Britney Spears said it best: “Mama, I’m in love with a criminal, and this type of love isn’t rational.” Gypsy Rose Blanchard has separated from her husband, who she notably praised in very public social media antics and multiple post-carceral interviews.
The 32-year-old survivor of Munchausen syndrome by proxy announced her split from Ryan Scott Anderson on Facebook on Thursday (March 28), just three months after she was released from prison.
She wrote: "People have been asking what is going on in my life.
“Unfortunately my husband and I are going through a separation and I moved in with my parents' home down the bayou.”
Gypsy was referring to her father, Rod Blanchard, and her stepmom, Kristy, who, according to Gypsy’s post, live in a slow-moving creek or a swampy section of a river or a lake just outside New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard announced that she has split from her husband, Ryan Scott Anderson, via a private Facebook post
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She continued: “I have the support of my family and friends to help guide me through this.
"I am learning to listen to my heart. Right now I need time to let myself find… who I am."
Gypsy and Ryan tied the knot in a jailhouse ceremony with no guests in July 2022.
In a previous interview with People ahead of her early release in December 2023, Gypsy said she had planned to marry the Louisiana middle school special education teacher again after her release.
She said, at the time: "We do plan on having a reception/redo wedding with all of our family and our friends and the dress and the cake and everything because we deserve that.
“I deserve that. He deserves that.
The 32-year-old survivor of Munchausen syndrome by proxy announced her breakup just three months after she was released from prison
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"Our prison wedding was just something to where we can make our vows to each other.
“It was something that meant something to us.
“And I think the party is kind of for everybody else and us, but mostly for everybody else."
At the time, the Louisiana native said she was excited about moving in with her spouse and starting their life together.
She said: “I’ve never lived with a man.
“I grew up with a mom, so I didn’t even grow up with a dad in the house.
“So, I’m like, ‘I don’t even know what it’s like to live with a man.’”
Gypsy and Ryan previously planned a bigger ceremony upon her prison release
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Earlier this month, the now-published author shared a video on TikTok before deleting her social media platforms.
According to People, in the video, she apologized to “all the people that I offended with a lack of accountability, the first month or so that I was out of prison and the lack of accountability in my interviews, I'm sorry, I'm learning.
"I take accountability for my part, and I'm saying this right now. I'm taking accountability. I did a bad thing."
Gypsy and Ryan tied the knot in a jailhouse ceremony with no guests in July 2022
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A source told People that she had deleted her accounts “at the advisement of her parole officer, so she [wouldn't] get in trouble and go back to jail."
Gypsy was released from prison on parole after spending eight years behind bars for second-degree murder in connection with the death of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard.
The victim was granted parole in September, with the Missouri Department of Corrections scheduling her release for December 28, three years before her release date.
She and her then-boyfriend, Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn, conspired to kill her mom, Dee Dee, in 2015 after being subjected to painful and needless medical procedures throughout her entire life.
Gypsy was being mentally and physically abused and forced into yet another unnecessary medical procedure when she plotted her mother’s murder and was “desperate” to get out of that situation.
Gypsy admitted she needed to know herself better
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The feeling led her to ask Nick, who she met on an online dating site, to kill her abusive mother while she waited in the bathroom of the Springfield, Missouri, home she shared with her.
Among the numerous illnesses that Dee Dee falsely claimed her daughter had was muscular dystrophy, forcing Gypsy into a wheelchair despite being able to walk.
Dee Dee also forced her to use painful feeding tubes and made friends and family believe she had Leukemia after shaving Gypsy’s head. She would also trick doctors into diagnosing and treating different illnesses.
Another notable consequence of Dee Dee’s mistreatment of Gypsy saw the victim lose all of her teeth after rotting out and being painfully extracted as a result of poor dental hygiene mixed with medications and severe malnutrition.
In a former interview, Gypsy said: “Obviously I knew that I could walk and didn’t need a feeding tube, but everything else was a really big confusion for me.”
Many people came in support of Gypsy upon learning about her breakup
