Gypsy Rose Blanchard

So, you know, it's crazy to say that the Ron McDonald house was kind of like, OK, that was my next home because we stayed there so much.

But then my mom found Section 8 housing.

And that's where we lived from there.

I feel like the constant arguments between her and her father, then learning of my abuse, just kind of all spiraled her more and more into this darker place.

Okay.

At around the age of eight or so, went in to the hospital for – actually, you know what?

I can't even remember what it was for.

But I did a long time in the hospital.

It was like a six-month stint in the hospital.

Okay.

And that's when they put the feeding tube in.

My mom drove us, but I don't remember what the initial appointment was for.

Yeah, that's a long time.

Yeah, so the wheelchair happened.

There are so many different stories that my mom told different people.

So the initial story that my mom told to family was I went into the hospital.

Then upon having surgery, I had a seizure on the operating room table that left me paralyzed.

That was the first story.

Okay.

So, of course, growing up, that's what I thought.