Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who served eight years in prison for her role in the murder of her mother Clauddine 'Dee Dee' Blanchard, has spoken out on Mother's Day in the US (12 May).
Gypsy Rose, 32, was released from Missouri's Chillicothe Correctional Center back in December 2023.
The unlikely social media star has been making headlines ever since thanks to her tumultuous personal life.
Gypsy Rose is currently going through a divorce with Ryan Anderson and back together with her ex Ken Urker.
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Gypsy Rose was subjected to a series of unnecessary procedures, needlessly bound to a wheelchair and prevented from having a normal life after living a life of 'Munchausen by proxy' at the hands of her mother.
Reflecting on the 2015 murder of her mother, Gypsy Rose told PEOPLE: "I was desperate to get out of that situation.
"Nobody will ever hear me say I'm glad she's dead or I'm proud of what I did. I regret it every single day."
In 2015, Gypsy Rose pleaded with her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, to murder her mother.
He is still behind bars for committing the fatal act.
While Gypsy Rose has already expressed regret over the killing, it seems Mother's Day made her feel even more reflective, and she was compelled to share her thoughts.
She posted a video on TikTok where she spoke directly to the camera.
Her comments included: "It does not go without notice that my biological mother is not here to celebrate Mother’s Day.
"What I choose to feel on Mother’s Day regarding my own mother is that I think the best of her.
"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 and I think that, was she a good mom? No.
"Was she the best mom in the world, no.
"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."
Gypsy Rose continued: "No one can take away my own feelings about my own mother and I feel like nobody should be able to have an opinion about my mother except for her family and me. Because we were the people closest to her, everybody else does not matter."
The video, which has gained almost 300,000 likes, didn't stop there.
Gypsy Rose added: "I choose to remember her for the good that was in her heart that I truly believe was there. I have been working for years on forgiveness and I hope she is in heaven.
"I hope that to some degree I make her proud of at least some of the achievements I have made in my life and 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.
"God 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."
She mused: "Do I have regrets? Oh yeah I have many, but nobody is going to be able to tell me things about myself that I don’t already know."
Gypsy Rose is set to star in an upcoming Lifetime documentary, slated to premiere later this year. This follows The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, which aired in January 2024.
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