Gypsy Rose Blanchard has revealed the “final straw” that led to The murder of his mother, Claudine “DD” Blanchardat the hands of her ex-boyfriend Nicholas “Nick” Goodejohn.
In his forthcoming memoir My time to stand up33-year-old convicted felon – who Served eight years in prison for the role he played in his mother’s murder—detailing his mindset in the weeks before he asked Nick to help him kill DD.
“People really want to know: What was the last straw? When was the moment I decided it was him or me?” Blanchard wrote, according to a quote obtained by people.
“Take this, y’all, on page three. A month before the murder, my mother tried to cut my throat,” he continued. “At least that’s how I saw it.
“The cause for concern, suddenly, was my voice. ‘It’s too loud; it’s too squeaky,’ my mother complained to my ear, nose and throat specialist,” Blanchard recalled. “On the way home, I kept going, like… a squeaky wheel.
“‘There’s nothing wrong with my voice,’ I whispered, as he pushed me in his portable wheelchair to the parking lot where our car was parked, outside the hospital in downtown Kansas City,” Blanchard said. wrote “You heard the doctor. The sound you make may mean that there is a problem with your larynx, and this problem may be causing your lack of sleep,’ he concluded.
At this point, Blanchard was already well aware of his mother’s medical manipulations. DD forced her daughter to undergo several surgeries, convincing her that she had several illnesses and health complications in the first 23 years of her life.
Blanchard noted: “Actually, by that point, we had been fighting for a while. I was 23 and had tried to run away twice. I shot him with a BB gun. . He had tied me to the bed. I was getting old and it was very difficult to control him. The older I got, the more physical and severe his punishments became.”
“He left me looking for a new surgery, I believe, his attempt to gain control,” she added.
Already, DD had reportedly taken drastic measures to make it difficult for her daughter to speak up. Blanchard recalled “gagging” her at night and using Orajal to numb her mouth, causing her to slur her words.
Furthermore, Blanchard claimed that DD was the cause of her teeth falling out because she gave her several “overdoses”.
“Now, the way I see it, my literal voice, as it may be, can be taken from me. Its end game,” he said. “Despite my recent awareness of the reality of my life, this was where I truly feared the scope of his malice.”
DD went so far as to schedule an “exploratory operation,” telling her daughter it would be “painless.”
“‘It’s easy, baby, it hurts; it’ll help,'” Blanchard remembers her mother saying.
Blanchard and Goodejohn were arrested in Big Bend, Wisconsin on June 15, 2015, the day after Springfield, Missouri police found Dee Dee stabbed to death in her bedroom.
About ten years later, Blanchard is now expecting her first child with boyfriend Ken Urker.. The happy couple plans to welcome their baby girl, Aurora Raina Arkar, sometime in January 2025.
his memory, My time to stand upwritten by Blanchard with Melissa Moore and Michelle Matriciani, will be available for purchase online and in stores starting December 10.