Gypsy Rose Blanchard has been released from prison three years before her original release date for the murder of her mother. The Missouri woman sparked hundreds headlines in 2015 (and later, several documentaries and a Hulu miniseries, The Act, starring Joey King) after her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, stabbed Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard 17 times.
The duo had conspired to kill Dee Dee after years of the elder Blanchard forcing her daughter to fake serious illnesses due to Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Blanchard, now 32, was released from the Chillicothe Correctional Center at 3:30 a.m. on Thursday, December 28 in Missouri, and spoke with PEOPLE about her feelings around being released.
