Blanchard, 33, spoke to TMZ at LAX on Sunday and shared her advice for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who may finally be getting out of prison almost 30 years after they were convicted of killing their parents.
“It’s very difficult to come out to a world that has changed so much even in the time that I spent,” said Blanchard, who served seven years in prison for the murder of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.
In 2016, Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, although she got out early in December 2023.
Her ex-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, stabbed her mom to death in her Springfield, Mo., home in 2015. Dee Dee had Munchausen by proxy syndrome and subjected Blanchard to years of child abuse.
After getting out of prison, Blanchard was thrust in the spotlight as her documentaries “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard” and “Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up” both aired on Lifetime.
In July, she announced that she is pregnant with her first child with boyfriend Ken Urker. The couple rekindled their romance after Blanchard split from husband Ryan Anderson three months after she got out of prison.
The Menendez brothers, meanwhile, murdered their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989 and were sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1996.
They argued in their trial that they were sexually abused by their parents and killed them out of self-defense — but the jury still found them guilty.
Following the success of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix show “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” Los Angeles County district attorney George Gascon announced that new evidence of sexual abuse against the siblings is being reviewed. A court hearing is set for late November, which could lead to the brothers being retried or even released from prison.
Blanchard told TMZ that while she’s “not really educated on that case,” she supports the Menendez brothers getting out of prison.
“I’m an advocate for abuse victims in general and I’m all about prison reform,” the mom to be said. “If the case is being reviewed, then hopefully something can be done.
“Abuse victims need to be advocated for more,” Blanchard added.
The TMZ reporter also told Blanchard that Kim Kardashian is advocating for Erik, 53, and Lyle, 56, to be set free.
“Kim is a wise woman. She makes good decisions in her prison reform era,” Blanchard said about the 43-year-old reality star.
Kardashian, who has visited Erik and Lyle in jail, penned an essay for NBC News on Oct. 3. and said she hopes the brothers’ “life sentences are reconsidered.”
“I don’t believe that spending their entire natural lives incarcerated was the right punishment for this complex case. Had this crime been committed and trialed today, I believe the outcome would have been dramatically different,” she wrote.
Blanchard also appeared on Season 5 of “The Kardashians” to discuss the prison system.
