When Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Nicholas Godejohn carried out the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard, the two thought they were deeply in love. However, their arrest and extended incarceration proved to be too much to keep the relationship together. Eventually, Gypsy stopped having romantic feelings for Godejohn altogether, after realizing that the relationship was extremely unhealthy for her. In addition, part of the terms of her parole, following her 2023 release, is that she cannot contact Godejohn.
In 2019, three years after beginning her sentence, Gypsy became engaged for the first time. However, the relationship did not work out, and they called off the wedding. After that relationship ended, a man named Ryan Scott Anderson began writing Blanchard in 2020, while the COVID-19 pandemic was going on. Gypsy responded, and they began exchanging letters and talking on the phone, before eventually meeting in person while Gypsy was still behind bars.
In June 2022, the two formally obtained a marriage license, and they got married a month later at the prison. Anderson is also a native of Louisiana, like Blanchard, and is six years her senior.
