Gypsy Rose Blanchard has revealed further details about her abusive childhood, including when she attempted to shoot her mom before realizing that it wasn't a real gun.
The 32-year-old was released from prison on December 28 after serving seven years of the 10-year sentence she was given for her involvement in the murder of her mother, Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard.
In Lifetime's The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a new docuseries, Gypsy Rose has shed more light on the abuse she faced at the hands of her mother.
Gypsy Rose was the victim of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy at the hands of her mother. Munchausen Syndrome by proxy is a mental illness where ailments are projected onto another for someone's personal gain.
Dee Dee's motivations remain unknown, but investigators have claimed that she could have subjected her daughter to years of unnecessary medical treatments for financial gain, or to gain great control over Gypsy Rose.
In 2015, Gypsy Rose sought the help of Nicholas Godejohn to free her from her mother's abuse and asked her now ex-boyfriend to murder her mother. But, as it has now been revealed, this wasn't the first time that she had attempted to take her mother's life.
Four years prior, Gypsy Rose ran away from home to meet a friend in Arkansas, but when Dee Dee caught up with her, she brought her home and tied her to her bed while smashing up her computer.
It was after this, that Dee Dee purchased a gun.
"That scared the ever-living ‘f’ out of me," Gypsy said in the documentary. "I was afraid that she would kill me. … I was afraid she would do something worse than hitting me or starving me."
When Gypsy attempted to flee again, she grabbed the weapon after being confronted by her mother and held Dee Dee at gunpoint.
"And before I knew it, I pulled the trigger as many times as I could," she said.
Gypsy Rose claims that she pulled the trigger 10 times, but when her mother was still alive after the attack, she realized that it was a BB gun.
"When I shot my mother, I just remember thinking, 'Oh my god, did I just do that? What did I just do?' A couple of them hit her, a couple of them hit the wall. But the wounds were superficial, it barely grazed her," Gypsy Rose said. "That's when I realized it was a BB gun and that made me feel relieved.
"I did not intend to kill her. But I was shocked I pulled the trigger at all."
Dee Dee used the scenario to her advantage, claiming that she had been robbed in a Walmart parking lot - with the assailant using a pellet gun to injure her. Gypsy Rose stated that she was relieved that she hadn't killed her mother, but was still angry.
"Why won’t you let me have a normal life? Why is my life this way to begin with?” she asked after the shooting. “She kept reiterating that she takes care of me and I need special care."
"My mom was such a good master manipulator that she was able to slip me right back into submission again."
Elsewhere in the documentary, Gypsy revealed that she sent a chilling video to Godejohn which detailed the layout of her home so he could find his way around during the night of the murder. She also made a stabbing action over her mother's bed, which she now claims she did because she was high on pain medication.
