Gypsy Rose Blanchard Announces Split From Husband, Says “Right now I need time to let myself find… who I am.”
Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her husband, Ryan Scott Anderson, have called it quits.
Blanchard, who married Anderson while incarcerated, announced the split on her private Facebook account. This comes just three months following her release from Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri where she served an 8-year sentence.
On Thursday, America’s sweetheart shared a heartfelt statement about what’s happening in her life.
It read, “People have been asking what is going on in my life. Unfortunately, my husband and I are going through a separation and I moved in with my parents home down the bayou. I have the support of my family and friends to help guide me through this.”
She continued, “I am learning to listen to my heart. Right now I need time to let myself find… who I am.”
Blanchard and Anderson married in an unconventional jailhouse ceremony, with no guests present, in July 2022. In an interview before her early release in December 2023, the author of Conversations on the Eve of Freedom is reported to have said:
“We do plan on having a reception/redo wedding with all of our family and our friends and the dress and the cake and everything because we deserve that.”
The 32-year-old elaborated, “I deserve that. He deserves that. Our prison wedding was just something to where we can make our vows to each other. It was something that meant something to us. And I think the party is kind of for everybody else and us, but mostly for everybody else.”
Just days after her release, Blanchard shared that she was excited about moving in with Anderson, starting their life together, and her desire to have children.
“I’ve never lived with a man,” she said. “I grew up with a mom, so I didn’t even grow up with a dad in the house. So, I’m like, ‘I don’t even know what it’s like to live with a man.”
However, it seems that the dynamics of their relationship have since changed.
The couple’s split was particularly shocking because her husband recently shared a photo on Instagram, with his hand on Blanchard’s belly as they lay in bed. He fueled would-be pregnancy rumors with the caption, “Me and my little family cuddling together.”
Just a week later, photos began to circulate online of Blanchard and her now-famous prison pen pal turned husband at a medical facility in Lake Charles, LA.
Blanchard was convicted for the second-degree murder of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, in June 2015. She conspired with her then-boyfriend Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn, whom she connected with on christiandatingforfree.com.
Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in prison while Godejohn was handed a life sentence without parole. Many consider this to be unfair, considering that Godejohn is on the autism spectrum and was, arguably, a victim himself.
After her arrest, it was discovered that she was a lifetime victim of horrific abuse. While undiagnosed, it’s understood that she had Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare behavioral disorder that involves a guardian exaggerating or inducing symptoms of illness on an otherwise healthy person to gain sympathy.
