Gypsy Rose Blanchard has alleged in an upcoming docuseries that she was sexually abused by her grandfather when she was a child. Her grandfather has since responded to the shocking claim.
The allegation came to the fore in Lifetime's The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, which is yet to premiere on January 5.
After serving eight years for the 2015 murder of her abusive mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, Gypsy Rose - a victim of Munchausen by proxy - was released from prison on Thursday (December 28).
Check out this sneak peek of The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard:
Gypsy Rose shared her claim that she was molested by her grandfather Claude Pitre in an interview with People, stating that the alleged abuse continued for around a year.
“I've gotten to a point where I can stand on my own two feet and say, this happened to me and I'm not going to let it affect me anymore,” she told People about the alleged abuse. “And that's why I'm talking about it now. And I think for me, making it known that it happened might prevent him from doing the same thing to another family member or another child or another person because he's still alive.”
When Pitre was asked about the claim in the documentary, he denied it and made a rather shocking claim of his own about his granddaughter, claiming it was she that would touch him inappropriately from the age of just four years old.
“She was the one that was trying to touch me, and I’d say no, don’t do that,” Pitre said in the documentary. “She started doing that when she was about four years old.”
After being informed about her grandfather’s claim, Gypsy Rose told a producer that she wanted “nothing to do with him.”
Gypsy Rose told People she was reluctant to tell her mother about the alleged abuse, revealing that she was 19 years old when she eventually told Dee Dee, a decade after she said it started.
“I fully told her everything that happened, and she proceeded to let me know that he had done the same thing to her when she was a child as well,” Gypsy Rose said. “It was hard for us to both come to grips with the fact that we had both been abused by the same person. And I think it makes me wonder what else, what other kind of forms of abuse did she suffer that I don't know about?”
Back in 2015, Gypsy Rose and her former boyfriend Nicholas "Nick" Godejohn conspired to kill her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, who subjected her daughter to severe mental and physical abuse throughout her life.
Dee Dee, suffering from Munchausen by proxy, forced Blanchard into a wheelchair, administered unnecessary medications, and fabricated debilitating illnesses like muscular dystrophy and leukemia to deceive their friends, family, and community.
Dee Dee's reign of terror ultimately met its end in 2015 when Nicholas carried out her murder. Both Gypsy Rose and Nicholas faced the consequences of their actions, receiving prison sentences for their roles in the gruesome crime.
Nicholas remains incarcerated at the Potosi Correctional Center, with a recent attempt to overturn his conviction for ineffective counsel denied in March 2023.
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