‘The View’s’ Joy Behar tells Gypsy Rose Blanchard: ‘You had no choice’ murdering your mom
“Murder is wrong, Joy.”
Joy Behar had to eat her words when she accidentally endorsed murder on Friday’s episode of “The View.”
During the talk show’s interview with Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the 81-year-old longtime panelist was quick to defend the 32-year-old, who was released from prison on Dec. 28.
Blanchard pleaded guilty in 2016 to second-degree murder for acting with ex-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn in the 2015 stabbing death of her abusive mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, and served more than seven years behind bars.
“If there’s someone out there watching right now, please listen to me [and] heed my words that you are not alone in this situation, there are other ways out. I did it the wrong way,” the author of the book “Release: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom,” 32, said on the January 5 broadcast of the morning show.
At that moment, Behar replied, “No, no, no, don’t say that. You had no choice,” seemingly implying that Gypsy Rose had to kill her mother.
“I did. I did something wrong, and I paid my dues for it,” Gypsy Rose responded, before Behar realized what she implied with her previous statement.
“Oh, you mean that part,” Behar said, laughing along with the studio audience. “Oh, yeah. Never mind.”
“The View” co-hosts Sara Haines, 46, and Ana Navarro, 52, joined the conversation to reprimand Behar.
“Where are you going with this, Joy?” Haines asked. Navarro then leaned over, adding, “Murder is wrong, Joy.”
Gypsy Rose concurred with Navarro, reiterating, “Yes, murder is wrong.”
In her second public interview since her release, following an earlier appearance on Good Morning America, Gypsy Rose explained that she intends to spend her life helping other victims of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
As a child, Blanchard was forced by her mother to pretend she was suffering from a host of illnesses as well as leukemia and muscular dystrophy that falsely forced her to be confined to a wheelchair for over two decades.
Prosecutors in the case believed Clauddine had Munchausen syndrome by proxy — a psychological disorder where parents fabricate their child’s illness and subject their child to unnecessary medical treatments, often to garner attention for themselves.
“I’m going to try to create some change and be a voice for the voiceless,” Blanchard said.
Blanchard has been keeping busy with her husband, Ryan Scott Anderson, in the few short days since her release.
The convicted felon has boasted of her sex life, detailed her desire to meet Taylor Swift, shared a video on TikTok declaring she is “finally free” and posted her “first selfie of freedom.”
