Gypsy Rose Blanchard is taking a moment to reflect on life after prison. For starters, she longs for a more private life.
In a series of lengthy TikTok videos she posted on Thursday, the 32-year-old explained why she recently deleted her Instagram account, which at its peak garnered more than 7.8 million followers. Since then, Blanchard has made her account private and she will keep it that way.
“I do my best to live my authentic life and what’s real to me, and what’s not real is social media,” she explained. “Social media is literally a door to hell. the next person, taking selfies and just acting like an idiot. It’s the simple things in life, right?
Blanchard confirmed that she did not just temporarily deactivate her account. She deleted it permanently.
“What happened is I had a really good talk with my dad, actually. He gave me some guidance that I feel like I really needed. And that guidance was to show me that real life is something you can touch, something you can feel,” she said. “People that you can actually hug. And with public scrutiny as bad as it is, I just didn’t want to live my life under a microscope. So I created my private Instagram. And I was able to verify it. And I had no problems or doubts about exclude that audience.”
Blanchard said people wonder why someone would delete a social media account with so many followers, but she is convinced she couldn’t “give a shit about followers.”
“That’s not real life,” she added.
Blanchard was Released from jail in December, after serving 85 percent of his 10-year prison sentence. In 2016, she pleaded guilty to second-degree murder after she and Nicholas Godejohn hatched a plan to kill her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, which he ended up carrying out. Godejohn was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Following his release from prison, Blanchard ran a media campaign to promote Lifetime’s highly anticipated docuseries, The prison confessions of gypsy Rose Blanchard. The turbulent experience of going on a promotional tour was exactly that, an experience, but also super confusing for her.
Blanchard said he didn’t understand why people were so interested in his life. Yes, she had the opportunity to visit New York and conduct several interviews in front of a bunch of cameras, but “that’s not my life.”
“One specific thing I said was on a podcast. I said that I don’t identify as the ‘M’ word, that we all know what the ‘M’ word is. And what I meant by that wasn’t that I It wasn’t… not that I’m not labeled as the ‘M’ word; I know I am,” she said. “But it’s not like I go into a job interview and say, ‘Hi, my name is Gypsy Blanchard. I’m an ‘M’ word.’ That’s not what I meant by that. I meant that my past does not define my future. My future is what I do. And I know I did something wrong in my crime and that’s something I have to live with.
Now that the attention has died down a bit, Blanchard said she’s working on herself through therapy. She thanked everyone who supported her and “walked this journey with me.” But ultimately, Blanchard said she wants to step away from the spotlight and live a private life, and the first steps toward that journey were getting rid of her famous Instagram account.
“I still have my TikTok public, for now,” she added. “I would consider deleting it in a few months. I might not post as much.”
In January, ET spoke with Blanchardwho said he couldn’t “comprehend” the attention he received through social media.
“I don’t even understand it at this point because, to me, I’m just another face in the crowd,” Blanchard told ET. “So when I got out of prison, I didn’t expect this huge wave of social media, you know? I’m posting selfies just like anyone would or the next person would without thinking anything about it. it) has 2 million views. I’m like, ‘OK?!'”
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