Mommy
Dead And Dearest 8/10
When
your own father suggests flushing your ashes down the toilet you know
you have to be one of the most ain't shit humans to ever walk the
planet. I just watched Mommy Dead And Dearest on HBO and my god it is
nuts. I know that there is a series on Hulu but I ain't got time to
be watching people pretend to be real folks when I can watch the
actual people involved tell their story? By the way. The song during
the credits? I get it. It has the name of the girl that this is about
but seriously? That was super classless. This is about a girl named
Gypsy Rose Blanchard who along with her boyfriend were charged for
murdering her mother Dee Dee Blanchard. I had heard a little bit
about this like the fact that the mom was pretending the daughter was
sick for attention and money. What I did not know was that this
little girl was now in her early 20's and that her mother had a whole
laundry list of issues that she said her daughter had.
Dee
Dee said that Gypsy Rose had leukemia, muscular dystrophy, epilepsy,
respiratory issues, sleep apnea, salivary glands removed, vision and
hearing impairments, and all kinda random shit. Now when you read all
that you probably wonder why she was being treated for shit that can
be tested. In some cases her her salivary glands being removed
surgically her mom gave her something to make her drool more. She
made her pretend not to be able to use her legs. She would drug her
constantly and even when she was sleeping. A doctor or two suggested
that the mother was suffering from Munchausen syndrome by proxy which
is a “condition where a caregiver creates the appearance of health
problems in another person, typically their child.”
Another
question you may ask is where was her father. He was 17 when Gypsy
Rose was born and Dee Dee was 24. They spit up pretty early in her
life and he had almost no contact with them. Dee Dee was lying to him
about all of this stuff as well. You probably wonder why she did not
tell any of her friends. Well, she stopped going to school in the
second grade (because she was getting “sicker”) and her mother
was always around her. Always. If she said something she should not
have her mother, who was always holding her hand, would squeeze it
and abuse her later. She ended up meeting this guy named Nicholas
Godejohn on a Christian dating site (of course!). They had an online
relationship that developed to her running away once and then being
leashed to her bed for a few weeks. They ended up texting about
murdering Dee Dee which Gypsy Rose suggested and Nicholas, who has
his own mental issues as well as being arrested in 2013 for jerking
it in a McDonald's while watching porn for nine hours, was happy to
do.
Gypsy
Rose ended up getting 10 years in prison while Nicholas got life.
Watching the actual police interviews as well as from Gypsy Rose and
her father and people who knew the family growing up was done really
well. Dee Dee's own family seemed to hate her guts and she poisoned
her step-mom back in the day. The family is like “Fugdahbeh.”
I felt bad that Gypsy Rose has to do any time but I understand why
she did. I also understand why she had her mom taken out because if
she had not the shit would still be happening right now. This girl
had no way out of that situation and using some horned up weirdo she
met online was the perfect mixture of right and wrong. It I sad that
the first time she gets to be free she is locked up in jail. She
seems to be turning out more normal that I would expect growing up
the way she did.
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