Gypsy-Rose Blanchard Says She The Happiest She’s Ever Been After Submitting For Divorce

Gypsy-Rose Blanchard is opening up about her love life after submitting for divorce from her estranged husband Ryan Anderson.

Blanchard, 32, spoke about Anderson, 37, in a Q&A on her YouTube channel. The Munchausen by proxy sufferer defined in her Thursday, June 27 video that when she filed for divorce from Anderson, she was following her coronary heart.

Blanchard introduced her separation from her husband on March 28, three months after her early jail launch. Within the days after her separation, she was noticed together with her ex-fiancé Ken Urker. Then, on April 11, she filed a short-term restraining order in opposition to Anderson.

Within the first half of her Q&A, Blanchard was requested what was the very first thing she did that helped her acquire her independence and made her really feel happiest.

“I do know it is gonna sound a extremely tacky reply, however the reality is once I divorced Ryan, and filed for divorce and I adopted my coronary heart to real love,” she started. 

“I felt like I made that selection. I used to be a free lady. I made that selection as an impartial lady,” she continued. “And I believe everybody ought to observe their coronary heart in the event that they know what they need in life they usually know what is going on to make them completely happy. I completely really feel like it doesn’t matter what it’s best to go for it.”

Blanchard added, “Life is simply too dang quick to be unhappy or really feel trapped by something in your life.” She famous that she was in a wedding that she “wasn’t proud of,” revealing that she knew her “coronary heart was elsewhere,” and she or he selected to “observe that.”

“I am completely happy,” she added. “I am very completely happy. You already know, that is the happiest that I’ve ever been in my whole life. And I am not ashamed of that.”

Blanchard and Aderson linked whereas she was serving a 10-year jail sentence at Chillicothe Correctional Heart in Missouri. She was convicted of second-degree homicide for plotting the 2015 killing of her mom, Clauddine “DeeDee” Blanchard, 48, with then-boyfriend Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn — who was sentenced to life in jail with out parole in 2019.

Whereas Blanchard was in jail, she and Anderson developed a relationship. They met in June 2021, and simply over a 12 months later, in July 2022, they married in a non-public jailhouse ceremony. Then, in December 2023, Blanchard was launched from jail on parole. 

Blanchard later introduced her separation from the Louisiana particular schooling instructor in a press release obtained by PEOPLE from her personal Fb account.

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In Could, she solely advised PEOPLE how “heartbreaking” the separation was. “Nobody will get married to break up. Processing these feelings has been onerous.”

“I believe that there’s a sense of freedom of following your coronary heart, following what you are feeling like is best for you,” she defined. “In my marriage, I felt like part of me was misplaced in it, and so I really feel like I discovered that lacking piece of myself that I all the time felt was misplaced and now reclaiming that again. I positively really feel a way of belonging in that area.”