Gypsy Rose Blanchard

I'm still trying to figure out how to navigate streaming because back in prison and before that, we had cable.

Streaming wasn't a thing, or at least it just started to be a thing that we didn't even have.

So coming out, I'm learning how to survive, gain independence.

When I first got out, I didn't even know how to drive.

So that was something that I was navigating too.

So it's like all of these normal things, I'm just learning.

So it's not like I had a foundation to be like, okay, yeah, I'm ready to tackle on being an advocate right now.

because I'm still trying to heal myself.

And a friend of mine had posed a question to me and

I thought about it long and hard, and the fact is that mainstream media, they want the story and to produce the story and put out the story when it's big and it's hot and it's fresh.

No one is going to say, okay, I can see that you're not ready.

We'll be back in two, three years.

Whenever you're ready to talk, we'll be here.

That's not what they say.

That's not how they present it.

And so I have kind of thought about choices that I have made and not necessarily regret, but I feel like I could have done some choices differently for the benefit of my own healing instead of jumping right in.

I think that if I could have gone back and done things differently, I would have waited to share my story in its entirety until after I've had therapy.

Because I started, you know, I'm not saying that I regret writing my memoir.

I just kind of feel like the timing of it, I wish I would have...

gotten intense therapy as I was or even before writing the manuscript, because there are some things now that I have healed from that I can maybe elaborate a little differently on.