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Whereas nicholas godejohn After murdering her mother, Gypsy Rose Blanchard hid in the bathroom – waiting for everything to be over.
Even at that time he had mixed feelings.
He remembers the question his mother asked.
And she shares the haunting answer Godejohn said before Dee Dee died.
‘I am death’
On the Tuesday, June 9 episode of Paul C. Brunson we need to talk podcastBlanchard tells in detail about the night that saved his life – but also sent him to prison.
“I heard screaming,” she recalled. “It was a terrible sound.”
Blanchard explained: “It was screaming. It was shock.”
Thinking back, she described: “I almost feel like I heard ‘Who are you?’ was asked.” That would be by his deceased mother, Dee Dee.
“And he replied, ‘I am death,'” Blanchard recounted. “So I know that’s probably what I heard.”
Blanchard hid in the bathroom while her boyfriend at the time, Nicholas Godejohn, murdered her mother on June 10, 2015.
During the murder Dee Dee apparently called out her daughter’s name.
“I felt like I wanted to go and help him, but at the same time I was terrified,” Blanchard admitted. “Like my body was paralyzed. I couldn’t move.”
She added: “And I was so focused and trying to breathe and stop him.”
Instead, he heard “a loud scream” and then silence, which led him to know that Dee was dead.
‘I don’t think he said anything’
Godejohn then came into the bathroom, where she was waiting.
“I don’t think he said anything,” he described.
“He cut his finger,” said Blanchard. “And so he wanted me to bandage him up.”
She detailed that she was “completely naked”, apparently on Godejohn’s orders.
“And he wanted me to hug him,” recalled Blanchard. “So there was this kind of embrace where I was in a state of shock. But I couldn’t believe what happened.”
The murder of Dee Dee Blanchard was a violent crime.
But it also allowed his adult daughter, whom he had poisoned, lied to and distorted throughout his life, to be free, if only for a short time.
We can accept that, if Dee Dee were still alive, she would still be giving drugs to her daughter and pretending that she was severely disabled. He may have had worse surgery than that.
At the same time, we can also understand the conflicting emotions that Blanchard experienced at that time. It was his mother’s death. Part of the power that abusive parents have is that they own most or all of the people in their victim’s world.
She was a victim – of her mother and then of the justice system. Now, she is finally shaping her life.
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