Gypsy-Rose Blanchard took to social media to remember her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard on Mother’s Day just short of a decade from her murder.
In a lengthy video shared to TikTok, Blanchard took a moment to explain why she was sharing the video and why she even turned off comments on the video.
@gypsyblanchard.tiktok Happy Mothers Day to the wonderful women in my life💐 @Kristy M Blanchard @Raina Williams
“Today is Mother’s Day, and I wanted to make a video basically celebrating the really strong and wonderful women that I have in my life that have been mother figures to me over the last eight and a half years,” Blanchard said in the video. “I first one to start off by saying I did turn off the comments to this video because I don’t want to hear any negative bull—-. If you want to talk s— about me, by all means, I don’t give an F. Go do it on your own platform, but I’m not going to see it in my comments.”
Dee Dee was killed in 2015 by Nicholas Godejohn, Blanchard’s previous boyfriend, who plotted together alongside the former inmate.
“It does not go without notice that my own biological mother is not here to celebrate Mother’s Day and what I choose to feel on Mother’s Day regarding my own mother is that I think the best of her,” Blanchard says in the video. “I think about the good times. I think about her as not what she did to me, but I think about her as a person … Was she a good mom? No. Was she the best mom in the world? No.
She went on to add, “But she was still my mom so what I choose to feel about her, whether that be guilt, anger, grief, resentment — whatever. That’s mine to feel. No one can take away my own feelings about my own mother, and I feel like no one should be able to have an opinion about my mother except for her family and me because we were the people closest to her.”
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Gypsy-Rose, who is now 32, is believed to have been a victim of Munchausen by proxy at the hands of her mother for years
“I choose to remember her for the good that was in her heart that I truly believe was there,” Gypsy-Rose added in the TikTok video.
She also admitted, “I have been working for years on forgiveness, and I hope that she is in heaven, and I hope that to some degree I make her proud of at least some of the achievements that I’ve made in my life in growing up and standing on my own two feet, learning through experiences, because in heaven, they say that all mental afflictions, all physical afflictions are gone, right? It makes you perfect in heaven, so if you take away the mental afflictions that my mother had, then I think what’s left is a good person.”
The Lifetime star also took a moment to speak about her stepmother, Kristy Blanchard.
She also thanked a family friend she called “Aunt Vickie” and her boyfriend Ken Urker’s mother, Raina Williams.
“She’s been such an accepting person of me, like, I never thought I’d be accepted and loved for who I am,” Blanchard said. “Take Ken out of the equation, she still loves me for me.”
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Gypsy-Rose recently got tattoos with Urker shortly after announcing her separation from her husband Ryan Scott Anderson.
Blanchard ended the video mentioning to all of the women in her life around her: “Thank you for loving me through a time that I felt unlovable and accepting me no matter what, cause that means everything to me.”
