Gypsy Rose Blanchard has been granted early release

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What a complicated case

Yes she was abused badly for many years, but she did also manipulate her boyfriend into killing her mother rather brutally.

I hope she has a better life now though

Yes it was such a weird story. Hopefully she's had treatment and isn't so fucked up now?

I expect she'll hook up with yet another unsuitable man before much longer.

She has no judgement when it comes to men - not surprising, when you consider what she went through with her abominable mother.

I feel conflicted as obviously what she did was dreadful but she has served time and she was abused by her mother so badly that she was essentially a hostage. I can see how she was desperate.

She has said that she's had more freedom in prison than she had living with her mother which I find so sad. I hope she manages to have a good life but considering what a fucked up childhood she had I don't hold out much hope.

Good. She deserves a fresh start, hopefully she changes her name and goes under the radar.

I hope they don't just send her on her merry way. She obviously needs ongoing support, possibly even lifelong after what she went through.

However I don't have much faith that the American system will provide that.

I'm glad for her. She acted in self-defence and killed a monstrous habitual child abuser who had literally groomed abuse targets since birth.

If this was a man who'd held his daughter prisoner and raped her from the time she was a newborn, no one would judge the daughter for killing him. I don't think she did anything wrong at all in killing her abuser. I think her mother should be considered in the same league as Josef Fritzl or the Turpin family. The level of extreme physical torture she was subject to every day is unimaginable.

However I'm glad she went to prison, not for justice, but because I think there's no way someone from that background would be able to cope alone without substantial support. She wouldn't have coped with the transition from having her every move controlled, to having complete freedom, without some kind of halfway house. Prison gives a physically very structured environment while also allowing a fair greater degree of emotional and intellectual (and in some ways physical) freedom than she ever had before. And prison has programmes to help inmates build life skills and plan for the future; she was able to finish high school in prison (her mother never allowed her to go to school so she was denied basically any education at all), she took various different classes, and she underwent training to become an animal handler.

I wish her all the best and I hope she continues her work as an advocate for child abuse survivors.

I don't think she should have ever been in prison. The torture she endured was enough. Detained for mental health support and time to readjust would have been fairer.

I hope that someone protects her though. She got married last year and then split up a few months later, and she was engaged to different men at least three times before that. I think she'll be very vulnerable to men.

Totally agree.

for all we’ve come to understand coercive abuse in romance relationships it’s present in many families. Grooming your child from infancy will lead to lifelong mental problems and trauma.

I’m not surprised she found prison so refreshing.

Agreed. I really hope she gets the chance to live some semblance of a normal life. Poor women literally had that taken away from her from day 1.

Glad to hear it

Gypsy Rose never stood a chance with her Mother, and Grandmother
Watched a documentary that stated her own Grandmother was somewhat similar when bringing up Gypsy's Mother.

I agree. She's never had a day of freedom in her whole life. She was kept away from the normal places that she could have turned to in order to escape and the only world she knew about was one she had learnt from films and the internet. She lived in a complete fantasy world.

Her mother had only ever taught her to lie. She had one real life friend but she had had to lie to her from the day she met her.

I watched ‘The Act’, the TV series about the case. I was really shocked at the abuse GRB endured at the hands of her mother, including removing all of her teeth.

She didn't 'manipulate' her boyfriend, he was a willing participant

I think it's quite likely that he was the instigator.
Gypsy was very easily led.

I'm so pleased other posters have been pleased of her early release also.

Shes no threat to the public, she was horrifically abused by her monstrous mother.

I can't find it on Google however I'm sure I heard somewhere Gypsy Rose's fertility would be fucked up now from the surgeries deedee had done to her, it could be a rumour of course, however, if that's true I hope to heaven she's given really good therapy if she would have wanted to have a family of her own.

I think her and her boyfriend were absolutely both lacking in the maturity and intelligence at that point to really know how to escape Deedee.
Regardless of who's to blame for the way they become free of deedee, the fact she felt killing her was the only way shows the absolute terror she endured.

I would have hated being the jury for this case because it’s so bloody complicated

I am so pleased to hear this news. The abuse, both physical and emotional that poor Gypsy suffered at the hands of her so called mother was absolutely horrific. I hope she got support and therapy in prison. It's hard to believe Gypsy is a woman in her thirties as due to the abuse she wasn't given the opportunity to grow up and mature normally. As a result, she still presents as quite childlike and immature so i suspect she may always be vulnerable, especially to male attention. I hooe somebody is looking out for her. Her dad and stepmother were very involved in fighting for her and obviously loved her so hopefully they are helping Gypsy. I wish her a happy and fulfilling life, she deserves it.