Patricia Arquette hopes that Gypsy doesn’t jump into her new engagement (Picture: Getty)

Patricia Arquette has sent her well wishes to Gypsy Rose Blanchard after discovering she had got engaged while in prison.

The actress has currently been playing a fictional version of Gypsy’s mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, in new StarzPlay series The Act – which documents the horrific abuse Gypsy suffered as the victim of Munchausen’s By Proxy.

Gypsy, who is now serving 10 years for her mother’s murder, quietly announced in April that she had become engaged to an unknown pen pal who started writing to her after watching a documentary on the crime.

While the actress is happy that the now 27-year-old got a happy ending, she has warned her not to rush into things too quickly – and to get to know him over time before tying the knot.




Speaking to Metro.co.uk, Patricia said: ‘I have [heard she’s engaged]. I just hope she takes her time to get to know someone. It’s hard to get to know someone when you’re not really with them, when you’re writing to each other or on the phone.’

‘She’s been someone’s patient her whole life. She’s been someone’s project, somebody’s… something to take care of,’ she continued.

Gypsy announced to family she was engaged to a penpal who writes to her in prison (Picture: No Credit)

‘I hope she has the space when she comes out to figure out who she is on her own, and not end up in a relationship where someone is acting like she’s their patient that they need to take care of.’

Gypsy’s ex-boyfriend, Nick Godejohn, is currently serving a life sentence, also for the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard.

After speaking over the internet for two years, meeting on a Christian dating website, Gypsy enlisted Nick to murder her mother to break free of the two decades of torture she’s endured under her care.

Gypsy Blanchard and boyfriend Nick Godejohn killed Dee Dee after decades of abuse (Picture: No Credit)

Since a small child, Dee Dee had lied about Gypsy’s health – forcing her to have operations for diseases she didn’t have, and telling all family and friends that she was bound to a wheelchair with sicknesses including muscular dystrophy, an assortment of allergies, and even cancer.

However, in reality, Gypsy was perfectly healthy, with Dee Dee forcing her to comply.

After Nick stabbed Dee Dee in her bed, the pair fled to his home, where they alerted the police with a series of sick Facebook messages declaring they’d killed her.

Tracking the IP address of the messages, the pair were caught – and Gypsy’s years of torture were revealed to the world.

Patricia is playing a fictional version of Dee Dee Blanchard for new series The Act (Picture: Rex)

‘I felt terrible for all of them,’ Patricia added to us. ‘Dee Dee really damaged Gypsy, and it’s horrible because had Gypsy not had that kind of medical abuse, emotional, mental and physical abuse, I don’t think she’d be in jail today.

‘I don’t think she would’ve had anyone killed in her life.’

However, with Nick getting the longer sentence for actually committing the crime, and his mental state at the time of the murder, other topics of discussion have been brought up – including Gypsy’s level of involvement and the encouragement of Nick to commit murder.



‘Some people think Gypsy’s a total victim, some people think that she’s also not the victim at a certain point, some think Nick’s the victim, and some think it’s DeeDee,’ Patricia laid out.

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‘But I think DeeDee was very manipulative and DeeDee’s mum was very manipulative, and in some instances, Gypsy has been manipulative. Will she continue to be? I hope not.

‘Hopefully now, free from Dee Dee and having relationships with humans outside of that, hopefully she has a great life after this.’

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On the news that The Act was being released, Gypsy released a statement declaring she had not given permission for the production to use her life story, and did not approve of its use.

The release, which premiered on Hulu in the States before coming over to the UK, also embellished elements of Gypsy’s story for the sake of the plot – changing people’s names and editing the abuse that Gypsy suffered at the hands of her mum.

The Act is available now on Amazon Prime Video via StarzPlay.

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