Joey King has revealed that he has been in contact with Gypsy Rose Blanchard following his release from prison.
The Ramona and Beezus star, 24, played Blanchard, who was convicted of second-degree murder, in the 2019 Hulu limited series The Act.
King shared with Variety who has been speaking with the former inmate since he was released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-year sentence.
“She and I have talked a little bit privately, which has been really nice,” King told Variety on an upcoming episode of the Just For Variety podcast.
The Kissing Booth actress also said there is no bad blood between the two after Blanchard, 32, said she was upset that The Act allegedly never asked her permission to tell her story, nor compensated her for it.
Joey King revealed that he has been in contact with Gypsy Rose Blanchard following his release from prison. The actress, 24, played Blanchard, who was convicted of second-degree murder, in the 2019 Hulu limited series The Act; seen January 17
“She and I have talked a little bit privately, which has been really nice,” King told Variety on an upcoming episode of the Just for Variety podcast; Blanchard photographed on January 5 in New York
“Having that private conversation with her was really lovely,” King said.
“We both know there is absolutely no hard feelings toward each other,” King continued.
“I really appreciated that we were able to say those things to each other that were very sweet and supportive because people are stupid and assume what they want, and people just make things up because they find it funny.”
He added: “There was no air to clear at all. Nothing bad happened. But it was nice to connect for a minute.”
King also commented that he thought it was great that Blanchard was out of prison and “can really start her life now.”
King was nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her role as Blanchard, while her co-star Patricia Arquette, 55, won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Gypsy’s mother, Dee Dee.
Blanchard’s life after prison will next be examined in an upcoming Lifetime docuseries.
The new series comes after Lifetime aired the six-hour special The Prison Confessions Of Gypsy Rose Blanchard last month.
In 2016, Gypsy’s then-boyfriend Nick Godejohn stabbed her mother Dee Dee in the middle of the night because she asked him to kill her.
It was later determined that he had been a victim of his mother’s Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
For more than a decade, Gypsy’s mother had inflicted medical abuse on her only daughter, pretending that she suffered from a litany of illnesses (including leukemia, asthma, and muscular dystrophy) and insisting that Gypsy remain in a wheelchair, have a feeding tube and will take a series of treatments. of medications.
They even removed some of Gypsy’s salivary glands, which eventually caused her teeth to rot, forcing her to have them removed.
The Kissing Booth actress also said there is no bad blood between them after Blanchard, 32, claimed to be upset that The Act never asked her permission to tell her story or compensated her for it; photographed in January in New York
“Having that private conversation with her was really lovely,” King said. “We both know there is absolutely no hard feelings towards the other”; photographed in November 2020
“I really appreciated that we were able to say those things to each other that were very sweet and supportive because people are stupid and assume what they want, and people just make things up because they find it funny”; seen in 2022 in Paris
He added: “There was no air to clear at all. Nothing bad happened. But it was nice to connect for a minute.
King also commented that he thought it was great that Blanchard was out of prison and “can really start her life now.”
King was nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her role as Blanchard, and her co-star Patricia Arquette, 55, won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Gypsy’s mother, Dee Dee.
Dee Dee had lied to Gypsy, as well as doctors and acquaintances about her daughter’s age, making everyone believe she was much younger than she really was, apparently to keep Gypsy under her legal control.
During an interview with 20/20, Gypsy recalled that after trying to escape, her mother “physically chained me to the bed, put bells on the doors and told anyone she probably would have trusted that I was going through what I was going through.” . a phase and tell her if she was doing something behind her back.
While Gypsy accepted a plea deal for second-degree murder for helping facilitate Dee Dee’s death, Nick was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Since Gypsy was paroled in September, her fans have been celebrating, with many declaring that she never “deserved” to go to prison in the first place.