We have attended the premiere and outcome of very successful historical content series worldwide, such as The Act. But, what is reality in it? Is it as told? To get you out of doubt and to learn more about its characters and their facts, we are going to explain The real history of The Act: the Gypsy Rose case. If you are a fan of the series, you cannot miss this post.
In recent years we have witnessed a significant rise in series – there is even a large mass of people who prefer series to movies – due to the exploration of new themes that, perhaps, the big screen does not allow.
It is more than clear that it is extremely difficult to try to guess where the key lies behind the success of many of the series that have emerged lately given the variability that exists between them, however, in general terms, we could affirm that the variability itself of options offered to the viewer.
In this case we will talk about the series The Act, released in 2019 on the North American subscription service Hulu, and which has attracted the attention of a wide audience due to the controversial nature of the subject it addresses.
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The story, to a large extent, unfolds around a paradox: who is the victim? As seen in the series, the viewer is given the quality of judge of what happened, in a way, evoking the feeling of neighbors or acquaintances, as well as public opinion at the time of the murder.
Who is Gypsy Rose?
GypsyRose is the daughter of Dee Dee Blanchard, also known as Clauddine or Claudinea Pitre, and more than knowing exactly who this girl was, you should pay attention to what people believed this girl to be.
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Why do we affirm this? Because her mother, since she was little, affirmed that she suffered from a series of special conditions that did not allow her to develop a normal life, attributing a series of diseases to her, among which were:
- Leukemia
- Asthma
- Muscular dystrophy
- Other chronic diseases
In addition to this, her mother claimed that the girl had a special condition given her premature birth, alleging that she had brain damage, so her capacity was equivalent to that of a girl of approximately 7 years.
Sounds bad, right? Indeed, especially if she did not possess any of these conditions. In addition to all this, it is important to mention that Dee Dee made her daughter undergo unnecessary operations and surgeries, as well as treatments that, pretending that they were the solution to a problem, were nothing more than a facade of something non-existent.
The true story of Gypsy Rose
Knowing what was happening in the unhealthy mother-daughter relationshiplet’s focus on the fundamental part of the story: the murder of Dee Dee by her daughter or, rather, her daughter’s boyfriend.
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The events occurred the day June 14, 2015 at dawn in the Greene County in Missouri, United States, and although it did not take long for the police to arrive, Gypsy Rose was no longer there. Thanks to a series of posts that spread on the social network Facebook, many neighbors associated the murder with some kind of extortion or threat to Gypsy and her mother.
Before we continue in this story, it is important to clarify why when we told you the story of Gypsy earlier, we mentioned her mother under three different names or pseudonyms, do you have any idea why?
Dee Dee was not her real name, of course, Claudinea had changed her name since, taking care of her stepmother, many of her relatives/close friends thought that she had poisoned her, also questioning the care of her daughter, however , nothing could be confirmed.
The confirmation will come thanks to the fact that Gypsy was found with her boyfriend the day after Dee Dee’s stabbed body was found in her house, discovering that the girl did not have any of the conditions that the mother claimed, that is, it was a totally normal girl.
However, the girl was not the one who stabbed her, but it was her boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, whom she had met through the Internet and thanks to whom, as can be seen in the series, the girl manages to access everyday life. (to which she did not agree given the condition of the mother).
Why is it that this mother was like this with her daughter? According to doctors, it is an extremely dangerous condition, called Munchhausen syndrome by proxy in which basically someone’s caregiver makes up or exaggerates illnesses to the person.
It is currently known as Factitious disorder inflicted on anotherso don’t be surprised if one or the other is referred to when you read about it.
Now what happened to Gypsy and her boyfriend?
Gypsy was sentenced to 10 years in prison for second-degree murder.her boyfriend, in 2018, was sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder, certainly, it is a controversial story, which takes you to the limit of questioning the moral / immoral as well as the legal / illegal.
Truths and lies in The Act
The Act is not only a controversial series given the nature of the case treated: it is controversial because GypsyRoseprotagonist of the case currently in jailhas not let it go by, indicating that history does not reproduce what happened.
In addition, she is upset that neither Lifetime nor Hulu contacted her seeking permission to use her real name for this purpose. In fact, a legal battle has been launched against the series.
The truth is the truths of The Act are the ones we know: her mother lied and was murdered by her daughter’s boyfriend who she met on the Internet. The details of the series probably respond to an information gap filled with film inventions in order to make the series more dramatic.
An exemplary case is when the girl uses her laptop to do new things, such as meeting her boyfriend, her great window to the outside world. In conclusion, we recommend that you watch this series and that its story catches you by itself.
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