The Missouri Department of Corrections confirmed on Thursday that Gypsy Rose Blanchard will be paroled at the end of December from Chillicothe Correctional Center, after serving seven of the ten years she was sentenced for her involvement in the 2015 murder of her mother, Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard.
The details of the Blanchard case were made widely known in the 2017 HBO documentary, "Mommy Dead and Dearest," directed by Erin Lee Carr, which recounted the years of abuse that Gypsy Rose suffered at the hands of her mother, who robbed her of her childhood by making it seem as though she had a variety of illnesses she didn't actually have.
