AsDee Dee Blanchardcried for help as she was being stabbed to death, everything went silent for her daughter, who had encouraged her then-boyfriend to kill her mom.
“I put my hands over my ears and then it all went quiet,” Blanchard says in the clip, describing the moment in 2015 when Nicholas Godejohn fatally stabbed her mom while she was in bed.
Godejohn was laterconvicted of first-degreemurder and is nowin prison for life without parole. Blanchard told authorities she hadGodejohn kill Dee Dee to escape her life of abuse; she is currently serving 10 years in prisonafter pleading guilty to second-degree murder.
From the time she was very young, Gypsy Rose seemingly suffered from a variety of ailments. The Missouri girl spent her life in a wheelchair, was in and out of hospitals and took dozens of medications.
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(The case was chronicled in the Hulu true crime anthology seriesThe Act,starring Joey Kingas Gypsy RoseandPatricia Arquetteas Dee Dee, and also in the HBO documentaryMommy Dead and Dearest.)
In her 2017 interview with McGraw, Blanchard discussed her mixed feelings about the murder.
“Are you glad your mother’s dead?” McGraw asked her.
Gypsy, at left, and Dee Dee Blanchard.GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE; Inset: Uncredited/AP/REX/Shutterstock
“No sir,” Blanchard replied. “I’m glad that I’m out of that situation, but I’m not happy she’s dead.”
Earlier this year, the 27-year-old quietly announcedto family and friends that she and her boyfriend were engaged.
“They are very happy,” family friend Fancy Macelli previously told PEOPLE. “You can hear excitement in her voice.”
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source: people.com
