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The internet being the internet, it is not long before things take a dark, sinister turn. The internet introduced her to people who would treat her like a woman with needs, sexual needs, instead of a perpetual child who needed to be kept from experiencing pretty much any of life’s rich offerings for her own good. It gives her access to the outside world, a world beyond her mother’s control, a world where she did not have to pretend to be a strange, sad, maudlin caricature of a girly six-year-old no matter how old she was on the outside. But in the beginning, at least access to a computer and the internet is a liberating and empowering force for Dee Dee. It certainly is in the case of the Hart family. The internet is frequently a sinister force in stories like these. So this deeply mentally ill woman lived a grotesque lie in order to maintain complete control her daughter, to keep her from maturing beyond a state of perpetual pink Disney girlhood. She had no identity, no cultural capital, no reason to stand out from the crowd. If Dee Dee wasn’t Mother of the Year she wasn’t anything at all. No, she wanted to be thought of as a living saint, goodness personified, an everyday hero making incredible sacrifices for her desperately sick daughter. Like Sarah and Jennifer Hart, the white subjects of the podcast Broken Harts, who adopted six black children they paraded in front of cameras for likes and love on carefully manicured social media posts while abusing, starving and ultimately killing them behind the scenes, Dee Dee didn’t just want the validation, praise and attention that comes with being recognized as a good mother.
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But, what makes the series so arrest for families is that the series floats the idea that in this particular tragedy, there are no clear-cut heroes and villains.Īrquette delivers a performance of great quality and quantity in the impossibly juicy role of the real Dee Dee Blanchard, a honey-dripping nightmare of maternal evil who kept daughter Gypsy Rose Lee in a state of eternal childhood and dependence by convincing her and doctors that Gypsy Rose had all manner of terrible, debilitating illnesses requiring intense, invasive care like being fed through a stomach tube and being confined to a wheelchair.
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At the risk of being very safe, I’m going to play Nostradamus and predict all manner of awards for the lovely and talented Patricia Arquette. The police department accepted Dee Dee's claims without further investigation, and simply noted in their report that Gypsy did indeed suffer from "a mental handicap.It has all the elements of an epic smash: murder, sex, a beyond twisted mother-daughter dynamic, Munchausen by Proxy, gaslighting on a horrific, almost impossible to believe scale, child abuse, murderous rage and roles so juicy they all but guarantee Emmys and Golden Globes for the heavyweight thespians that snagged them. He was not notified, and the claims went unchecked. Rod Blanchard, Gypsy's father, sent Dee Dee money monthly for his daughter's care. When the police paid Dee Dee and Gypsy a visit, Dee Dee explained that the inconsistent birth dates and name spellings were designed to evade an abusive husband. Two years later, an anonymous call to the Springfield Police Department expressed doubt that Gypsy was truly ill and requested authorities to take a look at inconsistencies on her birth certificate. Though the girl had a relatively clean bill of health, doctors chose not to probe and instead treated her for vision, hearing, sleep, and salivation problems that stemmed from the muscular dystrophy Dee Dee insisted Gypsy had.Īccording to the BuzzFeed article, one doctor in Springfield, Missouri, pediatric neurologist Bernardo Flasterstein, did tell Dee Dee about his doubts in 2007 he even noted "a strong possibility of Munchausen by proxy." But nothing came of his suspicions. With MSBP, doctors may be reluctant to bring up any suspicions that a patient or their caretaker is lying or exaggerating symptoms, because it could be harmful to the patient's wellbeing.Īs early as 2001, tests for Gypsy's muscular dystrophy and her brain and spine scans all came up negative for any issues. Hulu + Brownie Harris People became suspicious about Gypsy's conditions.