Show Notes
Her critics say Gypsy Rose Blanchard can't keep her story straight. So I sat down with her for almost three hours and asked about all of it. The pills through the feeding tube. The video where she tells Nick Godejohn she'd been hiding that she could walk since she was seven. And the Demona videos she has never addressed in front of a reporter.
You'll also meet the mother-daughter team behind Into the Weeds (youtube.com/@into-the-weeds-podcast), whose records requests produced what the internet calls the Gypstein Files.
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Chapters:
(00:00) Beignets And A Drive Into The Bayou
(01:50) The Questions Her Critics Say She Dodges
(02:36) No Mansion, Just A Fourplex
(04:48) The Breaking Point Was A Throat Surgery
(06:47) This Is My Voice
(08:19) Vicodin Through The Feeding Tube
(09:53) Did She Ever Go To School?
(11:46) Into The Weeds Files The Records Request
(12:59) What's Actually In The Gypstein Files
(15:59) The Video Where She Walks
(17:46) What Her Medical Records Say
(20:43) I Ask Gypsy To Settle It
(23:04) Videos Never Meant To Be Public
(25:56) Slave, Master, And An Old Facebook Account
(28:23) Dan Glidewell Testifies Under Oath
(29:46) The Demona Video
(34:25) Those Videos Were Disgusting
(35:14) Isolation And The Price Of Freedom
(36:10) Next Time On Pretend
Written by Javier Leiva. Edited by Puneet Shenoy with The Podcast Pundits. Theme music by Joe Basile, thechicken.net.
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