Less than six months ago, after she was released from prison on parole. She served seven years out of a 10-year sentence for her role in the murder of her mother. Waiting to pick her up in the early hours on Dec.
28, 2023 was her then , whom she married in a jailhouse ceremony in 2022 after he wrote her a letter while she was imprisoned. “She was here one day and the next she was gone. She wanted to be married, and and now she doesn’t.
" The pair began a whirlwind journey as Blanchard adjusted to life outside of prison, . By June 2024, the pair were in the midst of a divorce, Anderson tells TODAY.com over Zoom.
"It was like, she was here one day and the next she was gone," Anderson says. "She wanted to be married, and and now she doesn't. It's just crazy how it all happened like that.
" Blanchard's past as a likely victim of her mother had been . As a child, Blanchard’s mother forced her to use a wheelchair and oxygen tank and took her to doctors to treat her for conditions like leukemia and muscular dystrophy — that she never actually had, Blanchard testified in court. Blanchard and her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn , who was found stabbed to death in her home in 2015.
Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016, and life in prison without parole in 2019. He was convicted of first-degree for stabbing Dee Dee Blanchard to death in her bedroom, after first pleading not guilty. He has since expressed regret, calling it a “mistake” in an Oxygen document.
