Lifetime is bringing back its controversial coverage of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
The network said Monday that the second season of Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up will premiere on March 10 at 9/8c.
The new season will follow Blanchard as she files for divorce from Ryan Anderson, rekindles her romance with ex-fiancé Ken Urker, and becomes a mother.
In a newly released teaser trailer, Blanchard and Urker talk about the backlash that the couple has received over Blanchard’s pregnancy, while she is still being legally married to Anderson.
“I’ve already seen comments online of people saying that, ‘it should have been a condition of my parole to get my tubes tied,'” says Blanchard in the trailer.
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Right before the premiere on March 10, Lifetime will air a special episode titled, Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up: The Unseen Footage at 8 p.m. ET.
In the special, Blanchard will look back on her first year of freedom through never-before-seen footage.
She was granted parole in Sept. 2023 and officially freed on Dec. 28, 2023, after serving seven years in prison.
Blanchard and her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn were arrested in 2015 for the murder of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard.
Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016 after confessing that she convinced Godejohn to stab her mother to death as she slept. Prosecutors initially sentenced her to 10 years in prison in a plea deal after attorneys uncovered the alleged abuse she experienced at the hands of her mother.
Dee Dee allegedly abused her daughter for years by convincing her that she was extremely ill and had leukemia and muscular dystrophy.
In reality, Gypsy was actually healthy and was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, which according to the Cleveland Clinic, is a “mental health condition where you claim that someone within your care needs medical attention even though they don’t.”
It’s safe to say that Blanchard’s story has done well in the ratings for Lifetime.
When The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released in Jan. 2024, it was watched by 9.9 million total viewers on both linear and digital platforms and was cable’s top new non-fiction series of 2024 with women ages 25 to 64.
