Loose Women blasted for treating Gypsy Rose Blanchard 'like a celebrity' on the show
The 33-year-old shot to fame after being found guilty in 2016 of killing her mother Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard
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Loose Women fans have criticised the show for featuring Gypsy Rose Blanchard as a guest on Wednesday.
Blanchard - who served eight years in prison and was paroled in December 2023 - appeared on the ITV chat show to discuss her new TV show, Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up.
She chatted to hosts Jane Moore, 62, and Denise Welch, 66, via video call from the US about her life since being released from jail.
Some viewers called out Loose Women for being “sympathetic” to Blanchard and questioned why she was on the show.
“'Imagine interviewing a murderer live on TV and being sympathetic about it. She's evil, end of,” one wrote on X.
She spoke to Jane Moore and Denise Welch about life after prison
ITV
“Why is the psychotic, pathological liar and convicted murderer Gypsy Rose Blanchard on Loose Women being treated like a celebrity tho?!” another added.
“It’s a bit controversial having an interview with Gypsy Rose Blanchard. How much is she getting paid for it? Shouldn’t be a celeb,” a third posted.
“Loose Women have just come out dancing to Espresso and Gypsy Rose Blanchard is their guest. I feel like I’m on drugs,” someone else commented.
On the show, presenter Moore asked Blanchard - who convinced her boyfriend to stab her mother to death - if she felt guilty over her involvement in the murder.
Blanchard responded: "Of course! Of course. I have to live with that every single day, and that's a lifelong sentence. I might have served eight and a half years in prison, but that is a lifelong sentence for me.
“At the time I was very, very sheltered in my life so the avenues in which I cognitively thought to reach out, my mum had told me a lot of lies about my father so I didn't turn to him for help because I thought he didn't love me, that's what my mum led me to believe."
Blanchard pictured with her late mother Dee Dee
The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard
She added: "I grew up with a mum that basically made me fearful of strangers so I felt like the only person I could confide in was my co-defendant.
"I wish I would have gone through other avenues; that is forever a lifelong regret, but unfortunately, hindsight's twenty-twenty, so I can't change the past.”
Blanchard added that she didn’t think her mother was “evil” and that she wanted to raise awareness for Munchausen syndrome by proxy, which her mother had.
The syndrome is a form of mental illness in which the parent or carer of a child either makes up fake symptoms or causes real symptoms to make it look like the child is sick.
"I never wanted to villainise my mum, I never approved of her being villainized,” she said.
"All I ever did was share my story, and unfortunately, the sins of her past put that label on her. I, however, don't feel she was evil.
"I feel like she would have needed mental help and I think with that knowledge, we need to shift the narrative of putting her in a box. I think that more mental health awareness, of Munchausen by Proxy, needs to be advocated for."
Blanchard welcomed a daughter with her partner Ken Urker last year.
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