More than a decade after the murder that captivated the nation, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is sharing some of the most haunting details she remembers from the night her mother was killed — including the screams she says still echo in her memory.

In a candid new interview, Blanchard opened up about the moments leading up to the fatal stabbing of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, in June 2015. While the case has been dissected through documentaries, television dramas and countless true-crime discussions, Gypsy’s latest comments offer a deeply personal account of what she says she heard as the attack unfolded inside their Missouri home.

The revelations come more than two years after Blanchard was released from prison and as she continues to reflect publicly on one of the most notorious criminal cases in recent American history.

Speaking on the podcast We Need to Talk with relationship expert and host Paul C. Brunson, Blanchard described hearing her mother’s final moments from inside a bathroom where she had been instructed to wait.

The memories, she said, remain vivid.

“I heard screaming,” Blanchard recalled.

“It was a horrible sound. It was screaming. It was shock.”

She added that one phrase in particular has remained with her over the years.

“I almost think I heard ‘Who are you?’ was asked,” she said.

The chilling recollection sheds new light on a case that shocked the public not only because of the brutal killing itself but also because of the years of alleged abuse that preceded it.

Authorities ultimately concluded that Blanchard had conspired with her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, to murder Dee Dee. Prosecutors said the pair planned the attack together before Godejohn traveled to Missouri and carried out the fatal stabbing.

The murder occurred on June 14, 2015, inside the family’s home in Springfield.

For years before Dee Dee’s death, Gypsy had been presented to the public as a severely ill child suffering from a range of medical conditions, including leukemia, muscular dystrophy and developmental disabilities.

Investigators later alleged that many of those illnesses had been fabricated or exaggerated by Dee Dee in what experts described as a suspected case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, now more commonly referred to as factitious disorder imposed on another.

According to investigators, Gypsy endured years of unnecessary medications, treatments and medical procedures.

The allegations transformed public perception of the case.

While the killing itself remained a serious crime, many observers viewed it through the lens of the abuse allegations that emerged afterward.

Still, the events of that night remain disturbing.

During the podcast interview, Blanchard recounted the sequence of events leading up to the attack.

She said she notified Godejohn after Dee Dee had fallen asleep.

According to her account, Godejohn then entered the house.

Blanchard said she handed him a knife before he instructed her to wait in the bathroom.

What happened next would forever change her life.

While hidden away, she says she could hear the sounds of violence coming from the bedroom.

The screams, she recalled, reflected confusion and terror.

Years later, transcripts from court proceedings and statements attributed to Godejohn have added further context to those moments.

Blanchard told Brunson that testimony and inmate conversations suggested Dee Dee asked her attacker who he was.

According to those accounts, Godejohn allegedly delivered a chilling response.

“And he responded, ‘I am death,’” Blanchard said.

The statement has become one of the most disturbing details associated with the case.

Whether spoken exactly as remembered or reconstructed through later testimony, the phrase has contributed to the enduring fascination surrounding the crime.

For Blanchard, however, the focus of her memory is not the words themselves but the emotional turmoil she experienced while listening from behind a locked bathroom door.

One of the most painful moments, she said, came when her mother called out for her.

 

“I remember her calling out for my name,” Blanchard said.

The memory still affects her.

Despite participating in the plot, she says she experienced conflicting emotions in those moments.

“I wanted to go and help her,” she explained.

“Like, I felt like I wanted to go and help her.”

But fear, she said, prevented her from acting.

“I was terrified at the same time. Like my body was paralyzed. I couldn’t move.”

The admission highlights the complicated emotional landscape that has surrounded the case from the beginning.

Legal experts, psychologists and members of the public have long debated the extent to which years of alleged abuse influenced Blanchard’s decisions.

While many sympathized with her circumstances, prosecutors maintained that planning a murder crossed a legal line.

Ultimately, Blanchard accepted a plea agreement and was sentenced to 10 years in prison for second-degree murder.

She served more than eight years before being granted parole and released in December 2023.

Godejohn, meanwhile, faced a much harsher outcome.

Unlike Blanchard, he chose to take his case to trial.

A jury found him guilty of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

He remains incarcerated.

The differing sentences have remained a source of controversy.

Supporters of Blanchard argue that her years of alleged abuse justified leniency and that she was acting out of desperation.

Others believe both individuals should have faced similar consequences because both played essential roles in the killing.

Those debates continue today, fueled by ongoing media coverage and Blanchard’s growing public profile.

Since her release, she has become one of the most recognizable figures in modern true crime.

Her life after prison has attracted enormous attention through interviews, documentaries, social media activity and reality television projects.

Many people remain fascinated by how she is adjusting to life outside prison after spending much of her childhood under her mother’s control and much of her adulthood behind bars.

Blanchard has repeatedly acknowledged the complexity of her past.

While she has spoken openly about the abuse she says she endured, she has also expressed regret over the decision to orchestrate her mother’s killing.

In various interviews, she has said she wishes she had found another way to escape her circumstances.

Those reflections continue to shape her public narrative.

The latest interview adds another layer to that story.

Rather than focusing on legal arguments or public controversy, it centers on the deeply personal memories that continue to haunt her.

Listening to her mother’s screams, hearing her name called out and feeling unable to intervene remain among the most painful moments of her life.

For many observers, the interview serves as a reminder that the case remains emotionally complicated even years later.

It is a story involving allegations of long-term abuse, manipulation, violence, trauma and ultimately murder.

No amount of time has erased the tragedy at its center.

The death of Dee Dee Blanchard ended one chapter of a deeply troubled relationship, but the consequences continue to reverberate through the lives of everyone involved.

More than ten years after that summer night in Missouri, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is still grappling with the sounds she heard from behind the bathroom door.

And as she continues sharing her experiences, the case that shocked the nation remains one of the most complex and emotionally charged crime stories of the modern era.