TV interview of Gypsy Rose Blanchard

Since Hulu L & # 39; act The film began in March and the audience was captivated by the true story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who, along with her ex-boyfriend Nick Godejohn, is in prison for the murder of his mother Dee Dee in 2015.

But here is the thing: The acThis has definitely stung the public interest lately, this is absolutely not the first time that the story of Gypsy is told. Gypsy herself has even tried to say it a few times – more recently in a 20/20 special interview titled "The truth and the lies of Gypsy" in January 2018.

Gypsy spoke to Amy Robach of ABC News at the Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri during the interview, where she is currently serving a 10-year sentence. Here are the main points to remember from one of Gypsy's most recent live interviews.

Dee Dee told Gypsy that she had several diseases, but Gypsy only has one.

Let's go back: Dee Dee was suffering from the Munchausen Syndrome by proxy, recently renamed a dummy disorder imposed on another (FDIA), a mental health disorder in which a caregiver manufactures or causes an illness or injury to a person under their supervision often to subject the victim to unnecessary medical treatment.

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Dee Dee told Gypsy that she was suffering from leukemia, asthma, sight and hearing disorders, muscular dystrophy, and epilepsy. But in reality, the story of Gypsy is quite different. "There are some diseases that I knew I did not have," said Gypsy. "I knew I did not need a feeding tube, I knew I could eat, I knew I could walk in. But I thought my mother when she said I had it leukemia."

As for this one health problem? Gypsy suffers only from a minor visual impairment in the left eye. "I have a little lazy eye, not all the time," she said.

Dee Dee physically abused Gypsy, in addition to her psychological and emotional abuse.

When Gypsy began to suspect that her health problems were not real, she started asking more questions – which caused Dee Dee's anger.

"This would give rise to a dispute that would last a few days, or maybe it would not feed me for about two days," Gypsy said. "It started to be physical in 2011. She hit me sometimes with a hanger." Gypsy also said that Dee Dee had chained her to bed and had bells at the door when she was trying to escape.

Dee Dee was an accumulator and kept a lingerie full of Gypsy drugs.

According to Gypsy's lawyer, public defender Mike Stanfield, Gypsy's home and Dee Dee were extremely neglected. "One of the rooms had so many stacked things that you could not even get in," Stanfield said.

However, there was a place where Dee Dee kept her business impeccable: Gypsy's medicine cabinet, which was actually a linen closet.

"She had even written on several vials of Gypsy's medications as if she was writing for a child." She wrote about the anti-epileptic drug "Shakey Baby," Stanfield said. In all areas of Dee Dee's life, it appeared that she had absolutely no organization or cleanliness except for drugs. It helped me know from the start that something was really wrong. "

Nick and Gypsy's crime was extremely well documented and led the police directly to them.

Recipes, surveillance videos, Greyhound bus tickets – clues were everywhere, according to the investigators. "It's like a crime that I call" Hansel and Gretel ", where you drop the clues along the way, said former FBI agent Brad Garrett." They're n & # 39; 39, could not have better prepared the police. "

"During my ten years of practice, this case has by far the largest number of discoveries I've ever had," said Gypsy's lawyer, public defender Mike Stanfield. "Almost 100 CDs of papers, photos and digital information."

Despite all the clues left behind, Gypsy never thought that she or Nick would be caught. "It never crossed my mind," she says. "Honestly, I did not think we were going to get caught."

Gypsy lied about his age to the investigators.

Immediately after the murder, questioned by investigators about her age, Gypsy says her health insurance says she's 23, but says she's 19 years old.

"My mother and I are survivors of Hurricane Katrina, my birth certificate was taken to Katrina and, unfortunately, they ruined everything in the administrative process," she said in a statement. interview.