He's dressed up as Wolverine, and she's smitten. In the show, Gypsy meets a man named Scott, played by Joe Tippett, at a comics convention. Gypsy claimed she wasn’t allowed to have her own Facebook account or even identity, and this pushed her to sneak around, reported BuzzFeed. In addition to physical ailments, she also faked that Gypsy was developmentally slow and pretended that Gypsy was years younger than she actually was. She didn’t want her daughter to date, most likely because it would contradict their scam. In 'The Act,' Gypsy tries to run off with a man, which does in fact have basis in reality.ĭee Dee was allegedly irate when she found out Gypsy had an interest in dating.

“In this case because of the additional sheltered-ness and because of how isolated she was that warped-ness got even larger.” You can’t do that, and women have traditionally been told to turn it off as if they don’t have sexual desires and it’s warping,” Michelle Dean, whose article for BuzzFeed News served as the basis for 'The Act,” told. “Dee Dee was trying to clamp down on something that ultimately is impossible to tell somebody to turn off. The whole ruse was allegedly just a way for the mother to gain sympathy, donations, attention, and even free trips to Disney World.īut the series shows that as Gypsy blossomed from a child to a teenager, the mother-daughter relationship became strained - especially when romantic prospects entered the picture. Instead of getting to live the life of a healthy girl and teen (which she technically was), Gypsy used a feeding tube and a wheelchair at the instructions of her mother, and got multiple unnecessary surgeries. In the new Hulu television series “The Act,” a horrifying mother-daughter dynamic is examined - and the most disturbing part is the fact that it's based on a true story. It follows the events leading up to the murder of Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, who was killed by her own daughter Gypsy Rose and her online boyfriend after Dee Dee allegedly forced Gypsy to pretend to be sick and disabled in a suspected case of Munchausen by proxy.

The act based off true story