Gypsy Rose Blanchard is a longtime Swiftie!
“I became a fan of Taylor Swift when I was probably about 17, and she was just starting out in country music, and I loved her music then,” Blanchard, now 32, tells PEOPLE at the premiere of her Lifetime documentary: Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
The Munchausen syndrome victim by proxy (MSP), who was released from prison on December 28, adds that she “felt like [Swift] was just a total rock star.”
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“I think it’s just about empowering girls and that’s why I respond so well to it, because right now I’m getting into the lifestyle of a girl empowerment atmosphere,” Blanchard says. “So I just get it.”
“I understand her music and I think she is an artist who conquers women,” he adds.
Gypsy cemented her status as a Swiftie — and revealed some of her favorite Swift songs — in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
“I’m a Swiftie,” Gypsy, 32, told the paper, adding that “all her songs are really, really good.”
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One of her favorite Swift songs is “Eyes Open,” a song the pop star wrote for the 2012 soundtrack. Hunger GamesGypsy said.
Gypsy also told The Hollywood Reporter that she “really digs” Midnight hit “Karma” at the moment.
“‘Karma’ is what I played a lot on my playlist,” she said.
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Gypsy was released early from the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri last month after serving eight years in prison for plotting to kill her mother, Dee Dee, with ex-boyfriend Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn.
In 2016, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. Godejohn, 32, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
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Dee Dee subjected Gypsy to unnecessary medical treatments and convinced her daughter and others that the now 32-year-old had a number of childhood illnesses.
It was claimed in court that Gypsy was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a form of child abuse that involves exaggerating or inducing the illness of a parent or caregiver to gain sympathy.
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