Gypsy Rose Blanchard said she hopes her mother is “in heaven” as she gave her a Mother’s Day tribute, nine years after her murder.
The 32-year-old blocked comments on her TikTok page when she posted her eight-minute message on the first Mother’s Day since her release from prison in December last year.
“It doesn’t go unnoticed that my own biological mother is not here to celebrate Mother’s Day,” she told her 10 million followers.
‘And what I choose to feel on Mother’s Day about my own mother is that I think the best of her.
‘I think of the good times. I think of her not as what he did to me, but as a person.
Blanchard was reflective as she remembered the mother she had murdered.
Blanchard was the victim of one of America’s most notorious cases of Munchausen power at the hands of her abusive mother Clauddine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard (right)
Blanchard has turned her life around and gained more than 10 million followers on social media since being released from prison in December last year.
‘Was she a good mother? No. Was she the best mom in the world? No. But she was still my mother, so whatever I choose to feel about her, whether it be guilt, anger, grief, resentment; whatever.’
Blanchard was the victim of one of America’s most notorious cases of Munchausen power at the hands of her abusive mother Clauddine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard.
She spent her childhood confined to a wheelchair while her mother shaved her head, pumped her full of unnecessary medications, and convinced the world she suffered from leukemia and muscular dystrophy.
Her dominance came to an end in 2015 when Blanchard convinced a boyfriend she had met online, Nicholas Godejohn, to sneak into her home in Springfield, Missouri, and stab her mother to death.
“I choose to remember her for the good that was in her heart that I truly believe was there,” he said.
‘I have been working for years on forgiveness and I hope she is in heaven.
And I hope to some extent I can make her proud of at least some of the accomplishments I’ve made in my life by growing up and standing on my own two feet, learning through experiences.
‘Because in heaven they say that all mental afflictions, all physical afflictions are gone, right?
Blanchard was jailed for second-degree murder after persuading Nicholas Godejohn, a boyfriend she had met online, to sneak into her home in Springfield, Missouri, and stab her mother to death. Godejohn remains in prison serving a life sentence
She shared a throwback photo alongside a recent selfie along with a caption about “getting over the past” earlier this month. The ex-con, 32, took to her Instagram to post a photo of herself as a teenager in a wheelchair juxtaposed with a snap showing her plastic surgery transformation.
In the days following her split from her husband, she was spotted with her old flame Ken Urker and the pair weren’t shy about showing off their matching Husky dog ink.
She got the tattoos with Urker when she filed for divorce from her now-estranged husband, Ryan Anderson.
‘It makes you perfect in heaven, so if you take away the mental afflictions that my mother had, then I think what’s left is a good person.’
But Blanchard said the real reason for her video was to celebrate the “really strong, wonderful women that I have in my life who have been mother figures to me for the last eight and a half years.”
He singled out his ‘stepmom’ Kristy Blanchard as an ‘incredible, great woman’ and thanked a family friend whom he identified as ‘Aunt Vickie.’
She also paid tribute to Raina Williams, the mother of her boyfriend Ken Urker.
“She has been such a tolerant person to me that I never thought I would be accepted and loved for who I am,” she explained.
“Take Ken out of the equation, she still loves me for who I am.”
Blanchard married Ryan Anderson, 37, in a Missouri prison in July 2022, where he was serving his sentence, but the couple split in March when Blanchard told her Facebook followers she was “learning to listen to my heart.” .
Anderson exclusively told DailyMail.com that he and Blanchard split due to her ongoing relationship with ex-fiancé Ken Urker, and Blanchard filed for divorce shortly after.
“I’m not doing well with that,” Anderson said. ‘For me it came out of nowhere. He had no idea she still had such strong feelings for him.
Blanchard did not apologize for blocking comments on her latest upload, insisting she didn’t “want to hear any negative nonsense.”
‘If you want to talk shit about me, of course, I don’t give a f.
“Go do it on your own platform, but I’m not going to see it in my comments.”
She told her followers that she felt like “no one should be able to have an opinion about my mother except me and her family because we were the closest people to her.”
