Episode 91- Munchausen by Proxy: The Abuse of Gypsy Rose and Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard
That's So Fcked Up
Ashley Love Richards
4.5 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Ash covers the abuse of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and the subsequent murder of her mother Dee Dee. Gypsy suffered extreme physical and mental abuse at the hands of Dee Dee, who had Munchausen by proxy, for decades. Once she could no longer face the daily horrors that were her life, feeling she had no other way out, Gypsy turned to murder.
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| 0:00.0 | Didi's Munchausen by proxy meant that Gypsy had been, forced through unnecessary medical procedures akin to torture, kept in a wheelchair despite not needing it, given medication for epilepsy that made her teeth crumble and she had to have them extracted, given no formal schooling past second grade. |
| 0:21.9 | That is so fucked up. |
| 0:25.1 | It's fucked up. |
| 0:26.1 | So fucked up. |
| 0:28.1 | It is just so damn fucked up. |
| 0:32.1 | That's fucked up. |
| 0:37.3 | As I was like, fucked up. |
| 0:38.3 | As I was like finishing up my research for this yesterday, right as I was wrapping it up, I realized that I covered the double abduction of Jan Broberg and abducted in plain sight last week. |
| 0:55.0 | And then I'm doing this. |
| 0:56.3 | And I was like, wow, Ashley, that is two heavy hitters in a row. |
| 1:02.7 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:03.3 | Everyone's going to think that you're, like, obsessed with the abuse of young girls by their parents. |
| 1:08.8 | And then I had, like, an aha moment. |
| 1:12.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.3 | So, like, I'm definitely, like, working through some pretty heavy mama trauma in |
| 1:20.3 | therapy right now. |
| 1:22.0 | Oh. |
| 1:22.9 | And I was like, no, what? |
| 1:25.3 | I think that I might be kind of, I don't know. I just feel like that might be |
| 1:30.0 | playing into my choice. Like, and especially because in both of these stories, like I feel so |
| 1:35.3 | much for who I consider to be the victims. One of our listeners, what up, Ophelia, pointed out, |
| 1:40.9 | she was like, you had such mama bear energy in that episode about Jan. |
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