Gypsy Rose Blanchard

I was nine.

My earliest memory of something just not being appropriate would be, you know, around the age of five-ish.

And when, after my grandmother passed away, it was me, my mom, and my grandfather all living in the house until he, you know, moved.

And so upstairs, there's a bathroom on the second floor and it had a tub.

And I remember my mom taking a bath and my grandfather like washing her.

And then she gets out of the tub and then proceeds to put me in the tub with him.

And, you know, I have this memory.

Other family members have called me a liar.

They do not believe this at all because they're like, the tub was so small.

How could two people fit in there?

I was little.

I was very little.

And, you know, obviously having my grandfather expose himself like that, I was so little, I didn't.

I didn't think anything of it because I didn't know anything about sex or anything like that.

But he found enjoyment in exposing himself to me.

And then when I was nine, after a bad car accident happened with me and my mom, she was left in the hospital and somebody needed to take care of me.

So my grandfather stepped in and I went to live with them for a short time.

And this is where the majority of the abuse happened.

And I was confused about it.

I felt like it was wrong, but I wasn't sure exactly why I felt it was wrong.