The Missourian Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who convinced her internet lover to kill her mother after forcing her to pretend for years that she had muscular dystrophy, leukemia, and other terrible ailments, is scheduled to be released from prison on Thursday.

National tabloid attention was drawn to the issue after it was revealed that Gypsy Blanchard’s mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, who passed away in 2015, had effectively imprisoned her daughter by requiring her to utilize a feeding tube and a wheelchair.

Gypsy Blanchard, who is currently 32 years old, was not developmentally retarded as those around her had always thought; instead, she was in excellent health. According to her trial counsel Michael Stanfield, her mother had Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychiatric ailment in which parents or caregivers try to win others over by inventing or exaggerating their children’s problems.

He claimed, “Dee Dee was receiving all of this attention, and people were always complimenting her on what a great mother she was.”

Through the scheme, the mother and daughter were introduced to country music artist Miranda Lambert, and they also won philanthropic gifts, a vacation to Disney World, and even a Habitat for Humanity house close to Springfield.

Stanfield alleged that Gypsy Blanchard’s mother tricked medical professionals by claiming that Hurricane Katrina had destroyed her daughter’s medical records. She simply hired a new doctor, shaving the girl’s head to support her narrative, if they persisted in asking too many questions. The excision of Gypsy Blanchard’s salivary glands was one of the needless surgeries she had. Her mother used topical anesthetic to induce drooling in order to persuade the physicians that it was essential.

Stanfield claimed that Gypsy Blanchard, who didn’t go to school or interact with anybody outside of her mother, was likewise duped, particularly in her early years.

“Everything that your physicians are telling you appears to be confirmed. You are being told by others that your mother is an amazing, devoted, and kind person. What other notion do you possess? stated Stanfield.

But after that, Stanfield claimed, the abuse become more violent. According to Gypsy’s testimony, her mother threw her into a bed and beat her. Gypsy was also starting to realize, slowly, that she wasn’t as unwell as her mother had said.

“I desired to be liberated from her grip on me,” Gypsy stated during her 2018 testimony at the trial of her ex-boyfriend, Big Bend, Wisconsin’s Nicholas Godejohn, who is incarcerated for life for the murder. She said, “I talked him into it,” after that.

Because of the abuse she had suffered, prosecutors had already made her a deal before she took the witness during his trial. She received a 10-year jail term in return for admitting guilt to second-degree murder in 2016. She was initially facing a first-degree murder accusation, which carried a life sentence.

Godejohn’s trial lawyer, Dewayne Perry, contended in court that his client, who has autism, was duped and that “Nick was so in love and so obsessed with her that he would do anything.”

But the prosecution contended that his motivations were sexual in nature and that he wanted to be with Gypsy Blanchard, whom he had met on a Christian dating service.

The probable cause statement claims that Gypsy Blanchard provided the knife and concealed herself in a restroom as Godejohn repeatedly attacked her mother. In the end, the two traveled to Wisconsin via bus, where they were taken into custody. Since then, she has been detained at a Chillicothe state women’s jail.

As the peculiar findings started to surface, Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott said, “Things are not always as they appear.”

Gypsy had lied about her age as well. Due to Gypsy’s diminutive stature—she was only 4 feet, 11 inches (150 cm) tall—her mother had lied about her age in order to facilitate the fraud and got away with it.

The original court filings showed three different ages for her, the youngest being 19. This caused confusion for law enforcement at first. Her age was 23.

According to Dan Patterson, the prosecutor for Greene County, the case is “one of the more extraordinary and unusual cases that we’ve seen.”

Stanfield recounted that Gypsy had gasped for air on the 75-yard (69-meter) trip from the elevator to the room where he had first spoken to her. She was thin and undernourished, according to his description.

Stanfield remarked, “I’m really not sure that I’ve ever had a client who looks so much better after serving a fairly lengthy prison sentence.” “Being incarcerated typically does not lead to happiness or good health. That’s why I say that—in my opinion, it serves as proof to the outside world of how terrible Gypsy’s ordeal truly was.

Gypsy Blanchard remarked afterwards that she didn’t understand how healthy she was until after her arrest. But it required some time. Eventually, she eventually married Ryan Scott Anderson, a 37-year-old resident of Saint Charles, Louisiana, while incarcerated.

The 2019 Hulu miniseries “The Act,” the 2017 HBO documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest,” and the forthcoming Lifetime docuseries “The Prison Confession of Gypsy Rose Blanchard” were all inspired by this strange case. From behind bars, she was questioned by psychologist “Dr. Phil” McGraw on daytime television. The basis of the novel “Darling Rose Gold” is derived from this event, and Blanchard’s autobiography “Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom” will be released next month.

Speaking amid the media frenzy, Karen Pojmann, a spokesperson for the prisons department, stated that no live coverage of her release on Thursday will be permitted “in the interest of protecting safety, security, and privacy.”