Gypsy Rose Blanchard Claims Grandfather Sexually Abused Her In New Docuseries

Sooner than she was launched from jail for her place in mom Dee Dee’s murder once more in 2015, the alleged sufferer of Munchausen by proxy  — now usually referred to as Factitious dysfunction imposed on one different — opened up in a sequence of newest interviews for Lifetime’s The Jail Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.

In one in all many episodes (by means of PEOPLE), she accuses her grandfather, Claude Pitre Sr., of sexually molesting her as a toddler. She moreover suggested the outlet the abuse went on for a few yr.

Pitre appears inside the docuseries as properly and was requested by producers on digicam about his granddaughter’s claims, which he denied.

“She was the one which was trying to the contact me, and I would say, ‘No, don’t do that,” he acknowledged in shock — sooner than claiming Gypsy Rose “started doing that when she was about 4 years outdated.”

When suggested her grandfather’s response to her claims by producers, Gypsy Rose acknowledged his response solely confirmed that she wished “nothing to do with him” going forward.

Blanchard, now 32, suggested PEOPLE she didn’t inform her mother Dee Dee regarding the alleged abuse until she was 19.

“I completely suggested her all of the issues that occurred, and she or he proceeded to let me know that he had achieved the similar issue to her when she was a toddler as properly,” she suggested the outlet. “It was onerous for us to every come to grips with the reality that we had every been abused by the similar particular person. And I imagine it makes me shock what else, what totally different type of kinds of abuse did she bear that I don’t find out about?”

“I’ve gotten to some extent the place I can stand alone two toes and say, this occurred to me and I’m not going to let it affect me anymore,” she continued. “And that’s the reason I’m talking about it now. And I imagine for me, making it recognized that it occurred might cease him from doing the similar issue to a special member of the household or one different infant or one different particular person because of he’s nonetheless alive.”

Pitre had no contact upon her additional claims.

The three-night, six-part docuseries, The Jail Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, kicks off Friday, January 5, with two installments each evening.