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"Dee Dee put Gypsy through a living hell. In my eyes, she (Gypsy) didn't really do a crime" (Bobby Pitre, 2017)
After leaving either Claude Sr.’s or Claude Jr.’s house – Gypsy herself can’t recall whose – Dee Dee and Gypsy spent time in Thibodaux and Slidell, Louisiana, moving from place to place.
Managing this constant relocation was no small task for a single parent caring for a child with ongoing medical concerns.
In October 2000, they visited Dr. Garcia at Tulane Hospital in New Orleans.
Dee Dee’s stated concern was Gypsy’s muscle weakness in her legs, which Dee Dee suspected might be muscular dystrophy. Gypsy arrived in a wheelchair.
Dr. Garcia ordered both an EMG and an MRI scan.
On October 27th, MRI images of Gypsy’s spine (lumbar, thoracic, and cervical) and brain were taken.
Four days later, on October 31st, she underwent an EMG to measure the electrical activity of her muscles and nerves.
All tests returned normal, suggesting that muscular dystrophy was unlikely.
Still, Dr. Garcia ordered a muscle biopsy, a standard next step when investigating neuromuscular disorders, as well as a second MRI.
The decision to continue testing despite normal EMG and MRI results suggests Dr. Garcia believed there was an issue, even if the cause was not yet clear.
On January 31st, 2001, a small sample of Gypsy’s right thigh muscle was taken.
The results showed no muscular dystrophy but did reveal slight atrophy – thinning of the muscle – diagnosed as Type II Fiber Atrophy.
This was attributed in her medical records to ‘purposeful disuse of her limbs,’ meaning that Gypsy was physically able to walk but was choosing not to, resulting in mild muscle wasting.
The biopsy results clearly ruled out muscular dystrophy.
Nevertheless, this test has frequently been presented in media narratives as evidence of Dee Dee’s alleged medical abuse.
In one interview, Dr. Phil told Gypsy the biopsy had been done to test for muscular dystrophy.
Where do we even begin with Dr. Phil?
No Dr. Phil, the actual medical record lists the reason as: Clinical history – Bilateral leg weakness.
During their exchange, Dr. Phil asked: “Did you ever know what the results were?”
Gypsy replied: “No Sir.”
Moments later, she contradicted herself, claiming the results came back as normal, a detail Dr. Phil did not challenge.
When asked whether Dee Dee knew the results were normal, Gypsy said: “I think that she did know that. If a doctor wouldn’t give her the results that she wanted, or say what she wanted them to say, she would switch to a different doctor.” (Mother Knows Best, 2017).
This, too, does not align with the records.
Over 23 years, Gypsy consistently saw the same small group of primary care providers, aside from the many physicians she encountered during emergency room visits.
Despite the biopsy findings, Dr. Garcia proceeded with the second MRI, likely because he still suspected a legitimate problem.
On April 2nd, 2001, Dee Dee and Gypsy returned to Tulane Hospital for the scan, which again came back normal.
It’s possible that Dee Dee’s reluctance to accept the results stemmed from knowing just how much time Gypsy actually spent in her wheelchair, or from the fact that Gypsy continued to complain of leg weakness, or perhaps from the reality that a diagnosis of ‘slight atrophy’ is not exactly a clean bill of health.
Another possibility comes from Gypsy’s own 2014 admission to Nicholas Godejohn that she was the one who faked her paralysis.
Records do not show is a mother knowingly placing a fully able-bodied child in a wheelchair for life.
They show a concerned parent looking for answers.
A home video recorded by Dee Dee shows a 5-year-old Gypsy at a children’s cheerleading session. While the other children stand upright, practicing their routine with enthusiasm, Gypsy sits on the floor, looking fatigued and somewhat bewildered.
In another video from around the same age, she is shown standing one moment, then suddenly collapsing to the ground the next.
These moments are a brief glimpse into what Dee Dee may have witnessed on a regular basis. Gypsy’s so-called ‘tired legs.’
Fatigue and muscle weakness are hallmark symptoms of muscular dystrophy, so it is hardly surprising that Dee Dee suspected the condition early on.
And even when muscular dystrophy was eventually ruled out, she continued seeking answers, as any responsible parent would.
Spinal muscle atrophy and related conditions can lead to hypotonia, a state of low muscle tone involving reduced muscle strength.
Hypotonia is often a feature of genetic disorders and is associated with tiring easily, difficulty maintaining posture, challenges in walking or balancing, and, in some cases, feeding difficulties due to weak oral and throat muscles.
Hypotonia is also one of the possible features of 1q21.1 microdeletion syndrome, the chromosome disorder Gypsy is now known to have.
In 2001, however, the technology to test for 1q21.1 microdeletion syndrome did not exist.
That diagnosis would not come for another decade.
What can be said is that Dee Dee never stopped trying to determine what was wrong with her child.
That is not indicative of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy; it is indicative of persistence.
While ‘muscular dystrophy’ appears in Gypsy’s medical history following the muscle biopsy results, it is as often implied as it is explicitly stated.
Gypsy’s medical records include:
- ‘Paralysis of her lower extremities’ (July 2002)
- ‘Unclassified congenital neuromuscular disease’ (January 2004)
- ‘Paraplegia’ (February 2004)
- ‘Neuromuscular weakness due to an undetermined etiology’ (May 2004)
- ‘Unspecified neuromuscular disease’ (February 2005)
- ‘Some form of muscular weakness or dystrophy’ (March 2005)
- ‘History of a neuromuscular disorder, not otherwise specified’ (April 2005)
Interestingly, in May 2005 Gypsy’s records also note ‘mild restrictive lung disease evidenced by a relatively low maximum voluntary ventilation.’
Once Dee Dee and Gypsy relocated to Missouri, the same pattern continued. Notations included:
- ‘Progressive muscular dystrophy, does not know type’ (June 2007)
- ‘Progressive muscular dystrophy, type unclear’ (June 2007)
- ‘Muscular dystrophy of unclear type’ (September 2009)
- ‘Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy’ (September 2009, and in several subsequent records)
Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy is the fourth most common genetic cause of muscle weakness, marked by progressive wasting of muscles around the hips and shoulders.
Either Dee Dee’s brief nurse’s aide training allowed her to reach that conclusion herself, or, more likely, a medical professional raised it as a possibility.
What the records do not show is Dee Dee ‘storming out’ of doctor’s offices when she didn’t get the answer she wanted.
Instead, they show a mother repeatedly pursuing evaluations in an attempt to secure a diagnosis.
It is also worth considering that Gypsy’s selective mobility, choosing when to walk and when not to, may well have complicated matters for everyone involved.
During hospital visits in New Orleans, Dee Dee and Gypsy often stayed at the Ronald McDonald House on Canal Street, a 15-bedroom facility providing accommodation for children undergoing treatment at nearby hospitals and medical centers, as Gypsy was.
In 2001, staff at the Ronald McDonald House invited Gypsy to serve as their honorary queen at the Mardi Gras Parade on Sunday, February 25th, 2001, as reported in the local newspaper.
In that report, Gypsy Pitre-Blanchard is described as: “Suffering from poor physical and mental development, she is both vision and hearing impaired. She can no longer walk, is fed through a feeding tube and has some brain damage from seizures.”
Dee Dee told the reporter they had been: “Going to the Ronald McDonald House since she (Gypsy) was 3 days old.”
The article also noted that Gypsy: “Spends a lot of time with her grandfather, Claude Pitre, whom she considers her best friend.”
The same grandfather Gypsy would later claim had evicted her and Dee Dee from his home shortly before this interview took place.
Gypsy was described as ‘an avid animal lover, with four cats.’
Dee Dee reported that Gypsy was homeschooled, but attended religious education classes at St. Joseph Co-Cathedral.
The article gave further insight into 9-year-old Gypsy’s social life at the time: “(Gypsy) goes to events like Sesame Street Live and a recent convention for fans of ‘Xena, Warrior Princess’ and ‘Hercules, the Legendary Journeys.’ Whilst there, she met cast members Ted Raimi and Bruce Campbell, AKA Joxer and Autolycus on ‘Xena,’ who spent the whole weekend with her.”
It also mentioned that members of the congregation at the cathedral: “Are hoping to hold a fundraising drive soon, so they can buy a self-contained, portable feeding pump that Gypsy can carry with her. There are also hopes that Gypsy can get an assistance dog soon.”
(All quotes: Houma Today, 23 February 2001.)
From this snapshot, things did not appear to be going too badly for young Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
It is often claimed that Dee Dee thrived on the attention that came from caring for a sick child, but it is difficult to imagine that attending Sesame Street Live or a Xena, Warrior Princess fan convention was on Dee Dee’s personal bucket list.
The real beneficiary of these experiences, and the attention that came with them, was Gypsy herself.
This is not the profile of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.
On May 29th, 2001, Dee Dee was badly injured in a car accident, leaving her foot almost severed.
Her autopsy report records a 6½-inch scar on the lower part of her left leg as a result of the crash.
In her fictional ‘memoir,’ ‘My Time to Stand’, Gypsy recounts the incident but omits key facts: “Afterward, she (Dee Dee) experienced chronic pain, which led to her to be prescribed with pain meds, which led to my addiction to her opioids.”
Even with her foot hanging by a thread, Dee Dee is still assigned the role of abuser.
For the record, in 2024 Gypsy recalled the accident as happening when she was 8 or 9. In reality, she was closer to 10.
Gypsy has often stated that she became addicted to opioids at an early age, a dependency she, of course, attributes to Dee Dee. The reality is that Gypsy was prescribed pain medication for her own health conditions.
When a patient is in pain, doctors prescribe medication; that is standard medical practice.
But addicted?
No.
To bolster her claim, Gypsy points to the fact that pain medication was found on her person at the time of her arrest.
Yet at that time, she was fixated on a convicted drug dealer and alleged heroin addict, with whom she planned to have sex a day after her mother was brutally murdered.
So, right back at you, Gyp.
Gypsy also told police she needed seizure medication when she was arrested, only to later say she did not suffer from seizures.
She displayed a feeding tube as if it were essential, despite allegedly telling Dee Dee days earlier that she no longer needed it.
When Gypsy’s blood was tested on the day of her arrest, nothing was detected in her system, not exactly the result one would expect from a self-proclaimed opioid addict.
Some of Gypsy’s medical records also note Dee Dee’s own injuries from the accident, including a reported head trauma that caused memory issues, particularly with recalling the details of Gypsy’s many medical conditions.
Is that possible? Absolutely.
Almost losing a foot and suffering a traumatic head injury, combined with the overwhelming responsibility of caring for a child with multiple complex health issues – without meaningful family support or assistance from the child’s father – could reasonably leave anyone a little forgetful and flustered at times.
Whilst Dee Dee recuperated in hospital following the 2001 car accident, Gypsy went to stay with her grandfather her, ‘best friend’, and his second wife, Laura.
In the The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Gypsy discusses her upcoming parole hearing: “I’m going to feel pressure to give them what they want to hear. My mother taught me how to lie and manipulate, but that doesn’t make me who I am, and I can learn to tell the truth. I’m just as flawed as the next person. I’ve made mistakes in my life. I’ve made bad choices but once the parole board knows the things that they don’t know, it’ll make them understand a little bit better who I am and why I did what I did.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024)
She then immediately follows with: “When I was living with my grandpa and my step grandmother, things changed in my life forever. I was being sexually abused, molested.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024)
There aren’t many people who share Gypsy’s particular brand of ‘flaws.’
Parricide, for example, is blessedly rare.
And with ‘Confessions,’ ‘Parole,’ and ‘Gypsy Rose Blanchard’ all in the same sentence, one might suspect an allegation of sexual abuse was incoming, and, unfortunately for Claude Sr., it was.
Claude Sr. recalls events differently: “When Dee Dee was in the hospital I took care of Gypsy. She would eat with us at the table, some French fries or anything we cooked. She didn’t use no feeding machine. We played together. We took her to church and everything. In that little wheelchair we’d bring her. Everywhere.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024)
Given how often relatives claim Gypsy would leap from her wheelchair and run around when Dee Dee wasn’t present, it’s curious she didn’t do so while Dee Dee was hospitalized.
Instead, she apparently sat in the chair… and ate crispy French fries. Solid food.
In her ‘memoir’ (‘My Time to Stand’), Gypsy claims Claude and Laura used her feeding tube for both food and medication.
We know who we believe. And it isn’t you, Gyp.
Her allegations of sexual abuse surfaced almost nine years after her arrest.
If true, they would be horrific.
If not, they demonstrate that there remains no limit to the accusations Gypsy is willing to make, nor to whom she is willing to direct them, in order to serve her narrative.
Gypsy’s account places the abuse in a closet or a backyard shed during Dee Dee’s hospitalization, with claims that Claude Sr. told her:
“You don’t want paw paw to go to jail do you?” (The Prison Confessions, 2024)
Kristy Blanchard adds, Claude: “Would take a bath with her (Gypsy). I mean, you don’t do that. At all.” (NewsNation, 2024).
Kristy hints at other details but insists “it’s Gypsy’s story to tell” and suggests “it could be all in the book.” (NewsNation, 2024).
In other words, Kristy capitalises on Gypsy’s story of alleged sexual abuse. No shock there.
Gypsy says she didn’t initially tell Dee Dee because her mother was ‘too badly injured to protect me,’ but claims she later confided some details a year afterward.
According to Gypsy, Dee Dee cried, blamed herself, and allegedly revealed that Claude Sr. had abused her as a child as well. (The Prison Confessions, 2024)
Claude Sr. flatly denies the accusations, appearing genuinely caught off guard when confronted:
“Abuse? Abuse with who?”
“Gypsy?”
“Uh uh. No. I never. That’s the first I heard of it… She would try to touch me. I said, ‘No. Don’t do that.’ She started that when she was about 4 years old.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024)
Bizarre?
Certainly.
Impossible?
Not necessarily.
Gypsy grew up without a consistent father figure, and children can sometimes behave inappropriately out of curiosity.
Kristy Blanchard’s own take – “If he did it, he has to live with it” – is equally unhelpful.
Evans Pitre, Dee Dee’s brother, rejects the allegation outright: “No, I don’t think that happened. I think that was probably just taught to her (Gypsy) by her mom for attention. To throw the spotlight on somebody else besides her.” (The Prison Confessions, 2024)
Claude Sr. has never been accused of sexual abuse by any of his children or numerous grandchildren, nor charged with such an offense. Should Gypsy decide to pursue charges, a court will decide.
For the record, Gyp, there is no statute of limitations on reporting sexual abuse.
As of August 2025, Gypsy has not reported her serious allegation.
Two weeks after her parole, Gypsy told a podcast she had been ready to forgive Claude Sr., but changed her mind after hearing his denial: “Be done with it.” (Nick Viall, 2024)
What genuine victim of sexual abuse says that?
Rod Blanchard has remained silent on the allegation. Bobby Pitre, however, has added his own, unsubstantiated, claim that Dee Dee used sex toys on a young Gypsy.
His evidence?
“My aunt told me.”
Gypsy has never echoed this claim.
She admits to using a nine-inch dildo, but blames Nicholas Godejohn, not Dee Dee.
Always the victim.
Given Gypsy’s own description of Dee Dee as ‘overprotective,’ it is difficult to imagine she would entrust her daughter to a man who had allegedly abused her, at any time.
Our conclusion: Claude Sr. did not sexually abuse Dee Dee or Gypsy.
There, we said it.
What a wicked, wicked woman Gypsy Rose Blanchard is.
(Gypsy’s prison emails, offering persuasive evidence to dispute Gypsy’s claims of sexual abuse, will be added here shortly).
Court papers dated September 17th, 2002, show Dee Dee pursuing a claim for injuries Gypsy sustained in the car accident. While the nature of those injuries is unknown, it is plausible that Gypsy was also recovering from physical and emotional trauma during her stay with Claude and Laura. In such a situation, Laura would have been an active caregiver, hardly the role of someone ignoring ‘baths with grandpa’ or unexplained disappearances into a closet.
We believe you, Claude.
Which means we do not believe you, Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
In 2024, Gypsy recorded that she was 8 or 9 at the time of the alleged abuse, and suggested it had been ongoing for years , an important detail she somehow forgot to include in The Prison Confessions. In reality, she was nearly 10 during that stay, as verified by court records. Eight or nine just sounds more childlike, doesn’t it? (My Time to Stand).
A friend of Dee Dee’s sister, Claudia, recently spoke out on a content creator’s social media platform regarding the sexual abuse allegations against Claude Snr.
She stated that Claudia described the closet in which Gypsy claims the abuse occurred as being so small it could barely fit one person, making the alleged scenario implausible.
The friend also addressed Gypsy’s further accusation that she was made to take baths with both Dee Dee and her grandfather, noting that Claudia had sent her a photograph of the bath in Claude Snr’s house.
The tub, reportedly ‘older than Gypsy,’ was small enough to fit just one adult.
Interestingly, Gypsy herself has stated on multiple occasions that she “always” bathed with Dee Dee at home.
Well, on at least one occasion she didn’t, if ever. (See the rather disturbing image on the top right.)
The friend also revealed that the Pitre family are considering legal action against Gypsy for making what they believe to be false sexual assault allegations against their father.
The only factor preventing them from pursuing this, she said, is their concern for Claude Snr’s well-being – at 86 years old (as of October 2024), they do not wish to put him through the strain of a court battle.
Additionally, the family fears possible retaliation from the Blanchard side should they proceed.
Allegedly, when informed that the Pitres were contemplating legal action, Kristy Blanchard responded, “They’re too stupid to sue us.” (Source: @ivoryroseknows 8th August, 2024).
What sort of retaliation could they be referring to?
To find out, we revisited the social media discussion groups that sprang up in the aftermath of Dee Dee’s death.
There, we noted several instances in which Kristy Blanchard allegedly threatened to sue authors of posts she felt contradicted her narrative.
One such threat – which can be seen in an image to the right – prompted the recipient to respond: “I’m a single mother — what she gonna get from me, my ramen noodles and Fruity Pebbles stash!”
The woman then launched into an unrestrained tirade against Kristy Blanchard, the entirety of which we cannot reproduce here. Suffice it to say, one wonders how high ‘picking on a woman with nothing to lose’ ranks on Kristy Blanchard’s list of regrets.
We are not claiming that the woman Kristy referred to as a “stupid bitch” was truthful in her comments.
However, they do serve as a counterpoint to the Blanchards’ portrayal of themselves as grieving, excluded parents, and for that reason, we consider their inclusion justified.
And for the record, we would also like to shake this woman’s hand.
For the record – we obtained and paid for the documents shown in this section in mid-2024. We shared them, unwatermarked, with some content creators. If you see them being used, watermarked with a content creator’s name, just know we provided them.
We don’t often snark, but we class that as liberty.
Just saying.
On September 17th, 2002, Dee Dee appeared in court following her application to be appointed Gypsy’s natural tutor.
This filing relates to the car accident Dee Dee and Gypsy were involved in on May 29th, 2001, and suggests that Gypsy may also have sustained injuries in that incident.
It was a standard legal move for a parent seeking damages on behalf of a child and serves as confirmation that Dee Dee had sole custody and care of Gypsy.
It also reinforces the point that, for all Rod’s claims of being “worried” about what was allegedly happening to Gypsy, he clearly wasn’t that worried, at least not enough to seek custody, or even joint custody, over the course of 11 years.
We do not know the outcome of the damages claim, but Dee Dee was, quite rightly, appointed Gypsy’s natural tutor.
(Excerpt below) In December 2024, Gypsy records in her memoir that Rod and Dee Dee divorced in 1992.
As can be seen in the official court document on the right, evidence suggests they divorced on March 31st, 1994.
It’s almost as if we are being encouraged to believe the relationship ended far sooner than it really did.
Surely professional researchers were involved in producing this memoir? (Source: ‘My Time To Stand)
In 2003, Dee Dee and Gypsy were living in public housing in Slidell.
At some point, they moved out and into the home of a family after Dee Dee told them she and Gypsy were homeless (Source: The Good Wives’ Network).
Kristy Blanchard has suggested that Dee Dee simply ‘didn’t like’ the government housing, but frankly, we’re long past the point of believing a word Kristy Blanchard says.
While living with the family, the son, Mike, suggested to Dee Dee that she apply for a home through Habitat for Humanity, a charity that helps disabled people and those down on their luck secure housing.
Mike even had a friend working for the charity, who provided an application form, which Dee Dee completed.
Years later, after Dee Dee’s death, of course, the family’s children alleged that when their mother returned home from back surgery, she had warned them not to leave food unattended because Dee Dee was poisoning her.
They also claimed that after Dee Dee and Gypsy moved out, they found credit card applications in various names using their mother’s Social Security number.
As with so many posthumous accusations against Dee Dee, there is no evidence to substantiate these claims, and no criminal charges were ever filed.
And really, if someone were poisoning your mother, wouldn’t you call the police?
We certainly would.
On December 26th, 2003, Dee Dee and Gypsy made front-page news in the Slidell Sentry-News, offering a rare insight into life since their departure from Green Meadow.
In the article, Dee Dee spoke of, ‘being abandoned by her family after the death of her mother,’ and explained that she and Gypsy had ‘bounced around’ for several years looking for affordable housing on their ‘severely limited budget,’ even spending the night in their car twice.
Gypsy, aged 11, though actually 12, was reported as having, ‘multiple health problems that have led her to being tube fed, and confined to a wheelchair and suffering with frequent seizures.’
Dee Dee described 2003 as, “the most unbelievable, most miraculous year of our lives,” adding, “We came to Slidell because this is the only place where public housing is available. The Lord really knew what He wanted for us. Today we have a roof over our heads, an adopted family of Granny Mary and Ronald Gisclair, a church family at Aldersgate Methodist Church, social workers for Gypsy, and we were given a trip to Disney World in Florida by the Children’s Wish Endowment.”
Gypsy herself spoke about her Disney trip, excitedly describing how she, ‘swam with dolphins and snorkelled with stingrays’ at Discovery Cove.
Yes, you read that correctly, swam and snorkelled.
The same Gypsy who would later claim her abusive mother forced her to remain in a wheelchair is on record at age 12 recounting a full aquatic adventure. And there’s a photo to prove it.
It’s remarkable how often Gypsy’s ‘I was never allowed out of the wheelchair’ story fails to include, ‘Except for that one time when I was swimming with dolphins and stingrays.’
Perhaps she simply told Dee Dee her legs didn’t feel quite so tired that day.
The article also mentions the four scrapbooks Dee Dee kept on her lap during the interview, filled with 21 rolls of film from the trip. One has to wonder -what happened to the photos of Gypsy strolling through Disney World at age 12?
By this point, Gypsy was attending events, going to conventions, meeting celebrities, visiting Disney World, swimming with dolphins, and snorkelling with stingrays.
She’d been Mardi Gras Queen for a day, interviewed for newspapers, photographed, and placed squarely in the spotlight.
She was learning exactly how much attention, and how many perks, could come from being, or at least appearing, sick.
(Excerpt below) In December 2024, Gypsy repeats in her memoir the claim that she was ‘never allowed to get out of her wheelchair,’ even at home (‘My Time To Stand’).
On January 14th, 2004, Gypsy was seen at Tulane Hospital, Louisiana, for evaluation of excessive drooling.
On January 27th, she underwent a Barium swallowing test, during which she ‘exhibited significant difficulty in swallowing all consistency of food’ and ‘significant gagging and coughing with each attempt to swallow.’
However, a follow-up medical record dated May 17th, 2004, states the test ‘showed no evidence of aspiration or penetration,’ implying the gagging and coughing ‘may have been behavioural rather than a true swallowing dysfunction.’
In plain terms: Gypsy had the physical ability to swallow but, for whatever reason, was choosing not to.
Years later, in an ABC News interview, Gypsy would claim that Dee Dee rubbed her gums with a ‘topical anaesthetic’ to induce drooling, leading to the ‘unnecessary’ removal of her salivary glands.
The problem is, the medical record contradicts this narrative.
The fact remains: Gypsy could swallow.
Despite Gypsy’s apparent attempts to sabotage the swallowing test, doctors decided to decrease her saliva production through Botox injections.
She underwent several courses before the treatment was deemed ‘insufficient,’ and on December 8th, 2004, Gypsy herself reported to a doctor that the Botox ‘worked very well for a few months’ but that she had ‘started having trouble again.’
This is noteworthy – coming from Gypsy, who would later claim she was ‘never allowed to speak to doctors’ for fear of Dee Dee ‘crushing her fingers.’
Following her own report of recurring symptoms, doctors made the medical decision to remove her bilateral submandibular glands, located beneath the floor of the mouth and responsible for producing up to 67% of unstimulated saliva.
Kristy Blanchard has claimed, “She (Gypsy) had two out of her four salivary glands removed. About 8 surgeries” (Would You Kill My Mother For Me, 2022).
This statement makes little anatomical sense.
Humans have three pairs of major salivary glands, for a total of six, not four.
And the removal of bilateral submandibular glands is performed in one surgery, not eight.