Gypsy Rose Blanchard says she would regularly bathe with her mother right up until she was arrested
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- Gypsy Rose Blanchard reveals in her recently released e-book that she used to bathe with her mother Dee Dee even as an adult.
- "I didn't realize there were things in my life that weren't normal," Blanchard explains.
- She says that Dee Dee regularly shaved Blanchard's pubic hair during their baths.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is sharing more details about her life with her mother Claudine "Dee Dee" Blanchard (née Pitre) in her new e-book "Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom." The e-book is comprised of Gypsy's writings, letters, and drawings she made in prison, and transcripts of prison phone calls between her and journalist Melissa Moore, who eventually came to befriend Gypsy.
In a transcript from an undated phone call from Gypsy's time in prison, Moore asks Gypsy about Dee Dee's divorce and Dee Dee's relationship with her own father Claude Pitre, and notes that Gypsy probably didn't have a solid model of healthy relationships growing up.
Gypsy agrees. "I didn't realize there were things in my life that weren't normal until I got to prison and worked through it all. Like the baths I used to take with my mother, up until right before the murder," she tells Moore.
After Moore expresses her shock at the situation, Gypsy clarifies that it didn't happen all the time, but she would occasionally "hop in the tub" with Dee Dee.
"I never thought, 'This is not normal,'" Gypsy says, adding, "It was when my mother would shave my vagina."
Gypsy then goes on to tell Moore about the sexual abuse she says Dee Dee experienced at the hands of her own father. According to Gypsy, the abuse continued even when Dee Dee was an adult and a mother, and Gypsy said that Pitre also abused her on several occasions.
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In another section, Gypsy reflects on how Pitre's abuse must have affected Dee Dee.
"When my mother would shave me, she'd call it making me 'clean.' I think that the childhood sexual abuse she endured, and the hints of Munchausen syndrome by proxy my maternal grandmother exhibited, resulted in my mother needing her little girl to be clean," Gypsy noted.
"Please do not mistake this as me trying to play Freud; I've just examined, very deeply, how all this might have seemed from my mother's perspective," Gypsy continued. "My mother's first betrayal by her own father was exacerbated by her husband, my father, asking for a divorce. And here I was, the third person, closer than close to her, that would betray her too. First by trying to run away, and then just pulling away because I wanted to grow up. And then when the murder happened."
Gypsy also accused Pitre of sexually abusing her in her recent Lifetime docuseries, "The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard." When asked by producers in the documentary about Gypsy's claims, Pitre denied them and shared his version of events.
"She was the one that was trying to touch me, and I'd say no, don't do that. She started doing that when she was about 4 years old," Pitre said, according to People.
The Pitre family did not immediately respond to Business Insider's requests for comment.