It’s a strange day when gypsy Rose Blanchard misses her mother.
Earlier this summer, news from Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s pregnancy caused mixed reactions among his supporters.
Some fear she is making a mistake – or several mistakes. And others are happy that she can finally make her own choices after losing her. whole life to an abusive mother and then to an unfair legal system.
Mrs. Rose Blanchard has other things on her mind. Including the sadness that, of all people, your dead mother won’t be around.
Why does Gypsy Rose Blanchard miss her mother?
On Wednesday, October 16th, Ms. Rose Blanchard spoke with Nick Viall on his podcast The Viall Viles.
The 33-year-old is pregnant and expecting a daughter with her boyfriend Ken Urker. A year ago, she was still behind bars, losing years of her life to the prison system due to the death of Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.
“I mean, for me it’s painful because every now and then I think about what could have been,” Blanchard admitted. “And that makes me sad.”
“So I kind of put it in the back of my mind,” Rose Blanchard said. “And so, I mean, there have been questions on social media.”
She explained: “Everyone asked the question, you know, ‘What are you going to tell your daughter whenever grandma isn’t around?’”
Blanchard gave the answer: “My answer to them is that Kristy has become more of a mother to me than my own mother,” she said of her stepmother, Kristy Blanchard. “Kristy is going to be a grandma.”
Is this hypocritical of her, all things considered?
In fact, it is extremely normal for survivors of abuse who have escaped – in one way or another – to have thoughts about their abuser, to miss aspects about them, and to wonder what things it could it has been like that. (Imagination is generally healthy – it is only dangerous if it leads someone to reconnect with an abuser)
Part of this is due to the psychological damage that abusers cause their victims. Whether it’s partner violence or a parent poisoning and incapacitating their child due to an extreme case of Munchausen by proxy, abusers dominate their victims’ thoughts – often for years or decades. This can be difficult to let go of.
Another part of this phenomenon is just that it is very It’s normal to wish the people in your life were better people. For Rose Blanchard to wish her mother was a decent human being and could one day be a grandmother makes perfect sense.
Because our criminal justice system often mocks the term “justice,” Ms. Rose Blanchard had to spend eight years of her life behind bars.
The court sentenced her to 10 years in prison for conspiring with her then-boyfriend Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn to murder her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard.
Blanchard is another high-profile case of an abused child who only saw escape after everyone else in her life failed her.
Now, she has (mostly) a fresh start
Unlike other cases, such as the Menendez brothers who continue to serve unfair prison sentences, Blanchard was able to get out of prison in December 2023.
Since then, she appeared on reality showsexperienced sudden social media stardom and rethought a toxic marriage. And of course, she and her boyfriend are now expecting.
We cannot expect Ms. Rose Blanchard to make the same choices that other people would make. She lived a very different life. However, for the first time in her life, she is able to make her own choices. That’s a good thing.