Lakers Legend Offers Sympathies to Gypsy Rose Blanchard 9 Days After Prison Release: “I Feel Sorry for Her”

The Gypsy Rose Blanchard release has caught the world by storm. Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in prison following the murder of her mother. She helped her ex-boyfriend kill her mother who had Munchausen by proxy syndrome. NBA veteran Robert Horry recently brought up the case.

Although Horry wasn’t aware of the case, he said that he sympathizes with her on a human level. The 7x NBA champion said that he feels sorry for her that she had to go through all the years of traumatic experiences.

Gypsy’s mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard had the Munchausen by proxy syndrome. Because of this, a caretaker for a child, primarily a mother makes up fake symptoms for their child and makes everyone believe that the kid is going through some severe medical conditions. It is considered to be a form of mental illness as well as a form of child abuse. Gypsy had to go through the consequences of her mother’s actions for her entire childhood.

When she grew up, she realized what she had been subjected to through other people who heard her stories. One of them was her ex-boyfriend Nick Godejohn, who helped Gypsy kill her mother in 2015. After the case ran its course, Gypsy was sent to prison for 10 years while her boyfriend at the time was sentenced to life for killing Clauddine.

Gypsy was released on December 28th, 2023, after serving eight years in prison. After the release, her case caught people’s attention as it is unimaginable for most people, what she has been through in 32 years of her life. When Horry was asked about it on the Big Shot Bob podcast, he said that he wasn’t aware of it. After being briefed about the matter by his co-host, the NBA veteran was in disbelief.

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He said, “I feel sorry for her that this happened to her.” Horry said that it is beyond his ability to understand that a mother could do such things to her own daughter and that too for so many years. Although he wasn’t aware at the time of the case, Horry said that he was going to do his research on it and try to understand it better. Gypsy has covered her side of the story in the series titled, The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.

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