Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who spent eight years behind bars for her function within the homicide of her abusive mom, has formally filed for divorce from Ryan Scott Anderson.
The ex-couple was married for lower than two years. Blanchard and Anderson, each 37, wed in 2022 whereas Blanchard was serving time for second-degree homicide on the Chillicothe Correctional Middle in Missouri.
Blanchard filed for divorce on Monday, although the grounds for submitting aren’t but public.
Earlier than Monday, Blanchard introduced on her private Fb web page in March that she could be separating from Anderson.
The information happened three months after Blanchard’s jail launch.
“Individuals have been asking what’s going on in my life. Sadly, my husband and I are going by a separation and I moved in with my dad and mom, down the bayou,” Blanchard wrote, based on Individuals journal. “I’ve the help of my household and associates to assist information me by this. I’m studying to take heed to my coronary heart.”
Blanchard has in any other case not spoken publicly concerning the divorce.
Anderson, who’s a special-education instructor from Louisiana, posted a TikTok video on Sunday thanking his social media followers for the “help and good messages.”
“I’m simply dwelling my life, guys,” Anderson mentioned, including that he was at a pal’s home to look at WrestleMania.
Anderson mentioned individuals will “actually see what occurred” between he and Blanchard in an upcoming Lifetime particular that can doc Blanchard’s life after jail.
The couple met after Anderson despatched Blanchard a letter whereas she was an inmate on the Chillicothe Correctional Middle.
Within the days after saying the separation, Blanchard was noticed in Louisiana getting matching tattoos along with her ex-fiancé Ken Urker. The pair grew to become engaged in 2018 whereas Blanchard was imprisoned, however known as it off the next yr.
After Blanchard’s jail launch, she grew a big social media following and starred in a docuseries known as The Jail Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard. Final month, Blanchard deleted a number of of her social media accounts in what she mentioned was an effort to defend her privateness. In a since-deleted TikTok video, Blanchard mentioned she felt “remorse” for her post-prison press tour and apologized “to all of the those who I offended with an absence of accountability.”
Who’s Gypsy Rose Blanchard?
Blanchard, an abuse sufferer, was initially handed a 10-year sentence after she inspired her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to kill her mom, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, in June 2015.
For years, Blanchard was led to imagine by her mom that she had quite a few severe ailments, together with leukemia, muscular dystrophy and mind harm. Gypsy underwent quite a few surgical procedures, used a wheelchair and an oxygen tank and sometimes believed she was combating for her life.
After Gypsy’s arrest it revealed that Dee Dee had fabricated the listing of well being situations. It’s broadly believed Dee Dee suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological well being dysfunction that includes a caregiver projecting diagnoses or inducing signs in a dependent.
Throughout her trial, Gypsy admitted that she requested Godejohn, who she met in 2012 on a Christian courting web site, to kill her mom. Godejohn fatally stabbed Dee Dee 17 occasions whereas she slept in her house the place she and Gypsy lived collectively. Through the assault, Gypsy waited within the house’s lavatory along with her ears lined.
Blanchard was granted parole in September after serving 85 per cent of her sentence.
Godejohn was sentenced to life in jail for the homicide. He won’t be granted parole.
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