Gypsy Rose Blanchard Speaks Out Forward Of Jail Launch, Says She ‘Regrets’ Mom’s Homicide ‘Each Single Day’

With a Lifetime docuseries already dropping subsequent week, the now 32-year-old additionally opened as much as PEOPLE about how she feels right this moment about her mother Dee Dee’s 2015 homicide, which she plotted along with her then-boyfriend Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn. Blanchard was given 10 years in jail after pleading responsible to second-degree homicide however might be launched after serving simply eight; Godejohn, in the meantime, was sentenced to life in jail.

The homicide made headlines and impressed Hulu’s The Act, after the weird particulars of the case started to return out. In accordance with Gypsy Rose, her mom pressured her to make use of a wheelchair and feeding tubes and claimed the kid had quite a few sicknesses and issues, together with muscular dystrophy — with different docs calling BS on these diagnoses and claiming Gypsy Rose as a substitute suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, now generally known as Factitious dysfunction imposed on one other.

“If I had one other probability to redo all the things, I do not know if I’d return to after I was a toddler and inform my aunts and uncles that I am not sick and mommy makes me sick or, if I’d journey again to only the purpose of that dialog with Nick and inform him, ‘ what, I’ll go inform the police all the things.’ I sort of battle with that,” Blanchard mentioned in a brand new interview with PEOPLE forward of her launch.

Of the homicide, she mentioned she was “determined to get out of that state of affairs” and “simply wasn’t having it” when her mom allegedly scheduled an operation on her larynx. Feeling she had no different choices, Godejohn, she says, advised her, “I’d do something to guard you.”

“I mentioned, ‘Something?’ He mentioned ‘Sure,'” she claimed, earlier than he then stabbed her mom 17 instances, killing her.

“She did not deserve that,” says Blanchard now. “She was a sick girl and sadly I wasn’t educated sufficient to see that. She deserved to be the place I’m, sitting in jail doing time for felony conduct.”

Blanchard additionally advised the outlet that “No one will ever hear me say I am glad she’s useless or I am pleased with what I did,” including, “I remorse it each single day.”

Reflecting again on the alleged therapy she endured, Blanchard mentioned she knew she did not want a feeding tube or wheelchair, however was actually confused about all the things else. She additionally mentioned her mother would “get actually, actually upset with me and begin manipulating me” each time she questioned the state of affairs

“It was similar to a home violence sort of relationship. So long as you are complacent all the things’s superb. Put your foot down, then it is unhealthy,” she added, saying her mom started “hitting, punching, slapping her,” whereas additionally calling her names like “bitch, whore, slut.”

Along with her launch on the horizon, she mentioned she’s “in love” with husband Ryan Anderson and hopes folks in abusive relationships look to her and see they need to “not resort to homicide.”

“It could seem to be each avenue is closed off however there may be all the time one other method,” she concluded. “Do something, however do not take this plan of action.”

She additionally lately advised TMZ she’s hoping to satisfy Taylor Swift after her launch and has already purchased tickets to a Kansas Metropolis Chiefs sport on December 31.

See extra from Blanchard when Lifetime’s docuseries The Jail Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard premieres January 5.