After her early release from prison Thursday, Gypsy Rose Blanchard was picked up by her husband, and the car he was driving had Bret Hart’s wrestling license plate reading “HITMAN.”
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Gypsy, who served eight years in prison for her mother’s murder, was granted parole earlier this year and was released from the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri around 3:30 a.m. local time, the Missouri Department of Corrections confirmed to PEOPLE.
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s husband picked her up after her early release from prison.
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“I’m ready for freedom,” she told PEOPLE in an exclusive interview shortly before her release.
After the stabbing death of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, Gypsy and her then-boyfriend, Nick Godejohn, were charged with murder. Gypsy pleaded guilty in 2016 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Last year, behind bars, she married Ryan Scott Anderson, a special education teacher from Louisiana.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard released from 10-year prison sentence shortly after mother’s murder: ‘I’m ready’ (Exclusive)
Until her arrest, Gypsy was long thought to be suffering from a number of serious health conditions. It is now widely believed that she was a victim of Munchausen by proxy, a form of child abuse that involves a caregiver exaggerating or inducing illness to gain sympathy.
Dee Dee, who in her lifetime convinced people her daughter was terminally ill, allegedly subjected Gypsy to painful medical treatments that were never necessary.
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In her testimony in court, Gypsy said she persuaded Godejohn, whom she met online, to kill her mother. Godejohn was convicted of first-degree murder in 2019 and sentenced to life in prison without parole, according to court records. Godejohn and Gypsy have since separated.
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Gypsy now says that her mother did not “deserve” her final fate.
“She was a sick woman, and unfortunately I wasn’t educated enough to see that,” Gypsy told PEOPLE. “She deserved to be where I am, sitting in jail and serving time for criminal behavior.”
Gypsy also told PEOPLE that she can’t wait to be with her husband after getting out, saying “we’re in love.”
Gypsy is now ready to tell her own story in a new Lifetime docu-series Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchardwhich premieres January 5th on Lifetime at 8:00 PM ET/PT.
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