Joey King revealed to the magazine Variety who had a “private conversation” with Gypsy Rose Blanchard a woman convicted of participating in her mother's murder in 2016. The actress even played Gypsy in the series “The Act” launched in 2019.
“She and I talked a little privately, which was really nice,” Joey King said on an episode of the podcast “Just For Variety” of the vehicle.
Joey King declined to specify the conversation, but sought dispel rumors that the two don't get along . “Having that private conversation with her was really lovely. We both know there is absolutely no ill will towards each other.”
According to the actress, the conversation was calm and they both said “kind and supportive” things to each other. “People are stupid and assume whatever they want, and people just make things up because it's funny to them,” King said.
“There was nothing to resolve between us. There was nothing wrong. It was nice to just connect for a minute,” the actress clarified.
Joey King also highlighted that he thinks “it’s great that she’s free and can really start her life now”.
Gypsy was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2016, when she pleaded guilty to her mother's murder. However, her sentence was shortened and she was released in December 2023. At the time of the murder, she was just 23 years old.
Gypsy would have helped plan her mother's death, while Nicholas Godejohn, the young woman's boyfriend, was found guilty of stabbing Dee Dee Blanchard to death.
Gypsy claimed she killed her mother out of revenge. Dee Dee had Munchausen syndrome, a type of child abuse in one of the parents simulates illnesses in the child in exchange for the child's undivided attention.
She came to invent, and nurtured the invention for years, that her daughter had chronic diseases muscular dystrophy, leukemia, asthma, epilepsy and sleep apnea, and even forced the girl to use a wheelchair since childhood.
“The Act” stars Joey King, as Gypsy, and Patricia Arquette, as Dee Dee. The series is available on Amazon Prime Video and seeks to mix fiction with reality by showing the daughter's attempt to escape her overprotective mother.
Source: CNN Brasil
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