seizures and their impact on development, something Dee Dee relayed to Rod: “When she’d (Gypsy) have these seizures, it would knock her (Gypsy) back mentally a couple of years.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018)
This is not a falsehood, seizures in infancy can indeed delay developmental milestones.
Rod has also stated that not long after separating from Dee Dee, she informed him that Gypsy was having sleeping problems and had been diagnosed with epilepsy. He’s quoted in Gypsy’s Truth and Lies (2018) as saying: “She (Gypsy) was sick. Problems sleeping. Epilepsy. And it just progressed from there.”
Yet Rod also claims he and Dee Dee split three months before Gypsy was born, which raises the question: when exactly does he believe Gypsy’s epilepsy began, in utero?
By 2019, Rod appears to have reversed course, stating: “From the medical records I’ve seen now, there was no determination that she had sleep apnea. Her tests seemed pretty normal. But Dee Dee was persistent that she get the heart monitor she would wear at night.” (The Killer Thorn of Gypsy Rose, 2019)
This assertion overlooks a key piece of documentation: a July 1st, 2004 medical report confirming “evidence of significant nocturnal hypoventilation, resolved with the use of the nasal CPAP.”
Rod further claims that he never witnessed Gypsy having a seizure, a questionable litmus test, given how rarely he saw her, and that seizures related to sleep apnea typically occur during sleep, when he would not have been present.
In 2024, Rod again changed his stance: “I remember when Gypsy was 3, 4 months old. Dee Dee told me she stopped breathing in her sleep. She had her tested and she had sleep apnea.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024)
From “maybe it was real” to “she definitely had sleep apnea,” Rod’s recollections shift significantly over time.
To summarize Rod’s version of events: Gypsy may or may not have had sleep apnea, which may have started before she was born, or at birth, or at three months, or perhaps four.
Ironically, in 2007, a physician who suspected Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy noted, “The mother is not a good historian.”
That physician had clearly never interviewed Rod Blanchard.
Gypsy’s medical records indicate that her seizures were only witnessed by Dee Dee. While that fact is often used to question their legitimacy, it is not uncommon for sleep-related seizures in infants to go unwitnessed except by a caregiver. The absence of third-party observation does not negate their occurrence.Rod has also claimed that he briefly reunited with Dee Dee out of concern for Gypsy’s health: “That didn’t work out. I didn’t feel any different.” (The Killer Thorn of Gypsy Rose, 2019)
Whether that return was driven by genuine concern or other personal motives remains speculative.
Maybe Rod and his inflated sense of self were on another ‘fill-in-the-gap-break’ from Kristy. Or from Jill. Or from the other Christy. Or he needed a ride.
Interestingly, it is Dee Dee’s own father, Claude Pitre Sr., who adds an additional layer of credibility to the sleep apnea diagnosis:
“At night, Gypsy had a machine on. The alarm would come on when she stopped breathing. So you had to wake her up. Once you’d wake her up, the machine would stop. But it was scary.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024)
That account, along with clear medical documentation, confirms that Gypsy’s breathing issues were both real and concerning.
For the record, sleep disorders and seizures in infants are consistent symptoms of 1q21.1 microdeletion syndrome, the very genetic condition Gypsy has.
So perhaps it’s time for Rod ‘T-Rod’ Blanchard to sit this one out.
According to – you’ve guessed – Rod Blanchard, “When she (Gypsy) was around 4, 5, 6, Dee Dee started telling me she had some problems with her eyes, seizures. She would say that the seizures would affect her eyes.” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017).
Two years later, in The Killer Thorn of Gypsy Rose (2019), Rod revised the timeline: “Before she was 5, Dee Dee started talking about her having problems with her eyes.”
It seems even the basic details surrounding the onset of Gypsy’s eye issues remain unclear to Rod. Was she four? Five? Six?
The range only further underscores Rod’s uncertain grasp of events from his daughter’s early life.
Medical records, by contrast, offer clarity. Gypsy underwent eye surgery at just three years old. Dee Dee, her primary caregiver, also reported that symptoms began as early as eight months.
In both instances – crucial moments in a child’s health history – Rod was absent.
Probably along with his memory.
Gypsy herself has since downplayed the severity of her condition, stating in Gypsy’s Truth and Lies (2018): “The only thing I have wrong with me is I have a little bit of a lazy eye. That’s it. Nothing else.”
This statement omits the fact that Gypsy has been diagnosed with 1q21.1 microdeletion syndrome, a rare chromosomal disorder known to include eye abnormalities among its symptoms, strabismus being one of them.
Strabismus is not simply “a lazy eye.” It is a serious misalignment of the eyes that, if untreated, can lead to permanent vision loss. In Gypsy’s case, the condition affected both eyes, and her medical records confirm that she underwent multiple corrective surgeries over the years, procedures deemed medically necessary by professionals.
Nonetheless, Gypsy, Rod, and Kristy Blanchard (Rod’s wife) have all attempted to minimize or question the legitimacy of those procedures. Kristy, for example, claimed in a 2018 interview: “She does have a lazy eye if she doesn’t wear her glasses all the time. That was since she was a little baby. Everything else was all a lie.” (Ozarksfirst.com, February 28, 2018).
That, in itself, is demonstrably false.
The 200+ pages of medical records released in 2023 by The Good Wives Network not only document Gypsy’s strabismus diagnosis but also the surgical interventions that helped preserve her vision.
These are the same records Rod and Kristy claim to have read, after the fact.
It’s worth highlighting that Dee Dee Blanchard – despite the posthumous allegations – was the parent who ensured Gypsy received appropriate treatment for this serious condition. Rod, by his own admission, did not attend a single medical appointment or surgery over the course of Gypsy’s childhood.
Yet post-tragedy, he and Kristy Blanchard were all over Gypsy’s medical records like a nasty inflamed rash.
Gypsy’s own account of her earliest medical memories is inconsistent.
In Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017), she recalls her first memory as having her feeding tube inserted. However, during her Dr. Phil interview the same year, she recalls: “My first memory would be in the hospital, and I remember having a surgery done to my eyes.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017)
Both memories may be valid, or they may not. What they highlight is the fragmented, conflicting narrative that continues to surround Gypsy’s medical history.
Dr. Robert Steele, who became Gypsy’s primary care physician when she was already 14, is often mistakenly referred to as her “childhood doctor.”
In The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose (2024), Dr. Steele theorizes that Dee Dee’s alleged Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy may have originated around the time of Gypsy’s eye diagnosis, implying that Dee Dee received emotional gratification from medical attention.
However, the foundation of that theory – that Dee Dee sought unnecessary procedures – is undermined by the reality that strabismus is a medically recognized, treatable condition, as Dr. Steele himself acknowledges: “From having a child that could have gone blind.”
That fact alone suggests Dee Dee acted appropriately, not manipulatively, when she sought treatment.
Then there’s Gypsy’s former attorney and current manager, Mike Stanfield, who stated: “I don’t know why these procedures were done, or how her mother was able to convince the doctors. ‘Mind-boggling’ is the only way I can put her ability to manipulate people.” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017)
This suggestion – that licensed physicians performed surgical procedures based solely on a mother’s say-so – borders on the irresponsible.
It grossly underestimates the rigor of medical protocols and the professionalism of clinicians.
No eye surgeon performs multiple operations on a minor without clinical justification.
Unless, of course, you’re crafting a legal narrative to support a Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy defense.
The bottom line?
Strabismus is a known symptom of 1q21.1 microdeletion syndrome.
Gypsy Rose had it.
She was treated for it.
And the treatment likely saved her from lifelong vision impairment.
For anyone questioning whether those interventions were necessary, or real, the evidence speaks for itself.
Perhaps it’s time for the revisionists to sit this one out.
That’ll be you Bob. And you, Mike.
In 1995, Kristy Blanchard gave birth to her first child, Dylan Michael Blanchard. Despite this well-documented date, Kristy and Rod Blanchard often appear in media accounts that imply a more traditional timeline: first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage.
This sanitized narrative omits that Dylan was born four years before their 1999 marriage, a detail they’ve chosen not to correct publicly.
Why the omission?
Possibly because Rod was still legally married to Dee Dee at the time of Dylan’s conception. While speculative, the motive behind reshaping this timeline may reflect a desire to maintain a particular image.
Kristy, at the very least, seems invested in how that story is told.
At the time of Dee Dee Blanchard’s murder, it was reported that Dylan wished to remain out of the spotlight and avoided social media.
This, too, is contradicted by the presence of several active accounts and numerous post-2015 images of Dylan shared by Kristy on her own public profiles.
While there is undoubtedly more to this family dynamic, not all closets need to be opened.
Gypsy has often claimed her extensive dental problems were the result of long-term overmedication. In Gypsy’s Revenge (2018), she said: “The medications did affect my teeth. They started to deteriorate and some of them had to be extracted.”
In an earlier interview from 2017 (Mother Knows Best), she pointed to Tegretol, an anticonvulsant prescribed for her seizures, as the primary culprit.
However, this theory has flaws. Tegretol can cause dry mouth, which contributes to tooth decay, but its misuse in high doses can be lethal, not just damaging.
If Dee Dee had been over-administering it, as Gypsy alleges, the result would likely have been much more severe than dental deterioration. Moreover, records show Gypsy’s Tegretol prescription ended in 2005, by which time many of her teeth were still intact.
Is it more plausible that Dee Dee withheld medication and treatment? That’s not supported by the evidence either. Medical records show that Gypsy had a high palate, a condition that can cause feeding difficulties, sleep apnea, and serious dental complications. She also suffered from acid reflux, which erodes enamel over time.
Additionally, Gypsy willingly continued using a baby bottle well into adulthood – last known sighting when Gypsy was 23 – another known contributor to tooth decay.
The reality is likely multifactorial: Gypsy had genuinely poor dental health, driven by a combination of congenital factors, underlying conditions, and long-term use of medications, but not willful neglect or abuse in this specific regard.
Medical records indicate that Dee Dee took steps to address these issues through extensive dental rehabilitation, including multiple surgeries and ongoing care.
With everything Gypsy faced medically, it’s remarkable she retained as many teeth as she did.
Gypsy has repeatedly claimed that Dee Dee instructed her to stay silent during medical appointments. In Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017), Gypsy said: “She’d tell me to play with my Barbie doll, and if the doctor examined me, to stay in the wheelchair, be calm, and not move my legs.”
In The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose (2024), she added: “She would squeeze my hand — that was a signal to shut up.”
However, these statements are challenged by actual medical documentation. For example, during a 2007 pre-op evaluation for dental surgery, which included 10 fillings, two extractions, and crowns, the physician noted that Gypsy’s vocabulary appeared “more advanced than 2nd grade” and described her as “fluent and engaging.”
Dee Dee was also described as “extremely attentive and loving.”
One of the most heavily disputed aspects of Gypsy’s story is whether she ever had seizures.
Gypsy and her legal team have suggested her epilepsy was fabricated.
Yet medical records and prescriptions tell another story.
As late as May 29, 2013, just two years before Dee Dee’s death, Gypsy attended a neurology follow-up where doctors chose to increase her dosage of Keppra, a medication used specifically for managing epilepsy.
Doctors don’t casually prescribe or adjust seizure medication.
They do so based on observable symptoms, testing, and evaluation.
Further evidence comes from Gypsy herself.
After her arrest in 2015, while in custody at the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department, she told a deputy that she had been transported to the hospital to receive medication for her “seizure disorder.”
That disorder – which Gypsy now claims never existed – was still being referenced by Gypsy herself at the time of her arrest.
And yet, she now insists it was all an act.
According to the Epilepsy Foundation, nearly 60% of individuals diagnosed with epilepsy become seizure-free with proper treatment.
It’s entirely plausible that Gypsy’s condition improved, but less likely that it never existed.
Twenty-three years of consistent medical documentation, with multiple specialists, follow-ups, and prescriptions, are hard to write off as mere fiction.
Since her release from prison in December 2023, Gypsy has undergone a cosmetic dental overhaul, replacing her silver crowns with porcelain veneers as part of a full “smile makeover.” Good for her.
But it’s worth remembering that Gypsy’s growing platform is largely funded by public fascination with her mother’s murder.
In 2024, online sources estimated Gypsy’s net worth at approximately $3 million. Gypsy publicly refuted this, claiming she had only $15,000 in her bank account. Bless her.
$15,000 in the bank isn’t bad for someone who has never done an actual day’s work in their entire life.
Yet by April 2025, she reportedly deposited $50,000 into her (now ex-) husband’s account, an amount difficult to reconcile with her earlier claims of financial hardship. In short, Gypsy Rose Blanchard may not be as financially destitute, or as medically innocent, as her public narrative suggests.
Definition of ‘a poor mouth’:
A person who claims poverty in order to gain sympathy or financial advantage.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard may be one of the most literal examples of that definition, with the receipts, the records, and the royalties to prove it.
Addendum: Back in 25 Sept 2025, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard made her presence known in the comments section of our TikTok account (GRBEvidence), and tried to rebut that she ”didn’t budget right”. However, she was confronted by other TikTokers to tell the truthm yet Gypsy-Rose Blanchard never responded to any of them.
The decision to place a feeding tube in Gypsy Rose Blanchard was made not by her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, but by a multidisciplinary team of medical specialists.
According to Gypsy’s medical records, this conclusion followed an “extensive evaluation by a feeding team.”
The procedure was considered an appropriate and necessary intervention for several documented health concerns at the time, including failure to thrive, gastroesophageal reflux, dysphagia (difficulty swallowing), and hypersalivation.
Before the feeding tube placement, Gypsy underwent a Nissen fundoplication, a surgical procedure used to treat severe acid reflux, further evidence of ongoing gastrointestinal issues.
In various media appearances, Gypsy’s father, Rod Blanchard, has shared recollections of her childhood health issues.
In a 2018 interview for Gypsy’s Revenge, he stated: “It just got worse and worse. Dee Dee started telling me, ‘They’re running tests. They’re trying to find out what’s going on with her. She’s got a lot of issues.’ She had some problems with her hearing, needed tubes in her ears, had reflux… so, at 7 or 8, she had the feeding tube put in.”
However, Gypsy’s 2024 memoir, ‘My Time to Stand’, now that I don’t have to pretend I can’t, contains inconsistent accounts.
In one section, she claims she was five when the tube was placed; in another, she recalls being nine.
Medical documentation most consistently supports the age of seven.
While public narratives often focus on the worsening of Gypsy’s condition, they rarely acknowledge that it worsened for both Gypsy and Dee Dee.
Dee Dee was caring for a child with numerous health concerns, undergoing continuous diagnostic testing to identify root causes. Meanwhile, Rod Blanchard’s life was reportedly improving during this period, transitioning from the shrimp industry to working offshore as a shipmaster, a role associated with significantly higher earnings.
Whether this distance from daily caregiving was intentional or circumstantial remains a question for broader discussion.
We have discussed it.
It was intentional. We wonder whose idea it was to get Rod shipped out to work in the middle of the ocean for a month at a time?
And why? We’ll get to that soon … Pimp. Juice.
Gypsy had her first ear tubes placed around age four, coinciding with the birth of her half-brother Dylan.
Ear tube placements are common in young children with chronic ear infections, especially those with 1q21.1 microdeletion syndrome, a chromosomal disorder associated with recurrent infections, developmental delays, and feeding issues.
Medical records confirm that Gypsy had multiple ear infections and perforations.
Her last recorded ENT evaluation was in February 2009, when removal of the ear tubes was recommended.
In interviews and documentaries, Gypsy has claimed, “My mother told the doctors I couldn’t eat,” (Mother Knows Best, 2017) and that the feeding tube was a way to “control what I’d eat” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017).
However, these statements are contradicted by her medical records, which clearly indicate: “She (Gypsy) was not able to consume enough calories by mouth to promote survival.”
This denotes insufficient caloric intake, not complete oral refusal – an important distinction.
Moreover, medical records show that Gypsy could eat soft foods, with favorites like mashed potatoes and pudding.
Dee Dee even discussed trying different ways to make mashed potatoes more palatable, indicating a continued encouragement of oral intake alongside tube feeding.
How many abusive mums try to jazz up mashed potato?
Rod Blanchard’s recollection that Gypsy could no longer eat solid food after the feeding tube placement (“She couldn’t have any physical hard foods,” The Prison Confessions, 2024) further contradicts his own claims that he took Gypsy to McDonald’s.
Medical documentation suggests that while Gypsy’s oral intake was limited, it was not eliminated.
The feeding tube was never intended to restrict Gypsy’s eating, it was necessary to supplement her nutrition due to her growth failure, which is visually evident in photos from the time.
Numerous photographs show Gypsy eating, often taken by the very person she accuses of falsely claiming she couldn’t.
This casts doubt on accusations of Dee Dee deliberately restricting food or fabricating conditions.
Rather than evidence of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, the records show a mother adhering to medical advice to ensure her child received proper nutrition.
Although Dr. Robert Steele, a physician involved in Gypsy’s care, later referred to the feeding tube as an “unfortunate decision” (The Prison Confessions, 2024), records show he was the attending provider at the time of her feeding tube replacement in September 2005.
Moreover, a 2025 FOIA release revealed that Gypsy – long framed as a helpless victim of medical abuse – sold unused medical supplies, including feeding tubes, via eBay under a secret email account. (Source: Myra.r71 ).
This raises ethical and factual questions about the retrospective victim narrative.
Gypsy’s underlying medical condition, 1q21.1 microdeletion syndrome, includes growth and feeding problems as known symptoms.
A May 3, 2004 letter from Coram Healthcare confirms that enteral feeding and nutrition monitoring had been provided since 2000.
By 2004, Gypsy was reportedly meeting 100% of U.S. dietary guidelines for vitamins, minerals, calories, and protein.
Although Gypsy had the stature of a 7-year-old at age 12, likely due to her then-undiagnosed chromosome disorder, she was not malnourished.
In that context, what Dr. Steele later called “unfortunate” may, in fact, have been a medically successful intervention.
In her 2024 book, ‘My Time to Stand’, Gypsy describes how the scars from her surgeries still affect her, particularly when enjoying “life’s simplest joys”, citing steak and oysters as examples.
While these statements may be emotionally resonant, they are removed from the documented reality of her medical situation at the time the surgeries occurred.
Furthermore, steak and oysters are luxury items far out of reach for many who work hard and live honestly.
If anything, they suggest that Gypsy’s quality of life has improved significantly, ironically, as a result of the very support system she now publicly discredits.
Count the blessings your mother is still providing you with, Gyp.
The placement of a feeding tube in Gypsy Rose Blanchard was not the result of deception, exaggeration, or abuse.
It was a medically warranted decision, made by a team of professionals after appropriate evaluations. The available medical documentation, along with context from genetic disorders and nutritional data, supports the conclusion that this was a necessary and ultimately effective intervention.
Hospital food is still food
In Gypsy’s 2024 ‘memoir’, ‘My Time to Stand’, she recounts how Dee Dee would tell her stories from her youth.
Tales of beauty pageants, childhood glories, moments when Dee Dee “felt truly special and pretty.”
Perfectly normal reminiscing, one might think.
But Gypsy interprets it as Dee Dee fishing for adoration, grasping for attention, even trying to make her jealous.
Jealous of her mother’s memories.
Gypsy writes: “It almost seemed like she was trying to make me feel even smaller—in my wheelchair, with no teeth, malnourished, androgynous… most of the time dressed as a boy.”
Let’s address this.
In fairness, Gypsy did have a face only a mother could love, and love it Dee Dee did. We’ll even grant her the ‘no attractiveness’ part (inside or out).
But malnourished? No.
Gypsy’s early ‘failure to thrive’ was likely the result of her chromosome disorder, not starvation.
Once diagnosed, she gained and maintained a healthy weight for her small frame and final height of 4’11”.
And ‘most of the time dressed as a boy’? Not quite.
Hundreds of images prove otherwise, many of them on our own site.
Below, you’ll find a small set of 2015 crime scene photos of her clothes, courtesy of Into The Weeds Podcast, followed by images of Gypsy looking anything but malnourished. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, Gyp, but some people are just born evil.
In Gypsy’s prison emails, released July 2025, we see a different obsession: her hair.
She wrote about cutting it when stressed, often after one of her many breakups with Ken Urker.
It’s always been assumed Dee Dee shaved her head to mimic the look of a chemotherapy patient and create a ‘boyish’ appearance. But now?
We’re wondering if it might have been tied to some sort of compulsive behavior in Gypsy herself.
Wouldn’t cutting her hair be a trauma trigger?
Just an observation.
And here’s the kicker: in a prison email dated May 24, 2019, Gypsy professes to miss the very mother she claims tried ‘to make me feel even smaller, in my wheelchair, with no teeth, malnourished, androgynous—with no attractiveness at all.’
This is only the time you looked like a boy, Gyp
Gypsy claims – delivered with her trademark sinister overtones – that medications were put through her “medieval weapon of torture” (otherwise known as a feeding tube).
In reality, that’s a perfectly normal procedure.
She goes further, insinuating that Dee Dee could have put anything through the tube while she was asleep, ironically implying that nothing sinister happened while she was awake. But you don’t just pour liquid straight into a feeding tube. Dee Dee would have had to attach an extension set, a fiddly procedure to pull off without waking a sleeping child.
In The Prison Confessions (2024), Gypsy seems shocked when told that her medical records—records she claims to have read—state she had a fear of eating.
“That’s ridiculous! I mean, is that something that my mum said?”
No. It was something a team of feeding specialists said.
When the interviewer confirms this, Gypsy doubles down:
“Wow! No, I never had a fear of eating.”
Again, medical professionals disagreed.
Gypsy also claims she spent six months as an inpatient in a New Orleans children’s hospital immediately after the feeding tube placement.
Logic dictates: if she didn’t need the tube, she wouldn’t have left six months later with one still in place.
Gypsy insists she had the feeding tube changed every six months until she was 24:
Interviewer: “So, twice a year for 15 years?”
Gypsy: “For 15 years.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024)
And she says each replacement was “pretty painful” because “they don’t put you under anaesthesia” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017).
But here’s the truth:
Only one doctor, Dr. Steele, the same one who called her tube “an unfortunate decision”, ever requested a replacement.
The tube was not regularly maintained or replaced every six months as she claims.
According to her medical records, replacements only occurred when it became infected, and infections happened when Gypsy didn’t clean it.
We could list every date Gypsy had her feeding tube changed.
We could list every time she said she didn’t need it.
But it’s more effective to let Gypsy dig her own hole.
In fact, Gypsy was almost 24 the last time she had it replaced – something we know from text messages to Nicholas Godejohn during his Greyhound trip to kill Dee Dee.
In those messages, she says she had just been to the ER for a replacement, and it wouldn’t need changing again for at least a year, if it got infected.
She even admits she could change it herself.
Not once in those messages does she complain about pain, question why she still had it, or say she wanted it removed.
Yet in later interviews, she claims she pleaded with Dee Dee: “Can you please get rid of the feeding tube? I don’t need it.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018)
In 2018, Gypsy stated: “I knew I didn’t need the feeding tube.” (Gypsy’s Truth and Lies, 2018).
If that’s true, why was she planning to keep it after Dee Dee’s death?
Why did she bring a spare one with her when fleeing the crime scene in 2015?
Yes, when she entered prison, Gypsy was quick to have the tube removed, and to film herself doing it.
That doesn’t prove she was an innocent victim forced to use something she didn’t need.
It only proves she was happy to remove it after being charged with first-degree murder.
In 2017, Kristy Blanchard puts on her best shocked face for the cameras in Mommy Dead and Dearest.
When Gypsy’s attorney and manager, Mike Stanfield, tells her about a doctor’s 2007 suspicion that Gypsy might be a victim of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, Kristy gasps: “What? Un-freaking-believable. And it would have kept going, ‘cause her mama was an insane, compulsive liar.”
But here’s the thing, Kristy herself had told Mike Stanfield about that suspicion two years earlier.
So, what’s with the theatrics?
And yes, you heard that right.
Kristy Blanchard, of all people, accusing someone else of being “an insane, compulsive liar.”
This from the same Kristy who, in 2018, confidently told OzarksFirst: “She [Gypsy] does have a lazy eye if she doesn’t wear her glasses all the time. That was since she was a little baby. Everything else was all a lie.”
Not everything, Kristy.
Gypsy’s own medical records confirm a condition both she and Kristy deny- asthma.
When Erin Lee Carr asks Gypsy in Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017), “What illnesses did your mother say you had?”, Gypsy includes asthma in a list of “made up” conditions.
But her medical records tell a different story: over a decade of appointments for asthma, rhinitis, and food allergies, with her last visit as late as November 26th, 2013, when she was 22 years old.
If asthma and rhinitis were made up, why did doctors spend more than ten years treating her for them?
Back in 2004 and 2005, Gypsy attended sleep clinics, monitored by trained medical staff, where mild asthma and controlled rhinitis were recorded.
Not by Dee Dee.
By medical specialists.
Who, exactly, are the “insane, compulsive liars” now?
Allergies? What allergies?
After her arrest in 2015, Detective Stan Hancock noted: “Gypsy said she drank some milk and forgot she was allergic to milk.”
Said no one with a real milk allergy, ever.
Allergies? What allergies?
Following surgery to remove her submandibular glands in 2005, Gypsy claims: “I started being allergic to the antibiotics that was trying to make me heal faster.” (ABC News, Jan 4, 2018).
Allergies? What allergies?
In The Prison Confessions (2024), she accuses Dee Dee of giving her too much of a medication she was “allergic” to, supposedly to cause a reaction Dee Dee could photograph as “proof” of a sugar allergy.
If that were true, the nutritionists treating Gypsy for failure to thrive wouldn’t have kept prescribing Pediasure, which contains both milk proteins and natural sugar, up to the day of her arrest.
Allergies? What allergies?
When police searched Gypsy’s backpack after her arrest, they found a packet of allergy medication.
The facts are straightforward: Gypsy had asthma. Gypsy had rhinitis. Gypsy had allergies.
The medical records say so.
The specialists say so.
The evidence says so.
In countless documentaries and interviews, Rod and Kristy Blanchard solemnly recall what they say Dee Dee told them about Gypsy’s short life expectancy:
Rod (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017): “Dee Dee told me she’s not going to live to be, you know, 18 years old. She may be an old teenager, that’s about it. You know, I was like, really? You know, it was shocking. It was disturbing.”
18.
Rod (Mother Knows Best, 2017): “Dee Dee told me she’s not going to live to be 20 years old.”
20.
Kristy (The Prison Confessions, 2024): “When Gypsy was around 8, Dee Dee called one day and said she was diagnosed with leukemia, and wouldn’t live beyond the age of 12.”
12.
Which was it?
12, 18, or 20?
Medical records show Dee Dee first told doctors Gypsy had leukemia when she was five years old, specifically ‘acute lymphocytic leukemia.’
A 2007 record notes “remission 10 years,” another lists the word chemotherapy.
But without access to pre-May 2000 records, we can’t prove, or disprove, Dee Dee’s claim.
FOIA files released by Into The Weeds Podcast in April 2025 include a 2015 crime scene image of a handwritten document, likely by Dee Dee, listing Gypsy’s alleged conditions: “She is confined to a wheelchair, must be fed through a tube, and suffers from asthma, epilepsy, and Faltemans anemia (a form of leukemia). She is vision and hearing impaired, microcephalic, and developmentally delayed.”
Faltemans anemia?
That doesn’t exist.
Fanconi anemia does, a rare inherited disorder that increases cancer risk and causes bone marrow failure, sometimes treated with a bone marrow transplant.
Melissa Moore, co-author of Gypsy’s 2024 books (‘Confessions on the Eve of Freedom’ and ‘My Time to Stand’), and executive producer of ‘Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up’ and ‘The Prison Confessions’, claims she found documentation of a bone marrow transplant in Gypsy’s medical records.
Care to share, Ms. Moore?
The records we were told were destroyed in Hurricane Katrina?
If you have them, why haven’t we seen them?
And if you don’t, why intimate you do?
We can’t say with certainty that Gypsy had Fanconi anemia.
But perhaps Melissa Moore can.
The ball’s in your court, Ms. Moore.
We expect you to leave it there.
In several records, Dee Dee mentions a 2001 car accident in which she ‘almost severed her foot’ and sustained a head injury, allegedly resulting in memory problems.
True? Maybe.
There are points in the records where she says she can’t remember all of Gypsy’s illnesses or when they began.
And in fairness, Gypsy did have a laundry list of legitimate health problems, some clearly diagnosed, others more ambiguous.
Awful for the patient, yes, but it fell entirely on Dee Dee to manage them while also searching for answers.
Rod was nowhere to be found. It’s not hard to imagine it was overwhelming.
Gypsy’s date of birth does shift in the records – sometimes 1991, sometimes 1992, sometimes 1995.
In one instance, two different birth dates appear on two separate medical records from the same day, April 4th, 2007.
But there’s no discernible pattern here, nothing to suggest deliberate deception. As much as the Gypsy train would love us to think otherwise.
According to Rod Blanchard’s second wife, Kristy, Gypsy attended school for only a short time: “When Gypsy was old enough to attend school, she was excited. I don’t even think she went the whole year.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024)
Kristy says Dee Dee pulled Gypsy out because she was “afraid they wouldn’t give her her medication right.”
But the more likely explanation?
Dee Dee chose to homeschool Gypsy for legitimate reasons, chief among them, her many health conditions.
One of Dee Dee’s friends recalls that as a teenager, Gypsy could read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy and discuss the symbolism in the films.
Great job, Dee Dee.
Yet the public story shifts.
In 2017, Dr. Phil asked Gypsy if she remembered going to school –
Gypsy: “I’ve never been to school.”
Dr. Phil: “Did you ever go to kindergarten?”
Gypsy: “No, Sir.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017)
At Gypsy’s pre-trial hearing on July 5, 2016, she answered differently –
Q: “How far did you go in school?”
Gypsy: “Um, about the second grade.”
Perhaps Dr. Marc Feldman and Dr. Phil might like to diagnose that contradiction.
In March 2025, a sharp-eyed Reddit user spotted a detail – the dress Gypsy wears in one photograph matches the school uniform at Holy Rosary Catholic School in Larose, not far from where Rod lived.
The handwritten document mentioned earlier, the one listing Gypsy’s supposed health conditions, also claims Rod abandoned Dee Dee and Gypsy shortly after Gypsy’s birth, contributing nothing financially.
It goes further, alleging Rod refused to pay for homeschooling because Dee Dee insisted on Christian teachings, which he opposed.
While we can’t prove the claims outright, court records (covered later) confirm Dee Dee did take Rod to court for child support, unpaid alimony, and medical expenses.
And yes, Dee Dee was a grifter.
But deadbeat dad Rod might want to ask himself why.
Not content with implying Dee Dee denied Gypsy an education, Rod also claims Dee Dee wouldn’t allow him alone time with his daughter: “She wouldn’t even leave her with me for an hour or anything, so she was with her all the time.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018)
Could that have anything to do with Rod’s substance abuse issues? The same ones Kristy revealed to Fancy Macelli, earning herself a scolding from Rod for talking. (The Good Wives’ Network).
Mothers keep sick children close. It’s called maternal instinct. And no sensible parent, whether the child has medical needs or not, would leave them in the care of someone with a history of alcohol and substance abuse.
Dee Dee couldn’t win. Damned if she did. Damned because she didn’t. Now we know why she didn’t. We got you, Dee Dee.
In December 2023, Gypsy shifted her story yet again, claiming she only ever attended kindergarten (My Time to Stand).
And in a prison email dated May 31, 2020, Rod told Gypsy he was “disappointed” to learn that her then-boyfriend (and, as of Sept 2025, current partner) Ken Urker had used cocaine. Rod also admitted he “did his fair share” of drugs in his younger years. We can only wonder how much that shaped Dee Dee’s choices.
Michelle Dean, executive producer of the hit 2019 Hulu drama ‘The Act’, had already stumbled on the real truth of this story back in 2016. In her BuzzFeed article of August 19, 2016, she wrote: “She (Dee Dee) explained the increasingly bewildering array of problems to Rod by saying that Gypsy had a chromosomal defect. Many of Gypsy’s health issues, she claimed, stemmed from that one thing.”
Dean framed it as a ‘claim.’ It wasn’t. Dee Dee was telling the truth.
But fame, fortune, and selective storytelling proved far more valuable than truth, and the truth was the first casualty.
For the record: Kristy Blanchard does not approve of The Act.
Like, Kristy Blanchard really does not approve of The Act.
In an April 4, 2019 interview with Kenny Herzog for Vulture, Kristy said: “When we first talked about (The Act), she (Michelle Dean) had told me she was going to talk to the producers because she wanted us to be included. She called me a couple of days after the fact and said the producers – and she didn’t say who they were – did not want us to interact because I might tell whoever’s playing our parts that, ‘Oh, you’re walking wrong.’ And I’m like, ‘Seriously?’”
And we’re like… seriously?
Kristy hadn’t been involved in most of Gypsy’s life, why would she be ‘included’ in telling it?
Or worse, put herself forward as some bottomless well of insight?
Kristy went on: “She (Michelle Dean) had told me that whatever she made, it didn’t matter what it was, she was gonna send us 50 percent of what she made and she was gonna keep 50 percent. And then a couple of days later… she told me she talked to the producers and they didn’t want to interact with us.”
When asked why she’d even want to be deeply involved in yet another televised retelling of the case, Kristy gave the noble-sounding answer that it was about getting “the whole truth” out there: “We are not going to fabricate anything, and if Gypsy’s truth can help save a life, then it’s worth it, and she wants the truth out there.” The irony?
The ‘whole truth’ is exactly what Gypsy herself would have least wanted ‘out there.’
What Kristy seemed to want was not truth. It was money.
In 2019, Gypsy released a statement from prison: “I am unable to watch The Act. However, I feel it is very unfair and unprofessional that producers and co-producer Michelle Dean have used my actual name and story without my consent, and the life rights to do so. Therefore, there will be legal action taken against the show’s creators. I want to share my story and bring awareness about Munchausen by proxy… No child should ever be abused, especially from their parent.” (Bustle, March 19th, 2019)
Have people lost their minds?
This is Dee Dee Blanchard’s story.
Dee Dee is no longer in a position to assert ‘life rights’ to anything told about her.
Why should the person who planned, orchestrated, and participated in her murder be able to profit from that act?
You don’t see Nicholas Godejohn demanding payment every time his story is told. Incorrectly.
Gypsy’s many diagnosed health issues entitled Dee Dee to Social Security and disability benefits, on top of whatever (if anything) Rod was actually paying in child support.
Rod says: “I promised her (Dee Dee) I would always pay her child support along with alimony, and cover all medical expenses and health insurance for Gypsy. I paid Dee Dee until the day she died.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018)
We think Rod Blanchard should now be barred from using the word promise.
Because where’s the proof?
Are we really supposed to believe that a father was paying child support for his 23-year-old adult daughter and alimony to his ex-wife of almost 25 years?
The only ‘evidence’ comes from a scrap of paper – shown top right – which could have been written by anyone, at any time.
Actual evidence tells a different story: Dee Dee had to take Rod to court for unpaid child support, unpaid alimony, and unpaid medical bills.
Court records show he was on his final warning to appear, facing possible jail time if he didn’t. (Images courtesy of @withoutacrystalball).
Rod claims he paid $1,200 a month in child support.
Kristy’s close friend puts it at $1,000.
The real number?
Official court documents show $250 per month.
The same records reveal Rod owed $1,300 in back alimony and thousands more in unpaid medical expenses for Gypsy.
And the award for Father of the Year goes to… absolutely not Rod Blanchard Jr.
Medicaid covered most of Gypsy’s care, but Dee Dee expected Rod to pay what Medicaid wouldn’t.
Rod claims he offered to put Gypsy on his private health plan, but we’re somehow meant to believe Dee Dee, who monetized everything she could, refused this golden opportunity.
Rod also claims Dee Dee “scammed” him out of $150,000 between ‘unnecessary medical expenses’ and child support ‘after she turned 18.’ (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018)
Let’s hope Rod and Kristy managed to claw back some of those ‘scammed’ dollars by exploiting Dee Dee’s brutal murder.
And lest we forget, Rod was also taken to court for failing to pay child support for his second daughter, Nicolette.
One wonders what Kristy had to say about that.
FOIA documents obtained by Mayra.r71 in June 2025 confirm Dee Dee and Gypsy were both receiving disability benefits from the SSA at the time of Dee Dee’s murder.
Initially, SSA planned a joint disability fraud investigation.
After Dee Dee’s death, they closed the case against her, but when asked about pursuing Gypsy, they declined.
Reason?
Gypsy ‘was not the one who made the application.’
Once again, adult Gypsy sidestepped the consequences.
Rod told Dr. Phil: “The relationship just, it did a 180, and we started fighting, well, not fighting… But she just kind of hounded me down, and taking me back and forth for child support… I tried supporting her financially the best I could, which I guess, to her, was still, it’s never enough, so she was taking me to court for additional medical bills… the court ordered that I’ll be obligated to provide.” (The Killer Thorn of Gypsy Rose, 2019)
Exactly.
It wasn’t Dee Dee being ‘spiteful.’
It was a judge ordering Rod to pay for the care of the sick daughter he’d abandoned.
What would Rod have preferred?
Dee Dee just roll over and die?
Guess what, Rod, She did.
In a March 15, 2023 prison email, Gypsy wrote that Dee Dee worked in a bar when Gypsy was a toddler and later did “odd jobs” like photo restoration. Odd, considering Rod allegedly supported Dee Dee “until the day she died”—about $2,800 per month in 2025 dollars—plus Social Security and food stamps. That’s a comfortable living for a single mum.
We don’t know many mothers who’d leave a sick child to pull pints unless money was tight.
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" (Winston Churchill)
In Mother Knows Best (2017), Gypsy says she was about 7 years old when she got into a motorcycle accident with her grandfather, Claude Sr.
She said she scraped her knee, Dee Dee took her to the hospital, and she was given a wheelchair. According to Gypsy, Dee Dee told her it would be ‘forever.’
Fast-forward to 2024, and the story has… evolved.
Now Gypsy claims she was ‘like, 5 years old’ when the accident happened, and that Dee Dee ‘turned it into a bigger event than it was.’ This time her leg was ‘put in a brace.’ In another 2024 interview, Gypsy recalls her mother simply wheeling in a chair one day and bluntly ordering her to use it.
In her 2024 ‘memoir’ (‘My Time to Stand’), she repeats the age-five version. That’s already two different accounts. But under oath at Nicholas Godejohn’s 2018 trial, Gypsy told the jury she’d been in a wheelchair since ‘probably about 8 years old.’ According to the new, post-prison Gypsy, the wheelchair arrived a full two years before the accident ever happened.
One event.
Three different ages.
Good Lord.
We’d like to say you couldn’t make this up, but apparently, Gypsy Rose Blanchard can.
Rod Blanchard isn’t much clearer.
In 2018, he says he first saw Gypsy in a wheelchair at age 7 and knew she could still walk: “I would ask Dee Dee, ‘What’s wrong with her legs?’ She told me muscular dystrophy… That is terrifying to hear about your child.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018)
A year later, Rod sounds less certain: “I heard from her family that Gypsy could walk and I was confused… but the relationship was so fragile I didn’t do my due diligence.” (The Killer Thorn of Gypsy Rose, 2019)
By August 2024, in a TikTok Live with Fancy Macelli (The Good Wives’ Network), Rod’s memory has slipped again –
Fancy: “When was the last time you saw your daughter walk?”
Rod: “She was probably about… 3 or 4 years old.”
Fancy: “So from 3 years old you never saw her walk?”
Rod: “Not that I recall.”
Not that he recalls.
A father who can’t remember if his daughter last walked at 3, 4, or 7.
There’s even a photo of Rod, Dee Dee, and a very much upright, unassisted Gypsy at around age 7.
That might help jog the old “absent father” memory.
Asked why he never sought visitation rights, Rod shrugged: “I was busy working. Life, you know.” (Source: @ivoryroseknows, 7 Aug 2024)
To the dads who put their kids ahead of ‘life, you know’, we salute you.
Bobby Pitre, Dee Dee’s nephew and serial tattoo-parlour promoter, also weighed in: “We all knew she could walk. We’d play, we’d hang out… Dee Dee would tell her that her legs were going to give her trouble, or that they’d collapse, and she had to go soak them in the tub.” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017)
As for how old Gypsy was when he last saw her walk, Bobby has his own creative timeline.
First it was 8.
Then 7.
Then 4.
Bobby Pitre had been chasing media attention long before Dee Dee’s murder.
The chance he’d been waiting for finally arrived in 2015.
“Hello, my name’s Bobby Pitre, and I was Dee Dee Blanchard’s favourite nephew.”
No, Bobby. We won’t back off.
Bobby, 2017: “I wish Dee Dee would come back to life so I could kill that bitch as slow as possible.” (Crime Online, 27th June 2017).
Bobby, 2019: “She was pretty fucking crazy. She deserved to die.” (Newsweek, 14th Feb 2019).
For the record, movement disorders from muscle stiffness or weakness can be symptoms of a chromosome disorder.
And one medical record, dated 23 Aug 2000, suggests the motorcycle accident may have happened when Gypsy was 9 years old.
But in a family where no one can keep their lies straight, who can say?
In some interviews, Rod Blanchard remembers Dee Dee as ‘the best mum in the world.’“There’s no way I can do what you’re doing. You have a sick child. It’s constantly 24/7 taking care of her. I always praised her—told her ‘good job.’” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017)
In others, the tone changes entirely: “All the visits, Dee Dee had to be there the whole time. Something never felt right about it. Dee Dee was so controlling.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018)
Firstly, ‘There’s no way I can do what you’re doing is not what the mother of a sick child wants to hear from someone who allegedly wants to spend time alone with their child. Secondly, this was during Rod’s own drug and alcohol abuse years.
Maybe it wasn’t Dee Dee that ‘never felt right.’
Kristy Blanchard echoes the great mother version: “We thought, great mom, taking care of Gypsy. I told Rod so many times, ‘I don’t know how she does it.’ Never saw red flags.” (The Killer Thorn of Gypsy Rose, 2019).
On June 16th, 2015, just days after Dee Dee’s body was found, Kristy introduced herself on Facebook as Gypsy’s ‘grieving stepmother’ and tagged a local news station in the post.
She hadn’t seen Gypsy in 11 years.
In 2017, when Gypsy was asked to describe Dee Dee in one word, she didn’t choose “abusive.” She laughed and said: “Um… unique.” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017)
Pressed again, she tried: “A little overprotective.” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017)
Still not ‘abusive.’
A year later, she admitted: “When I was younger it was a lot better, just because she was like a best friend to me. We used to do things together all the time, movies, park, the zoo.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018)
And who was it who gave Gypsy those happy childhood memories?
The one constant in her life.
Her mother. Dee Dee Blanchard. The grass wasn’t greener, Gyp.
On June 9, 1997, Dee Dee’s beloved mother, Emma, died at the age of 59.
Her brother Evans recalled: “When my mum passed away, Dee Dee took it hard … Her world came crumbling down.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024)
Bobby Pitre offered his own diagnosis: “I think ever since my grandmother died, Dee Dee kind of went off the deep end.” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017)
A friend who said Dee Dee and Emma “adored each other” posted after Dee Dee’s murder that Emma’s death triggered a “mental collapse.”
But Laura Pitre, Claude Sr.’s second wife, painted a darker picture.
She accused Dee Dee of neglecting her ailing mother: “When Emma was sick, Dee Dee left her dirty and asking for food… That’s evil.” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017)
Kristy Blanchard took this further, accusing Dee Dee of killing her own mother by starvation.
In 2024, while filmed visiting Emma’s grave, Kristy ominously recounted: “The day her mum died, Dee Dee was in the house… starving her. I asked her sister, ‘Do you think Dee Dee had anything to do with your mum’s death?’ And she said, ‘Now I wonder.’ That’s how evil she was.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024)
Arguably, the word evil could also apply to monetizing a graveside visit for the cameras.
No medical evidence has ever supported Kristy’s accusation.
No police report was filed.
No doctor raised a concern.
No coroner found the death suspicious.
And yet, 27 years later, Kristy “confesses” she had doubts.
If Emma truly had been starved, would none of Dee Dee’s five siblings, nor Claude Sr., have noticed, or intervened?
Even Gypsy spoke of her grandmother with affection.
In a prison email dated August 10, 2019, she wrote with tenderness, making no mention of foul play.
Less than two years later, another email suggested Emma may have purposely made Dee Dee sick as a child, mirroring what Dee Dee allegedly did to Gypsy.
Where did that respect go, Gyp?
Straight out the window, alongside the promise of a book deal.
Claude Pitre Sr., Dee Dee’s father, married Laura Mae Serigny, a hospital housekeeper, about a year after Emma’s death.
Let’s just say… it had been on the cards for quite a while.
Quite a while. Bobby Pitre sets the stage: “Dee Dee was very upset about that happening.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024).
Kristy Blanchard – still no blood relation to anyone central to this story- adds her dramatic flair: “Dee Dee had a vengeful side. If she wanted to do something to you, she went for the jugular.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024). In Kristy’s case, we sincerely hope so.
Laura Pitre claimed: “She (Dee Dee) was putting some poison, (allegedly) the weed killer, Round Up, in my food. The same thing she had put in the plant.” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017)
Claude Sr. backed her up: “She stayed in bed nine months after that. She couldn’t get up. I didn’t think she was going to make it.”
According to Claude, Gypsy later told him Dee Dee was putting ‘vitamins’ in Laura’s food.
Vitamins that, conveniently, were actually weed killer.
Gypsy, aged seven or eight at the time, added from prison: “She (Dee Dee) hated Laura. It would be in her character to do.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024)
That’s an incredible statement coming from an actual convicted murderer.
Bobby Pitre, moonlighting as both coroner and psychiatrist, declared of Laura’s 2018 death:
“I guarantee you it had a lot to do with the poisoning from that Round Up.”
A decade after the alleged poisoning?
A very slow death indeed.
Bobby also provided a ‘no doubt’ psychological profile of an aunt he hadn’t seen in 17 years: “Real weird girl… I would think she’s bipolar, no doubt. Multiple personalities, perhaps. Definitely an evil person.” (Mommy Dead and Dearest, 2017)
For context: Bobby was born in 1976.
He was 16 when Gypsy was born.
For him to have formed such hard-and-fast diagnoses, he’d have needed to spend several formative years hanging around Dee Dee and her young daughter.
Spoiler: he didn’t.
Kristy Blanchard would later admit (2025): “Emma and Laura hated each other,” …further conceding Laura wasn’t exactly a saint. According to Kristy, Laura once stole a photo from Dee Dee’s hospital locker, cut Dee Dee’s face into pieces, threw them away, and blamed Kristy for it.
And people wonder why Dee Dee moved away from Louisiana.
In a 2024 podcast, Gypsy claimed: “My mother suffered from a lot of mental illness. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia… she used to say she heard voices and saw shapes.” (Nick Viall, Jan 8, 2024)
There’s no record of Dee Dee ever being diagnosed with any mental illness.
If there were, the Blanchards would have paraded it years ago.
As with the allegations over Emma’s death, no police reports were ever filed to back up the claim that Dee Dee tried to murder Laura.
Surely the doctors treating Laura during her nine months in bed, or the coroner after her death, would have noticed signs of poisoning?
That’s two people now that Dee Dee allegedly “tried to kill.”
And yet Rod and Kristy Blanchard were perfectly content to let her raise Rod’s child, largely without their involvement.
Why?
Because Dee Dee Blanchard never tried to kill anyone.
After a nine-year on-again/off-again saga, Rod and Kristy Blanchard finally tied the knot on March 15th, 1999.
A source from the Bayou tells us Dee Dee was Kristy’s maid of honour, claiming she is in the wedding photo, standing just to the right of the radiant (though apparently not ‘vengeful’) bride.
Rod’s daughter Nicolette was there too, alongside her mother, Jill, and Jill’s new husband (the man who would later adopt Nicolette).
Kristy’s son Dylan attended.
And, on the far left, another very potentially significant person made an appearance.
We’ll just leave that one hanging.
One. Big. Happy. Family.
Not according to Kristy Blanchard.
In her version, Dee Dee didn’t attend at all.
Kristy claims Dee Dee tried to stop the wedding by insisting she and Rod were still married.
In a 2024 interview, Kristy insisted: “She tried to do everything to ruin our relationship.”
By 2025, the story had escalated: “I told Father Dean to lock all the doors in the church because if she walked in it’d be the first time a bitch got her ass kicked in a church.” (Source: Morgan Allena).
Yet there Dee Dee allegedly is, standing beside the bride, smiling for the camera.
By invitation only.
Two years later, in 2001, Kristy and Rod’s daughter Mia was born.
Unlike his first two children, Rod somehow managed to make time to be an active presence in Kristy’s children’s lives
Gypsy claims she was about nine when Laura Pitre threw her and Dee Dee out of the house she shared with Laura and Claude Sr., after Dee Dee allegedly tried to murder Laura, Claude Sr.’s former mistress (sorry, current wife).
According to Gypsy, this eviction, “Gave her (Dee Dee) free range to create new illnesses for me, have me put on more medication, make things worse.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024)
What a load of baloney.
Gypsy was fifteen when she actually left Louisiana.
Rod lived in Louisiana.
In her 2024 memoir, ‘I didn’t write this so I’m not accountable for anything memoir’ (My Time to Stand’), the story morphs.
Now the eviction supposedly happened because Dee Dee’s eldest brother and his family felt they had more right to Emma’s old home than her favourite child. That sounds far more Pitre than poison.
Rod’s version is a slow drift: first Thibodaux (45 minutes away), then New Orleans (a couple hours).
“As she (Gypsy) got older, they moved further and further away. It got harder and harder to see her. I’d go visit, spend a couple of hours, we’d start building a little bond… then it would be three or four months before we could see each other again.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018).
Three or four months between visits says plenty about Rod’s priorities.
Rod offers two explanations for Dee Dee’s moves –
To stop him bonding with Gypsy: “It was like Dee Dee was never letting us build that father-daughter relationship.”
And,
To hide abuse: “There was nobody there to question that anymore.” (Mommy Dead And Dearest, 2017)
There wasn’t much questioning going on before they moved, maybe because there was nothing to question.
Or maybe, just maybe, Dee Dee was escaping a different problem entirely.
In a 2025 TikTok live, Kristy Blanchard let something slip: “We didn’t know she (Dee Dee) had a police report on Rod in Missouri – in fear. When I read that she left Louisiana because she was in fear of her ex-husband, I told the cop, ‘That should’ve been my name on there, ’cause her and I got into it all the time.’” (Source: Morgan Allena).
A police report against Rod.
Frequent blow-ups with Kristy.
Suddenly, Dee Dee’s relocations make a lot more sense.
Rod also claims Dee Dee turned Gypsy against him, citing a McDonald’s trip where: “She was so scared of me, she was shaking.”
Funny – photos of them together show a smiling Gypsy, not a trembling one.
If she shook at all, it might’ve been from seeing Rod’s own battered-looking face.
Rod’s ‘I did the best I could’ narrative doesn’t hold –
“The first five years were hard… they lived locally, not far… we did some visits…”
Then the royal we slips in:
“We always stayed in communication… physical visits…”
They moved when Gypsy was nine.
Rod was already absent long before Dee Dee and Gypsy left town.
His real ‘bonding’ phase didn’t begin until Gypsy was 23, under media spotlights and paid interview fees.
After Dee Dee’s murder, neighbours saw Rod and Kristy ’emptying’ her home.
Claudia and Dorla apparently approved, until they realised what little they got.
A friend of Dee Dee’s sister reported: “Rod and Kristy came with a U-Haul and got what they wanted for ‘Gypsy.’ Claudia got a moo-moo and a picture. That’s it.” (Source: Ivory Rose Knows, 8th Aug 2024)
Kristy insists she only took Gypsy’s belongings and things they’d bought for her.
But if it wasn’t ‘a lot,’ why the U-Haul?
Souvenirs?
Trophies?
Evidence?
Like vultures at a carcass.
All of them.
And in December 2024, Gypsy quietly rewrote the eviction story again, this time she was five, not nine, and it was no longer Claude Sr.’s house, but Dee Dee’s brother Claude’s. (Source: My Time to Stand’).
In a letter presented to the court during one of Gypsy’s pre-trial hearings, Dee Dee’s sister Dorla admits she always knew Gypsy could walk.
Even here, the accounts start to split. (Source: The Good Wives’ Network).
Dorla describes an afternoon when Dee Dee left Gypsy in the family’s care to run to the store.
The moment Dee Dee was out of sight, Gypsy supposedly leapt out of her wheelchair and began bouncing on a trampoline. Spotting Dee Dee’s return, Dorla says Gypsy collapsed ‘like a ragdoll.’
Dorla claims Dee Dee marched over, yelled at Gypsy, yanked her off the trampoline, bundled her into the car, and drove away before ‘we could ask her any questions.’
Because of course, asking questions is apparently the rarest sport in this family.
Dee Dee’s brother Evans also remembers the trampoline episode, but in his version, Dee Dee simply said, ‘Don’t you know she’s crippled?’ to which Evans replied, ‘We all seen different.’
Then, he says, Dee Dee put Gypsy back in the wheelchair and rolled her into the house for the rest of the day.
So… Dorla sees a dramatic getaway in a car.
Evans sees a quiet roll back into the living room.
Same incident, different movie.
Can anyone in this family keep a story straight for more than 30 seconds?
Dorla also recalls a ‘surprise’ visit from Dee Dee and nine-year-old Gypsy while Dorla and her sister Claudia were on a beach vacation.
Dee Dee, claiming Gypsy had ‘no feeling in her legs,’ let Claudia carry her piggyback along the sand.
Later, when Dee Dee popped out for clothes, Gypsy allegedly began jumping from bed to bed, stopping cold when Dee Dee returned.
And again, nobody asked a thing.
We have a question, though.
On 3 May 2024- coincidentally, Dee Dee’s birthday- Gypsy gave a beachside interview claiming she had never been to a beach.
Ever.
Her sisters would beg to differ.
The photographic evidence disagrees too.
We have:
The beach she didn’t visit on a family trip.
The other beach she didn’t visit on another trip.
The beach Dee Dee’s friend definitely didn’t take her to, where Gypsy definitely didn’t make sand angels.
In 2024, Gypsy also claimed she’d never been on a swing. We’ve got multiple childhood photos that say otherwise.
Laura Pitre paints the picture of Dee Dee as a fugitive on the run: “The minute she’d have set foot on the Bayou, the law would have arrested her. She had made bad cheques in Slidell. Bad cheques in New Orleans.” (Mommy Dead And Dearest, 2017)
Her father, Claude Snr, adds for good measure: “No matter where she went, she was doing all kinds of stuff.” (Mommy Dead And Dearest, 2017)
The family chorus doesn’t stop there.
Dorla pushes the ‘Outlaw Dee Dee Blanchard’ narrative further: “She wasn’t a stranger to the law. She’d shoplift. She was wanted for writing bad cheques. She stole from many a people. She would get so many credit cards and then eat my dead mother’s name and run up the bills like crazy. She was going to do anything, anyway, anyhow to get her way.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018)
Or maybe – wild thought here – she was financially supporting herself and her child while the dad was M.I.A.?
Evans chimes in: “She had maxed out 2 of my mum’s credit cards after my mum had been dead for over a year.” (Gypsy’s Revenge, 2018).
And then there’s Bobby Pitre, with his trademark blend of drama and overreach: “She opened up credit cards in my dad’s name, my grandpa’s name. Ran up crazy bills. Supposedly, America’s Most Wanted was looking for this girl.” (Mommy Dead And Dearest, 2017).
Somebody please rein this ‘nephew’ in before the next tall tale involves a high-speed boat chase and the FBI.
Kristy Blanchard, never one to miss a swing, adds: “There was an active warrant out for her arrest in Lafourche Parish for writing bad cheques.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024)
Because clearly 17 stab wounds weren’t punishment enough.
For the record, while Dee Dee’s cheque fraud isn’t admirable, we still rank aggravated burglary and carrying an unlicensed firearm as more serious offences.
Not naming names, of course. Bob. Just saying.
And speaking of Kristy, she seems to have a running commentary on Dee Dee’s every breath.
One day, perhaps she’ll grace us with the reason Rod thought he was headed for juvenile detention in high school.
Or better yet, a list of Rod’s “drugs of choice,” so we can understand exactly what Dee Dee might have been fleeing.
Was it marijuana and acid, or are we talking crack and heroin?
A friend of Claudia (Dee Dee’s sister) recently went live on social media to reveal: “According to Claudia, Dee Dee did not start conning and scamming until she met Rod.” (Source: Ivory Rose Knows, 8th August 2024)
The same friend claimed Rod’s father had been arrested for burglary and robbery.
We’ve seen the record—it’s colourful.
This is what happens when you polish your halo while planting a crown of thorns on someone else.
Eventually the halo slips, the truth crawls out, and people start asking the questions you didn’t want them to.
If ever a picture painted a thousand words, it’s the one of Dee Dee, Gypsy, and Rod together.
That is not your standard ‘separated couple’ snapshot, unless it’s perfectly normal for your ex to gently caress your ear while you sit there looking like you’ve just been handed a winning lottery ticket.
If you didn’t know the backstory, you could mistake it for a portrait of a young, committed, loving family.
In 2024, Gypsy – indirectly, but very directly – addressed the online chatter about this photo in one of the two steaming piles of literature she sanctioned, co-authored by Melissa Moore, better known as the daughter of the “Happy Face Killer.”
Out of the hundreds of Dee Dee’s photographs scooped up by Rod and Kristy Blanchard after Dee Dee’s death, this was one of the few Gypsy personally chose for inclusion in the book ‘Conversations on the Eve of Freedom’ (or, more accurately, ‘weekly prison phone calls over five years’).
And emails. We’d call that ‘choice’ damage limitation.
Gypsy suggests Kristy took the photo.
Coming from a known liar, that only made the fire burn brighter.
Lie or not, Dee Dee was undeniably attractive in her younger years.
Maybe Rod gave the relationship another go.
And another.
And another.
And another.
Gypsy’s 2024 selective-memory ‘memoir’, ‘My Time to Stand’ that ‘couldn’t-keep-it-in-his-pants’ Rod told her he only slept with Dee Dee three times.
Please.
We’ve seen the photos of young Dee Dee.
She was a cracker.
We cannot imagine randy Rod rolling over with a ‘Not tonight, Josephine.’
Gypsy also claims Dee Dee and Rod divorced in 1992.
Court documents say 1994.
According to one of Gypsy’s prison emails, Dee Dee found love again when Gypsy was five, with a man named Mark who even fixed up a room for them in his home. But Gypsy didn’t like Mark. Because he wasn’t Rod. So she spat on him.
And that was the end of that.
Perfectly normal behaviour for a five-year-old, right?
As far as we know, Dee Dee never had another romantic partner for the rest of her life.
Even at five, the daddy issues had already pulled into the station.
Before boarding the train, firmly embodied in their owner, 18 years later.
