“She muzzled my mouth shut at nighttime, with a CPAP machine for my fake sleep apnea,” Gypsy detailed. “It was so unpleasant to sleep that way; it felt like someone was taking a bicycle tire pump and forcing a ceaseless stream of air up my nose. She numbed my mouth with Orajel, so I’d drool and slur; she was responsible for my teeth falling out due to side effects of superfluous medications.”
And while Gypsy ultimately served eight years in prison for her mother’s death, she reflected on how her mother may have felt the threat of her own impending criminal sentence, writing, “The lie of the life she had created could have gotten her thrown in jail on a list of felony charges as long as the Bayou.”
As Gypsy painfully reflected of her thought process leading up to her mother’s 2015 murder, “Was this the plan for the rest of my life? To cut me up and open, piece by piece, just because she could?”
In the year since her release from prison, Gypsy has managed to take back her freedom. Keep reading for all of the changes she has made in her life since her December 2023 release.
