Mommy Dead and Dearest Page #4

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When she was, like, 15, she was like,

"Oh, yeah, her learning is coming along,

but she's like, mentally,

at a 9- or 10-year-old."

Kristy:
She looks like

she would be 10 and 11,

and she was probably like, 21, 22.

I wonder what she was thinking.

Hello, everybody! This is Gypsy Rose

reporting from Aurora, Missouri.

I'm about to dive off our porch

[Dee Dee's home movies]

into the pile of snow.

You ready?

That was so grand!

Whoo!

All right!

Yooh!

Yeah!

[A special day]

That's so cool. Let's do it again.

Dean:
It's hard to answer

a lot questions

about who Gypsy is, right?

Because she was somebody else

for such a long time.

Dean:
And now we know her

as almost a completely different person.

- Erin Lee Carr:
I'm Erin, as you remember.

- I remember.

Dean:
I would be curious

if anybody Gypsy has talked to

feels they're getting the full story.

This is actually kind of the first time

I've been honest

besides being honest, you know,

with my attorneys.

Even then, I haven't been completely honest

with them, so...

Carr:
How would you describe your mom?

Um...

Unique.

Um...

I mean, I used to always think

that maybe she was a little overprotective.

So, if I had to say one word about her,

it would be overprotective.

Dee Dee:
How old are you?

[Gypsy, 1 year old]

(Dee Dee's voice offscreen)

You're one.

And where's your cranial?

Very good. And where's your phalanges?

Yes. Very, very good.

I really didn't think

any abuse was going on.

Um... it's like when you're abused,

but you've lived that way

your whole life.

You don't really know

that you're being abused.

You don't know any different.

Looking at the open ocean now.

And it's beautiful!

Gypsy:
I knew that I was different

or my life was different

from other kids'.

But people thought of us, as, you know,

the sweetest mother-daughter family ever.

The best two people in the world.

Carr:
What illnesses did your mom

say that you had?

Um...

Asthma, epilepsy, hearing impaired,

vision impaired, fed with a feeding tube,

paralyzed from the waist down.

Um...

slow, so retardation.

And-- among other things,

I just can't remember them.

[Gypsy Rose's diagnosis]

[List of conditions Dee Dee gave to doctors]

[G.I. reflux, anemia, hyperventilation,

incontinence, lung disease, heart murmur]

[Dee Dee's medical closet]

Gypsy:
I was on breathing medication.

Medication for seizures.

Medication to help go to the bathroom.

Pain medication, anxiety medication.

Just everything.

I would have to put on

the breathing machine every night.

I hated it, though, because it seemed to make

my breathing worse, not better.

And then another machine

was for the feeding tube.

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