Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her husband, Ryan Anderson, have separated. The 32-year-old star of the Hulu series The Act and HBO’s Mommy Dead and Dearestannounced the split just three months after being released from prison after having served an eight-year sentence for part for the death of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard, along with her the then-boyfriend Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn.
Blanchard announced the news via her personal Facebook page. “People have been asking what is going on in my life. Unfortunately my husband and I are going through a separation and I moved in with my parents home down the bayou,” she wrote as reported by People. “I have the support of my family and friends to help guide me through this. I am learning to listen to my heart. Right now I need time to let myself find… who I am.”
The couple tied the wedding during the time Gypsy was in jail in July 2022. Anderson sent her a message via a letter while she was imprisoned. In the month preceding, Gypsy took to TikTok to announce that that she would delete her social media public accounts after her posts on living with her husband from the outside caught attention.
“So a lot of people already noticed that I already deleted my Instagram – the public one – with the 7.8 million followers when I deactivated it or, I deleted it, I permanently deleted it,” she stated in an TikTok video which was later deleted. “A lot of people are like, ‘What happened?’ and what happened is, I had a really good conversation with my dad and he gave me some guidance that I feel like I really needed. And that guidance was that real life is something you can touch-something you can feel-people you can actually hug.”
“With the public scrutiny as bad as it is, I just don’t want to live my life under a microscope,” she added. “So I created a private Instagram, and I got it verified. And I had absolutely no doubts or trouble with deleting that public one. I had people who were like, ‘Oh my god, you’re insane for deleting that kind of a following.’ and I’m like, ‘I could give a F about a following.’ That’s not real life.”
“I thought that once I got out of prison, I’d come out and I’d enjoy social media like the next person,” Gypsy thought. “Taking selfies of myself in the mirror and just acting goofy and everything. It’s the simple stuff in life, right?” The celebrity said that she’s decided to lead a peaceful life. “I don’t understand why people are so interested in my life, I don’t get it,” she said. “I don’t see myself as famous. Especially for – for what? Like, I did something bad. I’m trying to make myself a better person now but I don’t get it. That’s not me, I’m not famous. I’m not anything. I’m just Gypsy.”
