Godejohn is sentenced to life in prison.In some ways, Becky Cooper’s true crime book We Keep the Dead Close gives in to some of the genre’s worst impulses. Though Gypsy is currently in prison, she told ABC News she feels freer behind bars than she ever did with her mother. There was, also, a sense of sympathy and community support for the family, who was beloved by the community.īlanchard was murdered by Gypsy and her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, in 2015.

Though Blanchard's true motives are unknown, it's common knowledge Blanchard and Gypsy profited from gifted trips to Disney World, a home built for their family and were granted a series of other financial gains. Many caregivers with the illness keep those in their care sick for sympathy. Throughout most of her life, Gypsy believed she had all of the listed illnesses. As a child, Blanchard told Gypsy and others her daughter suffered from Leukemia and Muscular Dystrophy, among other illnesses and physical concerns, like brain damage.

It advises to hide their search history and keep information stored safely with a friend, so as to not anger a potentially dangerous caregiver.īlanchard kept Gypsy sick with a plethora of medications, overexaggerated and falsified medical complaints, and lies. The website's explanation begins with a warning to those reading who feel they may be the victim of the illness. Because vulnerable people are the victims, MSBP is a form of child abuse or elder abuse,' according to the University of Michigan Medicine website. So what, exactly, is the illness? Munchausen syndrome by proxy is 'a mental health problem in which a caregiver makes up or causes an illness or injury in a person under his or her care, such as a child, an elderly adult, or a person who has a disability. The Act is true story, even though in Hulu's adaptation, actors take on the dramatization of what was once reality. In 2018, it took center stage in HBO special Sharp Objects, based on the book of the same name by Gillian Flynn. Munchausen syndrome by proxy, while a fairly rare illness, has begun to creep its way into fictionalized stories. The series explores Blanchard's Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental illness that encouraged her to keep her only daughter, Gypsy, sick through childhood and into early adulthood.

Though Gypsy Rose Blanchard may not have been truly sick, her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, was. Hulu's latest original series, The Act, focuses on the perception of illness.

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