Blanchard revealed her memories from the night of her mother’s murder
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Gypsy Rose Blanchard still remembers the night her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, was murdered.
Blanchard spent more than eight years in prison after conspiring with her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, to kill Dee Dee, who is believed to have subjected her daughter to years of abuse as well as unnecessary medical treatments and procedures.
More than two years after her release from prison, Blanchard spoke to Paul C. Brunson on his podcast, We Need to Talk, on which she was asked about the night Godejohn fatally stabbed Dee Dee in 2015.
Blanchard says that she alerted Godejohn when her mother had fallen asleep, after which he entered the home, she gave him a knife and he ordered her to go into the bathroom.
Dee Dee was stabbed to death in the bedroom.
“I heard screaming,” Blanchard recalls. “It was a horrible sound. It was screaming. It was shock. I almost think I heard ‘Who are you?’ was asked.”
She adds that transcripts of Godejohn’s testimony and his conversations with fellow inmates indicated Dee Dee asked who he was.
“And he responded, ‘I am death,'” Blanchard says.
Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in prison for her role in Dee Dee’s murder, while Godejohn received life without parole.
“I remember her calling out for my name, and I wanted to go and help her,” Blanchard tells Brunson. “Like, I felt like I wanted to go and help her, but I was terrified at the same time. Like my body was paralyzed. I couldn’t move.”