Gypsy Rose Blanchard gives interview on eve of prison release

[mayjailer]

Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Set to Be Freed From Prison, Regrets Murdering Mother: 'She Didn’t Deserve That' (Exclusive) https://t.co/hmO0jacofS
- People (@people) December 27, 2023

On Thursday, December 28, Gypsy Rose Blanchard will be released on parole from Missouri's Chillicothe Correctional Center, eight years after accepting a plea bargain to the

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[ahkna]

Honestly, this young woman's mother did need to die and she did deserve it. She was going to kill this girl.

[ginainabottle]

Yeah, maybe I'm just a bad person but I'm not here for any of the ~life is sacred~ bullshit. The world would definitely be a better place - and many innocent lives would be spared of trauma and pain - if some people indeed were dead.

[melancolour]

The issue comes that there will always be flaws in determining who "deserves" to die. So you either have to accept innocent/ not worthy to die people dying, or that innocent people staying alive is worth bad people living too.

[ahkna]

I don't condone murder, in most cases. And I'm fully against the death penalty but I am also truly ambivalent about abusers reaping what they've sown all at once. I'll support a victim killing their abuser 100 times out of 100.

In this specific case I genuinely can see no other way Gypsy would ever be free.

[fernandocolunga]

Wait her mom was keeping her prisoner, she got herself away from that abuser and the solution was to put her in prison again? Fuck that

[fauxkaren]

Basically, yes.

Her mom was keeping her prisoner and abusing her, forcing her to have medical procedures done that she did not need. Gypsy didn't see a way out other than killing her mother. Gypsy should not have been sentenced to any prison time. It was self-defense, imo.

[yurasama_love]

You know what's so sad? She said she felt more free in prison than she ever did with her mom.

[astro_boi]

girl .. so many pod cats have covered it.. its wild from the start.

[cruel11]

The system failed her. Shouldn’t have been sentenced. Her mother was a monster.

[theactualworst]

I hope she does well in life and has a good support system. I’d hate to see her fall victim to another scammer/abuser.

I also don’t think the world is a worse place without her mother in it and I will leave it at that.

[ilovespooons]

I think most of us agree she did deserve it but this is such a mature, empathetic thing to say. It's making me even sadder to think about where she could be today if she had an ok childhood.