In her 2016 BuzzFeed article detailing the extraordinary case, Michelle Dean-who now serves as co-showrunner and executive producer on The Act-noted that Dee Dee’s behavior was indicative of Munchausen by Proxy syndrome (a variation on Munchausen syndrome, whereby a person feigns or induces symptoms of illness in themselves). Over the first twenty years of her life, Gypsy was subjected to a battery of unnecessary medical procedures, forced to use a wheelchair and feeding tube, and denied any semblance of a normal life: She didn’t attend school past second grade, and never left the house without her mother. Friends and neighbors knew Gypsy as a sickly, wheelchair-bound child, and Dee Dee as her devoted caregiver, but after Dee Dee’s death the truth emerged: Gypsy was perfectly healthy, but had been forced to pretend otherwise by her mother. Today Dee Dee's sociopathic stranglehold on her daughter is considered to be one of the most severe cases of Munchhausen by Proxy Syndrome ever documented, and part of the reason she avoided a life sentence, or potentially even death.Hulu’s new true-crime miniseries The Act, starring Patricia Arquette and Joey King, dramatizes the creepier-than-fiction story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who in 2016 was sentenced to ten years in prison for murdering her mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.
Both went to jail for their crimes: Nicholas was sentenced to life, while Gypsy is serving a 10-year sentence. The pair were arrested and charged with murder. She'd reaped the benefits - including a Habitat for Humanity-built house in Springfield, Missouri - for more than 20 years.Įventually, Gypsy snapped. She enlisted her boyfriend Nicholas to kill her mother.ĭee Dee's body was not discovered for days and Gypsy was eventually tracked down at Nicholas' house in Wisconsin. Her condition was an elaborate fraud swallowed by friends, family, doctors and even the young woman herself.įor Gypsy's entire life, Dee Dee had concocted this lie. The medication was unnecessary and rotted her teeth, the operations pointless.
She didn't need it, because Gypsy was not sick.
Astonishingly, she was healthy and walking, despite the fact that she hadn't taken any of her medication.
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