Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who gained national attention for her involvement in the murder of her allegedly abusive mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, has announced her separation from husband Ryan Scott Anderson just three months after her release from prison. In a private Facebook post obtained by People magazine, the 32-year-old confirmed the split and her decision to move in with her parents in Louisiana.
"People have been asking what is going on in my life. Unfortunately my husband and I are going through a separation and I moved in with my parents home down the bayou," Blanchard wrote. "I have the support of my family and friends to help guide me through this. I am learning to listen to my heart. Right now I need time to let myself find... who I am."
Blanchard had served more than eight years in the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri for plotting the murder of her mother with her then-boyfriend, Nick Godejohn. She was released in December 2023 and had married Anderson, a Louisiana special education teacher, in a jailhouse ceremony in July 2022.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard announces divorce from husband Ryan Anderson. ️ pic.twitter.com/vrmTOeY9AL — DramaAlert (@DramaAlert) March 29, 2024
In an interview with People magazine ahead of her early release, Blanchard had expressed her excitement about starting a life with Anderson and her plans to have a reception and redo their wedding with family and friends. "We do plan on having a reception/redo wedding with all of our family and our friends and the dress and the cake and everything because we deserve that. I deserve that. He deserves that," she said at the time.
However, the relationship has come to an end just months after Blanchard's release. It's not clear when their relationship started, though Anderson says he first wrote to Blanchard in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic after being inspired by a colleague's desire to correspond with imprisoned Tiger King star Joe Exotic.
Blanchard's case garnered significant attention due to the shocking revelations about her mother's alleged abuse. Dee Dee Blanchard was found dead in June 2015, and it was later discovered that she had subjected Gypsy to unnecessary medical treatments and convinced her daughter and others that she had a litany of illnesses as a child. In court, it was argued that Gypsy was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a form of child abuse that involves a guardian exaggerating or inducing illness to gain sympathy.
Gypsy pleaded guilty to her mother's murder in 2016 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Her then-boyfriend, Nick Godejohn, was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2019 following his trial conviction for first-degree murder.
Earlier this month, Blanchard shared a video on TikTok before deleting her social media platforms, apologizing for her lack of accountability in the first month after her release from prison and in her interviews. "I'm sorry. I'm learning. I take accountability for my part, and I'm saying this right now. I'm taking accountability. I did a bad thing," she said in the video.
A source explained to People that Blanchard deleted her social media accounts "at the advisement of her parole officer, so she won't get in trouble and go back to jail."
