During a panel discussion at An Evening With Lifetime: Conversations On Controversies FYC Event in Los Angeles, California, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the 32-year-old involved in the 2015 murder of her abusive mother, Clauddine

“Dee Dee”

Blanchard, opened up about the negative impact that some of the attention she has received since her release from prison has had on her mental health.

“I’m very much an introvert. And so coming out and this media storm hit me, and I was… At first, I really, really was touched by the positivity that people were showing me,”

Gypsy Rose Blanchard told People magazine editor-at-large and panel moderator Janine Rubenstein.

“And then, as social media began, and how it always does, it turned negative. It started to have a negative effect on my mental health.”

After shutting down her public Instagram and TikTok accounts in March, Blanchard shared during the panel event that she eventually returned to social media but made a conscious decision to not read the comment sections.

“I’m just trying to live my life in the best way that I can,”

she added.

Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016 after convincing her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, to kill her mother. Her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, was believed to have factitious disorder, where caregivers

“falsely present others, such as children, as being ill, injured or impaired,”

the Mayo Clinic states. Gypsy Rose Blanchard served eight years of a ten-year prison sentence before being released on parole. 

She recently separated from her prison husband and rekindled her romance with her ex-fiancé, Ken Urker. She told TMZ that their

“love for each other is simply undeniable.”

She added,

“Life is too short to not take a chance.”

#Clique, what are your thoughts?