Gypsy Rose’s Grandpa Says She Tried To ‘Touch’ Him Amid Claims He Sexually Abused The Blanchards
Claude Pitre, Gypsy Rose Blanchard's grandfather, directly addressed his granddaughter's claims about sexually abusing her and her mother, Dee Dee, and refuted it with a more shocking claim.
In the upcoming documentary "The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard," her grandfather was reportedly asked about Gypsy Rose's allegations, per People.
Aside from denying the alleged sexual abuse, he reportedly claimed, "She was the one [who] was trying to touch me, and I'd say, 'No, don't do that.'"
"She started doing that when she was about four years old," Pitre added.
According to People, Gypsy Rose only told her mom, Dee Dee, about the sexual abuse when she was 19 years old because she was hesitant at first. After her revelation, her mother also reportedly revealed that she was abused as a child.
"It was hard for us to both come to grips with the fact that we had both been abused by the same person. And I think it makes me wonder what else, what other kind of forms of abuse did she suffer that I don't know about?" Gypsy Rose said.
Gypsy Rose, then 24, received a 10-year prison sentence in 2016 for her role in her mother Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard's murder. Dee Dee was stabbed to death by Gypsy Rose's then-boyfriend Nicholas "Nick" Godejohn in 2015. She was 48.
According to Gypsy Rose, she decided to have her mother killed while trying to run away from other needless surgeries.
She was believed to be a victim of Munchausen by proxy, a mental illness and form of child abuse, where the child's caretaker does extreme things, like making up fake symptoms or causing real symptoms, to make it appear that the child is sick.
After spending eight years in prison, Gypsy Rose was released on Dec. 28, 2023.
Talking about the past, she shared that she regrets her decision to ask her Godejohn to have her mother murdered.
"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," she said.
Gypsy Rose's story will be featured in Lifetime's upcoming docuseries titled "The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose," which will air on Friday at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
With the docuseries, Gypsy Rose hopes that her story will serve as a warning for others not to go through the same path she went through.
"I want to make sure that people in abusive relationships do not resort to murder. It may seem like every avenue is closed off, but there is always another way," she said.
She added, "Do anything, but don't take this course of action."
