Gypsy Rose Blanchard and Ryan Scott Anderson.Photo:Gypsy-Rose Blanchard-Anderson/Instagram
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard-Anderson/Instagram
Gypsy Rose Blanchardhad a no-frills wedding in prison.
In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Gypsy recounted her July 21, 2022 morning wedding with husband Ryan Scott Anderson, a special education teacher from Louisiana.
“It was very, very small, we didn’t have any guests,” she recalled. “It was just something for him.”
Gypsy spoke to PEOPLE prior to her release last week from Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri. She served more than eight years in prison after plotting to murder her mother, Dee Dee, with then-boyfriendNicholas “Nick” Godejohn. Godejohn, 32, was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2019 following his trial conviction for first-degree murder.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard.Gypsy-Rose Blanchard-Anderson/Instagram
In the future, Gypsy said the couple plan on having a “reception, like a slash redo wedding with all of our family and our friends and the dress and the cake and everything, because we deserve that. I deserve that. He deserves that.”
“Our prison wedding was just something to where we can make our vows to each other,” she added. “It was something that meant something to us. And I think the party is kind of for everybody else and us, but mostly for everybody else.”
Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother Dee Dee.Courtesy Blanchard Family
Courtesy Blanchard Family
Anderson told PEOPLE that Gypsy had “inner conflict” at first about getting married.
“Everybody would tell her, you need to do this, you need to do that,” he told PEOPLE. “Oh, don’t get married because you’re going to go around and play the field and go out and experience life. And so that weighed heavy on her, but at the same time, she knew she wanted a family. She knew she wanted a husband and [to] eventually have kids."
Anderson said Gypsy’s stepmother Kristy was opposed to Gypsy getting married in prison.
“Kristy, her stepmom was pushing her really hard — even two days before our wedding — was really pushing her not to get married,” he said. “And I remember talking with Gypsy and then I was like, ‘Do you want to get married?’ And she was like, ‘I do.’ And then I was like, ‘Well, I do too.’ And then so we just kind of were like, ‘You know what? We’re going to do what we want to do.'"
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Anderson said a month before the wedding, he asked Gypsy’s father, Rod Blanchard, for permission to marry his daughter.
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“I wanted to make sure he understood that I was with Gypsy for the right reasons,” he said. “I had already met Kristy once and she liked me but still didn’t want Gypsy to get married. But after I met her dad, the only person that Gypsy said to me, ‘If my dad tells me he doesn’t want me to get married, I will not get married.’ That was the only person’s approval we had to get. And I got her dad’s approval and it was, ‘Let’s get married.’ It was just one of those things. We got married and, now married, she can come home to me and we can start her life.”
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source: people.com
