Gypsy Rose Blanchard had been treated as a sickly patient from childhood well into adulthood because of her mother, Dee Dee, and her diabolical ruse. As she grew older, she realized that she was perfectly healthy. “There are certain illnesses that I knew I didn’t have. I knew that I didn’t need the feeding tube. I knew that I could eat, and I knew that I could walk,” she shared in the ABC News interview. Contrary to the plethora of health issues she was convinced she had, she clarified that her only real medical condition was a minor visual impairment. “The only thing I had wrong with me is I have a little bit of a lazy eye. Not all the time, but I have better vision in [my left] eye than I do [in my right] eye,” she explained. “That’s it.”
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But it took her a long time to stand up against her mother, chalking it up to sheer naivete. “I was so young, so me looking up to her so much and just believing she knows best — I didn’t question it.” In the Discovery documentary “Gypsy’s Revenge,” she also admitted that fear held her back and continued isolation made her situation even worse. “I couldn’t just jump out of the wheelchair because I was afraid and I didn’t know what my mother would do,” Gypsy Rose said. “I didn’t have anyone to trust.”
