Gypsy Rose Blanchard reflected on the “good times” with her late mom, Clauddinnea “Dee Dee” Blanchard, in an emotional Mother’s Day video nearly nine years after she was murdered.
On Sunday, the 32-year-old posted an eight-minute video thanking all of the mother figures in her life who shaped her into the woman she is today — including her mom, who started abusing her when she was just a toddler.
“Today is Mother’s Day, and I wanted to make a video basically celebrating the really strong and wonderful women that I have in my life that have been mother figures to me over the last eight and a half years,” Blanchard shared on TikTok.
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The felon-turned-star told her followers that she turned off her comments because she didn’t “want to hear any negative bulls—t.”
She then delved into her complex relationship with DeeDee, who was stabbed to death in June 2015 by Gypsy Rose’s then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn in a plan concocted by the two.
“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,” Blanchard shared.
“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,” she continued. “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.”
Gypsy Rose explained that “no one can take away” or change how she feels about her mom regardless of what other people think.
“I feel like no one should be able to have an opinion about my mother except for her family and me because we were the people closest to her,” she said.
Gypsy Rose was freed from prison in December 2023 after serving more than seven years behind bars for the second-degree murder of her mother.
The internet star helped plot and clean up the murder after being abused her entire life and tricked into believing she had a plethora of different illnesses — undergoing unnecessary surgeries and living in a wheelchair.
Her mother suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological disorder in which parents make up sicknesses or cause real symptoms to make their child appear ill, according to the National Library of Medicine.
Despite that, Gypsy Rose said she chooses to “remember her for the good that was in her heart that I truly believe was there.”
“I have been working for years on forgiveness, and I hope that she is in heaven, and I hope that to some degree I make her proud of at least some of the achievements that I’ve made in my life in growing up and standing on my own two feet and learning through experiences,” she said.
“In heaven, they say that all mental afflictions, all physical afflictions are gone, right?” she continued. “God makes you perfect in heaven, so if you take away the mental afflictions that my mother had, then I think what’s left is a good person.”
While the former felon has “many” regrets, she vowed to say a “prayer” for her mom and remember “the good that was inside of her.”
Gypsy Rose then praised her stepmom, Kristy Blanchard, for being her “biggest advocate” and an overall “incredible, kick-ass woman.”
She also gave a shoutout to her “Aunt Vickie” and her boyfriend Ken Urker’s mother, Raina Williams, for welcoming her with open arms despite her past.
“They are really, really good mothers,” she said. “And I hope that when I have kids someday that I can take a lot from them.”
While holding back tears, Gypsy Rose concluded the video by vowing to do whatever she can to make those women “proud.”
“Thank you for loving me through a time that I felt unlovable and accepting me no matter what, cause that means everything to me,” she said. “And for accepting me no matter what because that means everything to me.”
