Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s final words to her mother Dee Dee as she reveals what really happened the night she helped murder her

Gypsy Rose Blanchard has revealed what happened the night she helped to murder her mother and her final words before her death.

Blanchard, now 33, was 23 when she instructed her boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to stab her mother, Clauddine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard, to death.

She had endured years of abuse from Dee Dee, who falsely claimed she suffered from an array of illnesses, including leukemia and muscular dystrophy. 

Dee Dee shaved her daughter’s head, forced her into a wheelchair, had some of her teeth removed and paraded her at charitable events as a sickly child.

‘I can honestly say I would have never committed that crime had I not been pushed to the brink, where I really just snapped,’ Blanchard said in an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday night.

She revealed her last words to her mother were ‘I love you’.

In July 2015, Godejohn stabbed Dee Dee 14 times in her bedroom in the family home in Springfield, Missouri.

Blanchard said she was desperate to ‘be free’ and had tried ‘to exhaust all the options that I thought was available to me’.

‘I could [hear her] and in that moment, I wanted to help her. But I was almost paralysed in my skin,’ Blanchard recalled.

‘I don’t think people understand the emotional hold that an abuser has on their victims.’

Blanchard and Godejohn were promptly arrested and both were sentenced to various prison terms in the following years. 

Godejohn remains behind bars serving a life sentence while Blanchard was released on December 28, 2023.

She has since found love with Ken Urker – a pen pal from her time in prison – and they recently welcomed their daughter, Aurora.

Blanchard admitted she will be open with her daughter when she is older about what happened to her grandmother.   

‘I will always be honest with her,’ she said.

‘My will to be a better mother than what my mother was is so strong that I’m not going to continue the cycle.’

In a 2019 jail interview, Godejohn – who is autistic and had prior offences for indecent exposure at the time of his 2015 arrest – said he wished he had never carried out the killing.

‘If I had to change anything at all, of course, one of the obvious ones is that I would’ve ran away with Gypsy. I don’t want to be staying with a murder on my hands.

‘Being labelled as a killer … I don’t want to stay with that, but I’ll live with it.

‘I want to let everyone know that I’m not this cold killer that doesn’t have any feelings. I’m a human being.

‘Human beings make mistakes’ he told Oxygen in a documentary.