Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who served as the basis for Joey King's role on Hulu series 'The Act,' will be released from prison early after pleading guilty to her mother's 2015 murder.
on Dec. 28, roughly two years before the end of her original 10-year sentence. In 2016, Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for her role in the death of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, who was found dead in June 2015.
Representatives for the Missouri Department of Corrections did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.Gypsy Rose Blanchard; Joey King in 'The Act'The 32-year-old's boyfriend, Nick Godejohn, who she met on the internet, was also charged with first-degree murder in the case and sentenced to life in prison after he stabbed Dee Dee 17 times while Gypsy waited in the bathroom.
The case revealed that Dee Dee had lied for years about her daughter having a wide range of conditions, from leukemia to muscular dystrophy. Gypsy maintained that she was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a form of abuse the describes as a "mental illness in which a person acts as if an individual he or she is caring for has a physical or mental illness when the person is not really sick."In addition to
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