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Gypsy Rose Blanchard, 32, instructed PEOPLE in a brand new interview that she realized how one can use a tampon in jail. Gypsy Rose, who spent over seven years behind bars for her involvement in her mom Dee Dee Blanchard‘s homicide in 2015, revealed that she was unaware about menstruation due to the abuse she was coping with as a sufferer of Munchausen by proxy.
“It was not your typical, ‘OK, so I’m going to take you to a store and we’re going to get you a training bra, we’re going to get you pads and tampons,’ ” she defined within the interview printed January 4. “There was none of that. So it was very abnormally learned, and unfortunately, I had to basically come to prison with the skills that [Dee Dee] taught me, which was not much.”
Gypsy Rose was in her 20s when she started her jail sentence in 2016 after pleading responsible to the second-degree homicide of her mother. Her then-boyfriend, Nick Godejohn, killed Dee Dee and was sentenced to life in jail. During the virtually eight years that she was locked up at Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri, Gypsy Rose realized rather a lot about her lady components because of her fellow inmates.
“[In prison] I’m around women that have been around the block or two, and they have a lot of life experience,” she instructed PEOPLE. “Maybe it’s not the best life experience, but I’ve been able to gain some positives from being around other inmates,” she added.
Gypsy Rose was launched from jail on December 28. She will inform her story in The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a brand new Lifetime documentary particular that airs over the course of three nights beginning on January 5. According to PEOPLE, Gypsy Rose reveals within the sequence that Dee Dee made her put on a diaper throughout her menstruation earlier than she went to jail.
During Gypsy’s childhood, Dee Dee satisfied everybody that her daughter was affected by a number of diseases, together with muscular dystrophy and leukemia. Dee Dee even had Gypsy’s head commonly shaved to be able to keep the looks of a most cancers sufferer. Dee Dee additionally compelled Gypsy to take medicines that she didn’t want and put her in a wheelchair, even if Gypsy was in a position to stroll.
Since being launched from jail, Gypsy Rose has been adjusting to regular life along with her husband, Ryan Scott Anderson. Gypsy Rose instructed PEOPLE in a separate interview that she desires to have youngsters with Ryan. “I’m going to have kids one day, and I’m going to have to explain to my kids why their grandmother on mommy’s side isn’t around,” she stated. “And that’s going to be a really hard conversation.”