Gypsy Rose Blanchard Life After Prison

I watched Gypsy Rose, Life After Lock up, on Lifetime. This is my personal opinion of it.

I heard about Gypsy Rose Blanchard years ago. I knew what happened to her. I watched her tv series with Patricia Arquette and Joey King, in The Act tv show. I can personally sympathize with Gypsy as I came from a mother that also abused me physically and mentally. I was also bullied in school. When your whole childhood is ripped away from you, it’s very hard to deal with this later in life. Nobody can really understand, unless you have been through a similar situation.

As a child, we are totally powerless to the abuse done to us. We have to take it all in, without saying a word, for fear to make it worse. We cannot say anything to anyone because we are scared of our parents and their reaction. We have to take it all in, anger, sadness, resentment. All these emotions blew out like a volcano for me, later in life. All those strong sentiments I have felt for many years under the abuse, that I had to keep all inside of me, just came all out. People react differently to the abuse done to them. Some kill their parents, others abuse their parents later in life, while others have a hard time coping in their relationship with their boyfriend or girlfriend. You also have people who just struggle mentally, but still keep it all inside, and then you have some that seek help to make a better life for themselves. This is what I did, after years of not knowing how to live a normal life with my ex boyfriend. I seek the help that I need to try to live a normal life. I have never, ever thought about killing my parents though. The help I got helped me, but it wasn’t perfect.

Ryan & Gypsy holding hands

People who have had a normal childhood, with normal parents simply cannot understand the degree of damage that is done to a child and the consequences it will have later in life. Not only to themselves, but to the people around them as well. It doesn’t just affect us personally, because we let all our emotions take the best of us and let it all out to just anyone that happens to be there. Unlike people who have not been through childhood trauma and say that she deserves to rot in prison, or spend the rest of her life in prison for what she did, really just don’t get it. She shouldn’t have killed her mother. She didn’t do it herself because she didn’t have the strength to kill her own mother. I would have never killed my own mother either, for what she had done to me. But that doesn’t mean that for a time, I did not hate her and wanted her to pay for what she did. Maybe Gypsy felt like that was the only way out. The only way she could be free from her mother. She does regret what she did and she said she did.

People were creeping about Gypsy being released. She deserves to have that moment to herself and I’m glad they released her so early in the morning, so that she could have that. People nowadays act like Paparazzi. Ryan was being kind of pushy. Not letting Gypsy enjoy her freedom and kind of suffocating her with attention at first. I know he was happy to see her but that kind of gave me a creepy vibe from him. I can’t believe people made a big deal out of gypsy buying new shoes.. I mean come on. Also apparently people were trying to guess what was in the trash bag she was carrying from the motel !? What !? This is news ?? Those influencers are weird. Now I understand why celebrities sometimes snap. It’s ridiculous. Poor girl had only been out for approximately 10 hours, and people were already analyzing her every single move.

Ryan trying to control the conversation with Gypsy first call, with her parole officer was very negligent of him to do. He could’ve sabotaged her parole and sent her right back to prison to finish her time. But on the other hand, the Missouri parole officer was being a jerk and just wanted her out of the state so he didn’t have to deal with her anymore. She appeared to me as a very mature, intelligent, well spoken woman. She really was making it a point to be perceived as a woman and not a girl anymore. Her new found freedom was a lot to take in and overwhelming, but she did seem to adjust very well from being in a prison with her mother, to going to actual prison and then being free for the first time in her life at thirty two years old. People sending Gypsy death threats over private messages are absolutely disgusting. It’s one thing to not like someone, but to send hateful messages and death threats, what does that say about someone ? That really doesn’t make you any better than what you think of her. She took those, in a very mature way on the show. I’m glad that she isn’t giving them any attention and not letting them affect her.

Later on, you can see Ken told Kathy that he left Gypsy because people told him to let her go. Oh what a chivalrous thing to do ! This is real life, this isn’t a book story or a movie, he totally broke her heart. He knew how vulnerable Gypsy is after everything that happened to her. I think her getting back together with him is a big mistake. I think he wanted in on it because of the fame she suddenly got. I don’t believe that he left her while she was in prison supposedly because he didn’t want fame. His smile seems so fake and forced, in the pictures of them together.

I found Kristy to be extremely nosy with Gypsy and Ken’s relationship throughout the show. Ken was her ex and just because Kathy kept in touch with him, which I find weird, it was not her place to keep telling Gypsy about everything Ken was telling her. I felt she was trying to break Ryan and Gypsy’s marriage, by constantly bringing up Ken. Very unethical thing to do if you ask me. I feel like she didn’t like Ryan very much. Otherwise why would she do that ? It doesn’t make any sense. Why would she tell Gypsy that Ken regret ending things with Gypsy ? That was not her place to tell her step daughter something like that. Ken broke Gypsy’s heart and who knows why he actually did that. He doesn’t even seem very truthful about the real reason why.

I can’t believe she told Gypsy that Ken still loved her, knowing how Gypsy felt about him. I felt like Gypsy, in her heart, never stopped loving Ken, or maybe really caring for him. He really hurt her feelings very hard, and Gypsy was very vulnerable. Very weird that supposedly, he didn’t want to be with her because of the fame, and when she got out, doing the interviews in New York and all, he was trying to get her back by talking to Kristy. You could see that Gypsy could actually see that too. She really isn’t stupid at all.

Ken Urker & Gypsy Rose after they reconnected

So let me get this straight. Ken wanted to reach out to Gypsy but didn’t want to cause an argument between Gypsy and Ryan… what did he think would happen ? Of course Gypsy knew it would cause one. Gypsy was pretty mature about it, the way she reacted to Ken wanting to reach out to her. Watching the show, I understand why she changed her hair color to blonde 🙁 Ken prefers blondes and Gypsy is brunette. When you start changing your physical appearance to please a man, that isn’t love. The man should love you the way you are. Ryan respected her in that way, and loved her the way she was. He did not want her to change, but he welcomed it and respected it even if she did.

Gypsy’s dad Rod saw it right on, about Ken wanting to worm his way back into Gypsy’s life and that Kristy was trying to get Ken and Gypsy back together. I’m glad he told his wife to mind her own business about Gypsy’s situation with Ken, and to leave Ken alone and out of the picture. Gypsy did block Ken’s phone number. That should’ve given him a hint about her intention, of not wanting to have anything to do with him anymore.

For someone who broke up with Gypsy supposedly because he did not want the media attention that Gypsy had in prison, he sure did not hesitate to contact Lifetime to be on camera as well. If he wanted to share his side of the story so badly, he could’ve just shared a post about it on his social media.

Ken did seem to appear to me that he wanted to get the media’s attention on him. So according to him, the reason for the breakup was that ” There were a lot of people in his ear, about what their relationship was doing to her and how it was affecting her in a negative context. He felt that he was hindering her from self-development..” Well that doesn’t make any sense to me and is far from the explanation he gave Kristy. He comes off as so dishonest. He tells Kristy one reason, the show maker another, and a different one to Gypsy.

I think Gypsy overreacted about the video of her taking accountability for what she has done that she posted on her social media. I think this girl is doing extremely well for what she has been through, but I think the prison time really took a toll on her mental health as well. I feel like she is not going to make it in this world if she lets people get to her feelings the way she does. I know that not everything can be perfect all the time. I think Ryan was really supportive during that time with her. Honestly when you are famous, you will always have people saying negative things about you. No matter who it is, what they have done, some people just feel better putting others down to make themselves feel better, like high school bullies, on the internet. Unfortunately with fame, also come those bullies that have nothing else better to do.

I just don’t understand how all of sudden, she was being mean with Ryan at the restaurant and ignoring him. Then suddenly in the car, she changed completely, saying she doesn’t love him anymore. I think she married Ryan on an impulse so she wouldn’t be alone when she got out of prison, and never truly loved him. Hearing that Ken was trying to reach out to her was probably the tip of the iceberg. You could see how she started changing personality after she changed her appearance. I think Ryan truly loved her. I feel bad for him. I did not not think that he was that jealous and possessive with Gypsy. Yes maybe a little over the top sometimes, but that happens when you truly love someone. It makes me wonder if the girl is ever going to be happy with anyone, after everything she has been through. I think she genuinely tried to make it work with Ryan, but did not love him the same way Ryan did. I can’t blame Ryan for feeling the way he did in the show, with Kristy letting Gypsy know about Ken trying to reach out. That must hurt and any normal boyfriend or husband would be jealous.

I think it was honestly not very nice to leave and not tell Ryan she was getting her stuff. I find it sad how Gypsy rubbed her being with Ken, in Ryan’s face. That was a really mean thing to do. Especially with his fear of her leaving him for Ken. It seemed to me that she did not waste too much time to see Ken when she left Ryan supposedly because she needed 2 weeks to think things over.

I will say that it was heartbreaking to watch how sad Ryan was that Gypsy was seeing Ken and even got matching tattoos, so quickly after she went to live with her dad. You can tell that Ryan really did love Gypsy. Her and Ryan seemed to be working really well together, until Kristy started talking to Gypsy about Ken. Ryan truly loved Gypsy and it is really sad the way she broke his heart.

Mia is such a strong, intelligent woman. She is right when she said that Ken should’ve told Gypsy and not Kristy about why he ended things with Gypsy, but i remember that she cut him off and blocked his number. Kristy, I’m sorry to say, is a very annoying woman. As you watch the series, you can’t help but see that she keeps talking over people, cutting them off. Rod even pointed it out to her and she stopped right away. But when she did it to Mia and Mia pointed it out to her mom, Kristy told her that Mia was the one cutting her off. Like woman, really, grow up, let people talk, stop cutting them off and mind your own business! She feels way too invested in Gypsy’s relationship.

I do not think that Ken is going to stay with Gypsy. I feel that Ken feels like Gypsy felt toward Ryan. He broke her heart once, for reasons that did not even make any sense at all. Gypsy being scared to do anything wrong and push Ken away, truly is a legitimate fear.

So I finished watching the series and apparently there will be more episodes to come, probably next year. Right now, I really think that she should’ve been more careful with getting pregnant. She literally just left Ryan, just got back with Ken and she is already pregnant. With what Ryan said, it is very possible that the baby could be his. Unfortunately I don’t think it’s going to go well with Gypsy and Ken. I don’t think it is going to last and I feel like he is going to run away again. They didn’t even have time to live with each other in a normal, regular, couple setting before she got pregnant. This is going to be a lot for the both of them. We will have to wait and see how things unfold.

What are your thoughts ?