Gypsy Rose Blanchard is still learning how to navigate life after prison, and she’s allowing audiences to follow along in her upcoming Lifetime docu-series detailing the ups and downs of her first few months post-incarceration.
A new docuseries consisting of 8 parts Gypsy Rose: Life After Prison, We give an inside look at how Blanchard coped with the fame and media frenzy surrounding his December release.
“You know my story. Now let’s see what I do with my life,” Blanchard, 32, says in the trailer released Wednesday.
The series, branded by Lifetime as her “new life,” sees Blanchard divorce from husband Ryan Anderson.
Blanchard and Anderson have been married for two years. They married in 2022 while Blanchard was serving time at Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri for the 2015 second-degree murder of her mother.
“I’m not sure if this marriage is going to be happy,” Blanchard said. “I ended up getting divorced.”
Anderson is seen crying in the trailer.
“I don’t want to lose my wife,” Anderson says in a voiceover. She loves her.”
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Blanchard filed for divorce on April 8. Blanchard also asked the district court for a restraining order against her estranged husband.
Blanchard has since confirmed that she is dating ex-fiancé Ken Urker. The two met while Blanchard was serving time in prison.
Blanchard will also undergo plastic surgery in the documentary series, a rhinoplasty to remove a “bump” on the bridge of her nose.
“I don’t want to be me,” Blanchard said in one video.
In the trailer, Blanchard speculates whether she might be at risk of meeting ‘dangerous people’ due to death threats she said she received on social media.
Blanchard quickly grew a large social media following following his release from prison. Although she initially actively communicated with her followers online, she deleted several of her accounts in March to protect her privacy. In a TikTok video she has since deleted, Blanchard said she felt “regret” about her press tour after prison. Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s Prison Confessions) and “We apologize to everyone who was offended by our lack of responsibility.”
The pressures she faces are evident in the trailer. This is especially true in her ending where she is told by her parole officer that she must return to Louisiana after someone accuses her of posing a threat to the state.
“I’m not free,” Blanchard told the camera.
“I’m in a different kind of prison,” she says.
Gypsy Rose: Life After Prison It premieres June 3 on Lifetime.
Who is Gypsy Rose Blanchard?
Blanchard, an abuse victim, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in June 2015 after encouraging her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejon to kill her mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.
For years, Blanchard was led by her mother to believe she was suffering from a number of serious illnesses, including leukemia, muscular dystrophy and brain damage. Gypsy underwent numerous surgeries, used a wheelchair and oxygen tank, and often believed she was fighting for her life.
Gyspy’s medical condition was manipulated by her mother. It is now widely believed that she suffers by proxy from Munchausen syndrome, a mental health disorder in which caregivers predict the diagnosis or cause symptoms in dependents.
Blanchard was released on parole in September after serving eight years in prison.
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