Two different stories told

Soon, Dee Dee began telling stories that painted her ex-husband as an irresponsible, alcoholic, and drug-using father who had abandoned them and failed to pay child support. Rod, however, told a different story, which was corroborated by records showing that he paid $1,200 a month in child support to Dee Dee until Gypsy turned 18.

Gypsy Rose Blancharde

Gypsy was born in 1991 in a town called Slidell near New Orleans. When Gypsy turned three months, Dee Dee worried that her daughter had sleep apnea, a condition that causes people to stop breathing while sleeping. But the doctors who looked at the infant couldn’t find anything wrong with her. Afterwards, Dee Dee seemed to become more paranoid and she constantly bothered her ex-husband about their daughter’s health issues.