Gypsy Rose Blanchard has spent eight years in prison, at times playing back the events of June 2015 in her mind over and over again.
Now 32, and set to walk free on Thursday, Dec. 28, she clearly recalls when she and then-boyfriend Nicholas "Nick" Godejohn conspired to kill her mom Dee Dee, who for years had subjected Gypsy to painful medical procedures she never needed. It was argued in court and is widely believed that Gypsy was a victim of Munchausen by proxy, a rare form of abuse in which a guardian exaggerates or induces illness in a child for attention and sympathy.
At the time of Dee Dee's murder, Gypsy claims she was being mentally and physically abused and forced into yet another unnecessary surgery. Now she tells PEOPLE, "I was desperate to get out of that situation." According to Gypsy, that desperation led her to ask Godejohn to kill her mother, which he did while she waited in the bathroom of the Springfield, Mo., home she shared with Dee Dee.
"If I got one more opportunity to re-try everything, I couldn't say whether I would return to when I was a kid and tell my aunties and uncles that I'm not debilitated and mother makes me wiped out," says Vagabond, "or on the other hand, if I would venture out back to only the mark of that discussion with Scratch and tell him, 'You know what, I will go tell the police everything.' I sort of battle with that."
Yet, she adds, "No one will at any point hear me say I'm happy she's dead or I'm glad for what I did. I think twice about it each and every day."
When Vagabond was 7, Dee had erroneously asserted her girl experienced various ailments. One of those was strong dystrophy, which Dee said expected Vagabond to utilize a wheelchair, even though the young lady had the option to stroll without issue. Next came difficult and pointless taking care of cylinders and a case that Wanderer had Leukemia, for which Dee shaved Vagabond's head. Dee tricked loved ones into accepting the infirmities were genuine and fooled specialists into diagnosing and treating them.
Vagabond herself went through years in obscurity. "Clearly I realize that I could walk and didn't require a taking care of cylinder, yet all the other things were a huge disarray for me," she says, referring to her epilepsy determination: "At whatever point I'd address it my mom would agree that I'd had a seizure the prior night and didn't recall. There was consistently a reason."
Shouting out about Dee's wild cases was something Vagabond said she learned not to do. "I would voice concerns, being like, 'I truly don't feel like I want this,' and she would get extremely angry with me and begin controlling me," says Wanderer. In the early years, to get Wanderer to consent, "she'd say 'On the off chance that you excel at the medical clinic, we're going to Toys 'R' Us to purchase another Barbie.'"
Compounding the situation, "I was exceptionally shielded" makes sense for Vagabond, who was never signed up for school and was generally held back from having a relationship with her dad Pole, stepmother Christie and her half-kin. "I was restricted in what I could watch and the openness I needed to different children. What I was aware of the rest of the world was exclusively in Disney motion pictures and those don't discuss cautioning indications of terrible guardians."
Yet, as a high schooler and youthful grown-up, she revolted and things between her and her mom turned fierce. "I made an honest effort to be conscious yet now and then it was hard. She'd call me things like b- - - h, wh- - e, sl-t." On top of the obnoxious attack, Wanderer claims Dee started "hitting, punching, slapping" her to get everything she could possibly want. "It was basically the same as an abusive behaviour at home sort of relationship," she says. "However long you're careless all is well. Set some hard boundaries, then, at that point, it's terrible."
Her choice to have Dee killed came after she'd attempted to take off in front of one more unnecessary strategy, this time on her larynx. "I simply wasn't having it," says Vagabond, who claims she escaped her home, just to be found in practically no time. "She tracked down me, brought me back and set up desk work saying I was uncouth and she had legal authority over me."
By then, Wanderer felt there was no place passed on to turn. "I was making a solid attempt to sort out another way," she says. "That is when there was a discussion among me and my co-litigant Scratch," who she'd met on an internet dating webpage. "He said 'I would effectively safeguard you.' I said, 'Anything?' He said 'OK.'"
Godejohn got a lifelong incarceration for completing the lethal assault. As per late reports, he's said that he'd rehash it assuming it implied saving Vagabond. In any case, Vagabond, following quite a while of reflection, self-work and treatment, says, "She didn't merit that," adding, "She was a debilitated lady and sadly I wasn't sufficiently taught to see that. She should have been where I'm, sitting in jail serving time for a criminal way of behaving."
Likewise, she's anxious to join spouse Ryan Anderson, 37, a Louisiana educator she wedded in a correctional facility last year. "We're enamoured," she says. He alongside her family, previous specialists and numerous others will share their perspectives on her convoluted story in the forthcoming Lifetime docuseries.
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