♪ and in that dress i'm like you my lil boo thang so i don't give a hoot what your dude ♪ ♪ say girl i know you a lil too tame i'll be shootin' that shot like 2k girl i know ♪ ♪ tell 'em i'm tell 'em i'm next tell 'em you found a lil somethin' too fresh ♪ ♪ i know tell 'em i'm tell 'em i'm next tell 'em you found ♪ ♪ a lil somethin' too fresh i know ♪ [ cheering and applause ] wrong with gypsy rose blanchard, just out of prison for plotting her mother's murder. after years of abuse at her mother's hands, i the murder of her mother after abuse at her mother's hand. >> i didn't want her killed, i didn't want her dead. i just wanted out of my situation. >> byron: the girl everyone thought was sick but wasn't. >> my mother told me and told the doctors that i had everything from leukemia to muscular dystrophy.

>> byron: stunning revelations about that fatal night. >> when you made this decision to take part in the killing of your mom, were you high? >> yes, i was. >> byron: now a controversial social media sensation. >> hey, everyone, this is gypsy. i'm finally free. >> so many people are following you on social media. yet you were convicted of helping to kill your mom. >> uh-huh. >> byron: plus oscar pistorius. the paralympic champion known as the blade runner out on parole for the murder of his model girlfriend. >>ed reva, that's what you did. >> the trial was massive. it reached us on the other side of the world and back again. >> byron: once inspiration to millions, his trailblazing career shattered. >> just to watch him do it, it was a kind of poetry in motion. >> byron: and the outrage over him serving the rest of his sentence in a mansion.

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never wanted her to die. here's 20 over 20 co-anchor deborah roberts. do you miss your mom, deedee? >> yeah, i miss my mom. when you look back, do you think there are ways that this could have been handled differently? >> absolutely, absolutely. i look at things in hindsight, and i realize that there were other options besides murder, but i was so sheltered that i couldn't. i couldn't see them at the time. >> she's the face of one of the most shocking crime stories in memory. >> this is the house where claudine blanchard was found stabbed to death. gypsy rose blanchard, portrayed by her mother as a chronically ill girl unable to walk with that signature baby voice. >> i mean, cinderella's castle, but it was all a lie. >> her mother, deedee, was actually the one who was sick with the psychological disorder munchausen syndrome by proxy, where parents seeks attention through their child's made up

illnesses. your mother controlled so much. so many people just can't understand why you didn't just get up and walk out of that wheelchair. you weren't sick. >> it's mental. it's emotional. it's physical. all these reasons combined together is what prevented me from just walking out of that situation. >> give us a sense of the fear that you felt. >> i feared more than anything that if i ran away, that that things would be worse for me at home. >> gypsy becoming the mastermind in her mother's slaying after a lifetime of abuse. >> i actually didn't even want her to be killed. i just wanted out of my situation. and i thought that that was the only way out. so i think that there is this judgment on me that i killed my mom because i hated her. and that's not true. >> at age 23, she pled guilty for the role she played in her mother's brutal murder. guilty stabbed 17 times by gypsy's, then boyfriend. now, after nearly nine years in prison,

she's a free woman. are you ready to join the adult world? >> i am, i think that i have gained enough life experience behind bars. >> speaking on camera one week after walking out of a missouri prison on december 28th. when you look at these pictures now of gypsy rose, do you recognize her? >> i don't like i know that it's me, but at the same time, that isn't me anymore. >> in many ways, this is not gypsy second chance at life, but her first at 32 years old, with a new husband and a social media star with millions of followers. hey, everyone, this is gypsy. >> i'm finally free! >> gypsy's first tiktok going viral posted just days after her release. you're trending on tiktok. people saying things like i'm tipsy for gypsy. how do you explain this? >> i honestly, i don't know myself if i consider myself just a normal woman, but i think maybe my story resonates with a lot of people.

>> her allure bolstered by documentaries and by hollywood portrayed in hulu's award winning miniseries the act. my mom is my best friend. >> all she wants to do is keep me sane. gypsy >> so many people are embracing you out there. do you feel any conflict with that? you've got fame even though you participated in a murder of course i feel conflicted. >> um, fame is not what i'm looking for. um i always said i think i'm infamous. and then i came out famous. but that's not what i want. i want to be an influence for change. >> she's beginning by offering details of her life in prison in the new lifetime series the prison confessions of gypsy rose blanchard. i share my story to be a cautionary tale so that the next person that might be in a situation like mine, where they are an abusive relationship or

they are feeling trapped, that they don't take the route that i did. go on, thank she was eight years old, life for gypsy was nonstop pills and procedures. she was confined to a wheelchair where are you going today? >> i'm going to children's mercy hospital to see my dentist for my teeth. >> my mother told me and told the doctors that i had everything from leukemia to muscular dystrophy, paralysis from the neck down was one of in the medical records and the doctors see me moving my arms. so how could i be paralyzed from the neck down? >> were you ever tempted in any of these medical tests to say, i can move my arms? i can walk, of course, but my mother was always in the room with me. >> she never left my side, not

once. >> gypsy, forced to undergo numerous procedures, including eye surgeries, a feeding tube, the removal of her salivary glands. what is your health situation now? how were you permanently affected by all that you went through? >> i did see a doctor in in prison and i'm completely healthy. like i have no health problems whatsoever. >> grown up gypsy revealing for the first time now that she was hiding a dark struggle in the docu series, you reveal something pretty surprising you say that you were addicted to painkillers. how serious was this addiction? >> this is a really hard to talk about. um because it took me down a really dark path, but i felt like it was my only way to cope for a time, she says she'd had enough. >> after two decades of abuse. >> we have breaking news. >> a body of 48 year old claudia blanchard has been found inside

her home in springfield on june 14th, 2015. >> police find dee dee blanchard stabbed to death in her missouri home. authorities discover gypsy plotted with a boyfriend she met online, nicholas godejohn, to kill her mother. >> your mom's dead weight. she's deceased. all right, now what? i want to ask you, did you have involvement in this? no. >> the two even having sex in the nextrillionoom room near her mother's body. gypsy would eventually plead guilty to second degree murder. go to john . was convicted of carrying out the stabbing death and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. gypsy now revealing that drugs played a role that night. did your addiction have any connection to this crime? >> i think a part of it did. i would get high to stay numb, to not feel emotion. >> so when you made this decision to take part in the killing of your mom, were you

high? >> yes, i was, i was actually arrested with the pain medication in my bag. >> and do you blame that for your decision? no no. >> um, i don't blame the drugs. i don't blame anything. nothing i don't make excuses. there's no excuse for committing murder. >> your former boyfriend, nick godejohn, is serving a life sentence. is it fair that that he is incarcerated for life, for killing your mom and you're out? >> well, i'm sure that we both have a lot of regrets. all i can really say is that i did my time . he's doing his time. for his part. um and i wish him well on his journey. >> strange as it sounds, she says prison actually freed her. she's now sober and has earned her ged. how much do you think about your mom? >> i still think about my mom from time to time. um, after all, she still was my mother.

um, no matter what she did to me, i wish that i could go back in time and change things once she a monster. i don't believe my mother was a monster. i want people to know that she. she had mental illness. um, she had a lot of deep ins herself that she was struggling with. she was just a very sick woman. >> prison brought another unexpected change to gypsy's life. she got a lot of letters from a lot of people. >> i started getting a lot of support letters is one of those letters from her now husband, ryan anderson, a middle school special education teacher from louisiana. he just said, i would like to get to know you and i support you. and here's a little bit about myself. he sounded like a total sweetheart, and i'm like, i'm going to write this guy back. >> the couple married in 2022 while gypsy was locked up, ryan there to pick her up the day she was released. but you're really

together physically for the first time. >> yes, we call it newly together with what are your plans? >> do you want to have children? >> we talked about starting a family. >> we just don't know when. at this point, we're just trying to focus on our marriage and establishing a good marriage before we put kids into it. >> did you get your happy ending ? >> i think i did time time will tell, i think. >> i think i'm a prince charming . >> gypsy says she knows she still has a long road ahead. much of your life with your mom was built on essentially getting the sympathy of the public. how do you convince people that you're not manipulating them now, as you and your mom did so many years ago? >> i don't think i can convince anyone anything all i can do is be myself, put myself out there and in the truest form. >> i'm not setting out to manipulate anyone. i'm just myself.

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known as the fastest man with no legs. the olympian had been a role model for millions. all that was shattered after he murdered his girlfriend. tonight, after serving years behind bars, he's out on parole. oscar pistorius, the man once known as the blade runner, was released from a south african prison in the dead of night after being granted parole for the murder of his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. he was once one of the most famous and inspiring athletes in the world, winning six paralympic gold medals and the first double-amputee athlete ever to compete in the olympics in 2012. but the killing of steenkamp on valentine's day in 2013 changed his golden boy image forever. >> the oscar pistorius trial was massive. it reached us on the other side of the world and then back then, how this olympic athlete, this gold medal athlete who was dating this beautiful woman, who was popular in her own right, after three months is dating is

now charged with her murder? >> reporter: pistorius shooting steenkamp four times through the bathroom door of his home, claiming he believed there was an intruder. >> my ears were ringing. i couldn't hear anything. so i shouted, i kept on shouting for reeva to phone the police. >> reporter: but reeva had died almost instantly. prosecutors allege is pistorius killed her intentionally in a fit of rage and tried to cover it up. >> you killed reeva steenkamp, that's what you did. >> byron: the superstar's rise to fame and fall from grace played out on the international stage. the emotional trial garnering the world's attention. >> i don't have to look at a picture, i was there. >> byron: pistorius was eventually sentenced to 13 years and 5 months, but after serving half his sentence, he became eligible for parole. >> parole in south africa is very similar to that of parole in the united states. in order to get parole, oscar would have had to serve at least half of his jail time per south african law. and then participate in a number

of programs, whether it be psychiatric, anger management. and then just not get in trouble while incarcerated. he would have to be the model prisoner. >> byron: steenkamp's mother releasing a statement after his release saying, my only desire is that i will be allowed to live my last year in peace with my focus remaining on the reef rebecca steenkamp foundation. >> if you'd asked me ten years ago, who is the athlete on planet earth right now who is arguably the best role model? i probably would have said oscar pistorius. >> reporter: jeremy shep covered pistorius and interviewed him in 2008. >> did you think about what kind of athlete you would have been? >> at the end of the day, i'm happy in the situation as it is. i don't think i'd be the person i am today if i had had legs. this is my situation. this is how my life is going to be. >> i felt, wow, oscar pistorius, there's something charismatic,

magnetic about him, he had star quality. >> byron: he was the fastest man with no legs, which were amputated when he was 11 months old. >> he became one of the fastest paralympic runners in the world. he was someone who had gone from south africa to the paralympics in athens in beijing, to the olympics in london as well. just to watch him do it, it was -- it was a kind of poetry in motion. >> byron: he was an advocate for people with disabilities. >> he was inspirational. he was powerful. powerful, powerful symbol of the capabilities of humankind. sounds kind of grandiose, but he really, i think, occupied that position for some time. >> byron: then there was pistorius' fairytale romance with reeva steenkamp, a model and law student. they were south africa's it couple. she was making a name for herself on a reality tv show called "tropica island of

treasure." >> my name is reeva, and i'm a model. we are in jamaica this year. you can be jealous. >> byron: an advocate against gender-based violence, she was beloved by friends and family. >> reeva was all about love. >> she was always happy and smiling. always just had the most outlook on life. there was a -- not jun day ever did she complain about anything. >> byron: steenkamp and pistorius, together just a matter of months before the murder. after years in this cell, pistorius will serve out the rest of his sentence living in his uncle's mansion in pretoria, south africa. he won't be a completely free man until 2029. coming up, cash snack. the pooch with the muchies noshing on an expensive treat.

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