Gypsy Rose Blanchard, convicted for killing her mother, enjoys Mother's Day with her daughter Aurora, says 'I'm not a monster'
has been out of prison for almost one-and-a-half years now after getting parole in December 2023 in the
murder case
of her mother, Dee Dee. She just celebrated her first mother's day with her daughter, Aurora, and posted pictures of the same on her Instagram page.
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She also stars in season 2 of a web series on her life. The series Life After Lock Up released on March 10 and shows her life after her parole. It shows her getting back to her life, the birth of her daughter and how she reunited with her former boyfriend, Ken Urker.
Born on July 27, 1991, Gypsy Rose became a mother when she gave birth to her daughter on December 28, 2024. Urker, the father of the girl child named Aurora was with her when she went into labour exactly one year after she was paroled and walked out of the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Chillicothe, Missouri (USA).
In a small video posted on her Instagram from
Lifetime TV
, the producer of the webseries on her, an emotional Gypsy Rose talks about her daughter and how she wants her (Aurora) to remember her mother.
'How are you going to tell your daughter about what you did? I just want to know that she's going to love me and forgive me for what I did in my past. Cause, I'm not a monster,' she says while touching upon her prison term for killing her mother.
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She is also planning for a vacation with her daughter and Urker before the end of her parole on June 25, 2025.
She was arrested along with
Nicholas Godejohn
, her then-boyfriend, in 2015 for the murder of her mother
Dee Dee Blanchard
. She and Godejohn had planned the killing of Dee Dee as she wanted to escape from the abuses and tortures that she was facing at the hands of her mother.
Dee Dee was stabbed to death by Godejohn while Gypsy Rose hid in the washroom and covered her ears so as to not hear her mother's screams.
While she got a prison term of 10 years for her role in the killing, Godejohn was sentenced to 25 years without parole.
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