Here's how to watch Lifetime's Gypsy Rose docuseries, available on cable providers, Amazon

Greta Cross, Springfield News-Leader
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During her first week and a half out of prison, Gypsy Rose Blanchard has been busy, traveling across the country and sharing her story with various media outlets.

Over the weekend, Lifetime's highly anticipated documentary, "The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard," aired on television and the full series is now available on streaming services. The series, which aired in three parts, features six 40-minute episodes.

Watch the first two episodes for free on Lifetime

The first two episodes of the docuseries, "Born a Prisoner" and "On the Run," both of which aired Friday, are available to watch on the Lifetime website for free. The episodes will be available until Tuesday, Jan. 16.

Access the remaining episodes through a cable provider

The remaining four episodes are available on the Lifetime app through one of the following cable providers:

  • Comcast Xfinity (subscription cost varies with different internet speeds)

  • Cox Contour TV (packages between $61-$146 per month)

  • DirecTV (packages between $69-$159 per month)

  • DirecTV Stream (packages between $79-$94 per month)

  • Dish (packages between $85-$115 per month)

  • Hulu+ Live TV (packages between $77-$90 per month)

  • Mediacom (subscription cost varies with different internet speeds)

  • NOW TV (packages between $45-$100 per month)

  • Optimum TV (subscription cost varies with different internet speeds)

  • Philo (starting at $25 per month)

  • Sling TV (starting at $40 per month)

  • Spectrum (starting at $60 per month for one year)

  • Verizon Fios TV (packages between $75-$199 per month)

Lifetime also recommends checking SmartMove for further cable providers.

Purchase episodes with Amazon Prime or VUDU

If you're looking for a short-term investment, all six episodes can be purchased with an Amazon Prime or VUDU subscription:

  • Amazon Prime ($3 per episode or $15 for all six episodes)

  • VUDU ($2 per episode or $10 for all six episodes)

Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released from the Chillicothe Correctional Center early morning on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released from the Chillicothe Correctional Center early morning on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023.

Blanchard, 32, was released from the Chillicothe Correctional Center on Dec. 28. She served eight years of a 10-year sentence for conspiring to kill her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, with her then-boyfriend Nick Godejohn in 2015. Godejohn remains in prison, serving a life sentence.

Throughout her childhood and much of young adulthood, Gypsy was allegedly a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental condition in which someone — in this case Dee Dee — makes another person ill for sympathy or gain.

Dee Dee was alleged to have made her daughter appear to have a range of physical and development ailments, including leukemia, asthma and muscular dystrophy, in order to gain disability payments and gifts from charity.

Gypsy spent most of her life in a wheelchair, believing she could not walk. Upon meeting Godejohn online, the two made plans to kill Dee Dee and escape to Wisconsin, where Godejohn was from.

On June 14, 2015, Springfield police were alerted to a post on Dee Dee's Facebook page that read, "That B*** is dead!" before Dee Dee's body was found dead in her home from multiple stab wounds. By this time, Gypsy and Godejohn were already in Wisconsin.

Following their arrest, Gypsy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received a 10-year sentence. She became eligible for parole after serving 85% of her sentence.

Greta Cross is the trending topics reporter for the Springfield News-Leader. Follow her on X and Instagram @gretacrossphoto. Story idea? Email her at gcross@gannett.com.

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