Amanda Knox has mentioned that Gypsy Rose Blanchard shouldn’t be but free and that her mom, who was fatally stabbed by Blanchard’s boyfriend, “had it coming” for the years of abuse she inflicted upon her daughter.
Knox, who was wrongfully convicted of killing her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Italy in 2007, made the statements in a bit she penned for The Free Press on Saturday wherein she revealed her personal difficulties in attempting to return to a traditional life after being free of jail in 2011 and totally exonerated, Fox Information Digital reported.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard, 32, was launched from jail late final month having pleaded responsible to second-degree homicide in 2016, when she was 24, for her function in plotting to kill her abusive mom, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, of their Missouri dwelling in 2015 with assist from her former boyfriend on the time.
Gypsy Rose’s case, and documentaries on her story, have propelled her into the highlight, and she or he has amassed thousands and thousands of followers on-line, seemingly in a single day.
And whereas she was freed on Dec. 28, Knox believes that the general public persona of Gypsy Rose, and the circumstances surrounding her mom’s dying, could also be troublesome to beat.
“She might not but realise that she has entered a brand new form of jail: the jail of public opinion,” Knox wrote. “Once I have a look at Gypsy, though she was responsible and I used to be harmless, I see she is blundering into freedom in the very same manner as I did.”
“It’s taken me over a decade to lastly really feel like I’m in charge of my life, not trapped by my very own story. I’ve discovered that I’m greater than the worst factor that ever occurred to me, however the place there may be worth in sharing my story with others, I’m entitled to take action,” Knox wrote.
“The identical goes for Gypsy. She is greater than the horrible abuse she suffered, she is greater than a conspirator to homicide. And now that she’s admitted to what she’s completed and served her time, she doesn’t owe anyone something.”
Specialists consider Dee Dee Blanchard had Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological sickness wherein she projected pretend sicknesses onto her daughter in an effort to obtain consideration or materials gadgets out of sympathy for the sufferer.
Dee Dee satisfied Gypsy that she had a litany of sicknesses, together with leukaemia, and was years youthful than her precise age. She additionally pressured her daughter to take a seat in a wheelchair, made her take medicine she didn’t want, shaved her hair, eliminated her enamel and fed her via a tube in her abdomen.
Blanchard and her ex-boyfriend, Nicholas Paul Godejohn, had been arrested in reference to Dee Dee’s deadly stabbing in 2015. The following 12 months, Blanchard was sentenced to a decade behind bars, whereas Godejohn was sentenced to life.
“If you realize something about Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s case … you realize that 48-year-old Clauddine ‘Dee Dee’ Blanchard had it coming,” Knox wrote.
“Gypsy might not realise that many individuals admire her not as a result of she admits that what she did was improper and even as a result of she survived and escaped horrific abuse, however as a result of, deep down, they really feel that Dee Dee deserved to be murdered.”
Knox and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, had been convicted of the homicide and sexual assault of her former roommate, Kercher. She was acquitted in 2011 after spending 4 years in custody. In 2008, Rudy Hermann Guede, an immigrant from the Ivory Coast, was sentenced to 30 years in jail for the dying of Kercher and was launched in 2021.
“Once I emerged from jail it was right into a world that had already determined who I used to be, what I’d completed, and what I deserved,” Knox wrote. “I’ve been free for over twelve years, and I’m nonetheless wrestling again my identify. Now, Gypsy must do the identical.”
Knox shared how the general public and the media painted a specific image of her character as a “femme fatale” whereas sure journalists requested her disagreeable and invasive questions, though she was harmless of the costs within the case.
“Gypsy’s story is ideal fodder for our twisted media atmosphere that caters nearly pornographically to our voyeuristic and judgmental tendencies, particularly when ladies are the victims or perpetrators of violence. I do know from expertise,” Knox wrote.
Knox mentioned that she wanted to transcend the picture of being “the lady accused of homicide” and needed to focus on components of her case in public, however on the similar time selected to maintain a lot of her private life non-public. She mentioned that Gypsy Rose would face comparable dilemmas.
“It is going to take time for Gypsy to be taught who she is on the opposite facet of the tragedy that turned her right into a family identify,” Knox wrote.
“There’s a freedom to be present in holding that progress and therapeutic non-public.”
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