Gypsy Rose Blanchard's stepmother confirms that Blanchard's family and a business partner are considering legal action against the creators of "The Act," a fictional Hulu show based on Blanchard's life.

The "true crime" anthology is based on the life of Gypsy, now 27, and the 2015 murder of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, who was accused medical child abuse, often called Munchausen syndrome by proxy or factitious disorder.

Gypsy did not participate in the making of the Hulu show starring Patricia Arquette and Joey King, she and family members say. On Friday, Kristy Blanchard, Gypsy's stepmother, who lives in Cut Off, Louisiana, told the Springfield (Missouri) News-Leader they're upset at the show's co-creator Michelle Dean.

They say Dean cut off contact with the Blanchards while "The Act" was in development. They had been promised some of the proceeds from the show, the family said, and earlier, they had cooperated with Dean as she reported a 2016 BuzzFeed piece about the case. They say they hope to create a "nest egg" for the care of Gypsy, who is serving a 10-year sentence for her role in the killing, after she's released.

"I reached out to Michelle, but she's blocked me on everything," including Instagram and Facebook, Kristy Blanchard told the News-Leader late Friday. "I sent her a voicemail, 'Hi, how you doing?' Nothing rude, and when she called my phone … she recognized it was from Louisiana, she hung up the phone right away."

That call took place in September, Kristy Blanchard says. The family also sent Hulu a certified letter, which was returned unopened, they say.

The News-Leader has reached out to Hulu and Dean for comment.

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"We are looking into what our legal rights would be," says Franchesca Macelli, a screenwriter that the Blanchards are working with to develop a rival TV drama, dubbed "By Proxy."

"I have the legal life rights to the story, and I'm the only person who has the official story from all sides," Macelli says. "I'm even working with the Godejohns at this point."

The Godejohns are the family of Gypsy's former boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, now serving a life sentence for stabbing Gypsy's mother, Dee Dee, to death.

"I am unable to watch 'The Act,' " Gypsy Blanchard told Bustle in a statement, referring to conditions of her prison sentence.

"However," she added, "I feel it is very unfair and unprofessional that producers and co-producer Michelle Dean has used my actual name and story without my consent, and the life rights to do so. Therefore, there will be legal action taken against the show's creators. I want to share my story and bring awareness about Munchausen by proxy, in the hopes that I can encourage those who might be experiencing abuse to speak up, because someone will listen. No child should ever be abused, especially (by) their parent."

Gypsy's comments were fueled by strong emotions following the show's debut, her stepmother says.

"This child that we’re trying to protect, and she is getting hell for it, it’s not like she can call somebody and say, 'Hey, I need somebody to pick me up and clear my head,' " Kristy Blanchard says.

Macelli and Kristy Blanchard both declined to comment directly on the content of "The Act," saying they planned next week to release a statement outlining their views on the Hulu true-crime drama and other media adaptations of Gypsy's life. The five-part drama premiered March 20.

They did say that media adaptations "based on" or "inspired by" the Blanchard case have been inaccurate. Macelli said she and the family recognize that true-crime fiction takes liberties with the underlying facts to tell a yarn. "But the liberties that are being taken aren't the right liberties," she said. "They don't care who they're hurting in the process."

Blanchard and Macelli acknowledge that the family is in the middle of a "media circus," in Macelli's words.

"Oh, my God, I can’t believe one morning I woke up and this is my life," Gypsy's stepmother says. "I wouldn’t wish this on anyone, even the people that have drug us through the mud. I wouldn't wish this on anyone. It gets stressful, it really does."