‘There’s No Such Thing as a Perfect Victim’: Gypsy-Rose Blanchard Addresses Backlash amid New Public Persona

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard is opening up about life after prison —and the backlash she's received since going public with her personal life.

Blanchard —who was released from prison in December 2023 after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in connection with her mother's death in 2016 — appeared on Good Morning America on May 30 to discuss her past five months of freedom. When correspondent Juju Changasked her why she has decided to share details of her life with the public, Blanchard responded that she wants to be able to post on social media like everyone else—regardless of how people might view her.

"Quite honestly I’m starting to feel like they want a perfect victim and there is no such thing as a perfect victim," Blanchard told Chang. "In their mind, the perfect victim would have died. And so now that I survived and perpetrator of the abuse is the one that died, then I’m getting the hate."

Blanchard, now 32, was the victim of Munchausen by proxyat the hands of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, for years. Dee Dee made Blanchard have unnecessary surgeries and kept her in a wheelchair, despite her not needing one. Blanchard and her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn plotted to kill Dee Dee in 2015. Godejohn carried out the killing and remains in prison.

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In addition to speaking out about her public persona, Blanchard also addressed the hate she received after posting a Mother's Day post on TikTok in which she mentioned her mother.

"Being associated with anything to do with a mother or mother figure, I’m going to get backlash for it," Blanchard said on GMA. "I wanted to acknowledge her, I wanted to honor her memory, and if I got hate for it, so be it. I go through my own guilt on a daily basis, so it’s not like I can ever hide from that. But I don’t know if people want me to crawl up in a ball and just start crying all the time? I can’t live that way. I have to heal myself."

In the now-deleted TikTok, Blanchard said in part: "It does not go without notice that my own biological mother is not here to celebrate Mother's Day and what I choose to feel on Mother's Day regarding my own mother is that I think the best of her. I think about the good times. I think about her as not what she did to me, but I think about her as a person ... Was she a good mom? No. Was she the best mom in the world? No. But she was still my mom so what I choose to feel about her, whether that be guilt, anger, grief, resentment — whatever. That's mine to feel."

Since her prison release, Blanchard has separated from her husband Ryan Scott Anderson, rekindled her romance with her ex-fiancé Ken Urker and underwent rhinoplasty.

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