“I by no means instructed anybody about this earlier than,” Gypsy Rose says in a brand new doc as she reveals she stole her mother’s Vicodin, earlier than opening up in regards to the “peer stress” she skilled and the “unhealthy selections I remorse” behind bars.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is telling her story in contrast to ever earlier than in a brand new documentary full of shocking new revelations about her life.
Earlier than she was launched from jail for her function in mother Dee Dee’s homicide again in 2015, the alleged sufferer of Munchausen by proxy  — now referred to as Factitious dysfunction imposed on one other — opened up in a sequence of latest interviews for Lifetime’s The Jail Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
Within the doc, Blanchard claims that after working out of the prescribed ache medicine medical doctors put her on following one in every of her surgical procedures, she started stealing Vicodin from her mom.
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“I used to be nonetheless in ache … I might simply go take one or two from her bottle,” she stated. “I did not know what dependancy actually was. I simply knew it was a craving, it is all I might take into consideration. I wished one other one.”
“I by no means instructed anybody about this earlier than. I first began taking ache tablets after I had intensive surgical procedure executed. I used to be 16 years outdated, however the longing for the ache tablets continued,” she defined. “It was like an escape from my actuality. As my tolerance began to intensify, one or two did not get me excessive anymore, so I took 3 or 4.”
Blanchard stated her mom did begin to suspect she was stealing her meds and confronted her over it, however Gypsy Rose lied to her.
After she was sentenced to jail time for her function in her mom’s homicide, Blanchard stated her substance abuse continued behind bars.
“After I first obtained to jail, I used to be subjected to a whole lot of peer stress and I smoked for a few 12 months. I began with vaping and it turned addictive, clearly, then I went to actual cigarettes,” she stated, detailing the way it started. “It led me down some unhealthy selections I remorse, however it was a studying expertise for me as a result of I obtained to see who I need to be and who I do not need to be.”
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“Within the first couple years of my incarceration, I coped utilizing medication. I believe I first began to study that medication have been accessible in jail after I began seeing different girls get excessive,” she continued, saying she was in a position to get her palms on suboxone — a drugs used to deal with dependancy — and it gave her “the identical excessive as taking ache tablets.”
“Immediately, I used to be introduced again to the dependancy I needed to ache tablets again after I was dwelling with my mom. At some point, one of many girls that I owed $50 to for a bunch of tablets, she was pressuring me to receives a commission,” Blanchard stated, explaining she known as her stepmother and lied by saying she wanted cash to interchange one other inmate’s CD participant which she broke.
“It had been consuming at me for years that I lied to Kristy. I hated myself and I hated what I turned,” Blanchard recalled. “I am clear, I am sober and I am not that individual anymore. No person is aware of I even had an dependancy earlier than jail, not to mention in jail.”
She added that she nonetheless has “a whole lot of demons to work by.”
The three-night, six-part docuseries, The Jail Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, kicks off Friday, January 5, with two installments every night.
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