Gypsy Rose Blanchard

And then I met Ryan.

And then, of course, I wanted to live with my boyfriend who had been waiting a few years for me.

So, you know, I just I struggled with do I go live with my family or do I go live with a partner that has been waiting for me?

You know?

And so that was the benefit of why then.

Well, I get released.

I get released.

And I go home with him.

We had an apartment in Lake Charles.

And...

I'm not going to say that I was unhappy.

I was not unhappy.

We had taken a trip to New York because we were filming a reality TV show, essentially.

It started a few days before I got out.

The Gypsy Rose Life After Lockup series.

And so we are...

navigating filming this show about my life present day and so that adds such an element of stress to it I mean it was a wonderful show I'm appreciative for the you know opportunity to go ahead and do it but it was a level of stress too because it's cameras all in your face I mean the very first night that I got out there's cameras in the bedroom with me and Ryan and

it's freaking me out because it's like my eyes were even trying to adjust to the color because in prison everything is so beige so you know gray it's colorless pretty much and out in the real world there's so many vibrant colors so like i'm adjusting to seeing colors and the last thing i want to do is be on a camera while my husband is trying to get groovy like

This is not what I want to be doing right now.

This is what's happening.