Gypsy Rose Blanchard is sharing her opinion about "The Act," the 2019 Hulu limited series that was based on her life. Blanchard told Us Weekly she had mixed feelings after watching just one episode of the series, which starred Joey King as her and Patricia Arquette in an Emmy-winning performance as her late mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard. “I think Joey King did an amazing job playing me,” she said.
“I was a little bit harder on Patricia Arquette playing my mom just because it’s my life. I am very hypercritical of it.” Gypsy Rose Blanchard, whose new Lifetime reality series, “Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up,” premieres June 3, spent eight years in prison for her role in the 2015 murder of her allegedly abusive mother .
She was released from prison early in December 2023. The 32-year-old TikTok star , who previously appeared in the Lifetime reality series "The Prison Confessions," explained to the publication that she wanted to participate in "Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up" so that people could learn about who she is as a free woman today. “When I was about to get released, I was sitting in my prison cell and I was thinking about all this and I’m like, ‘I’m so tired of this prison version of myself that I think people know me by.
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I want to break that mold and show people who I am as an individual," she told Us Weekly. Blanchard also said that life outside of prison has been a struggle for her. “Everything around me is different.
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