Miranda Lambert remembers meeting Gypsy Rose Blanchard

Miranda Lambert said she remembered meeting Gypsy Rose Blanchard when Blanchard was a Make-A-Wish child and said she “couldn’t believe” she was a part of it.

“I can’t believe I was a part of it, but you didn’t know it back then and she didn’t know it either,” Lambert said on Thursday’s Theo Von podcast episode. “Her mother worked the system and it worked because we all got to know her. The entire country music community. Just ask one of us. She was part of it. She was in it.”

Blanchard was convicted in 2016 of helping her ex-boyfriend kill her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, after Blanchard suffered years of abuse at the hands of her mother. Dee Dee Blanchard was believed to suffer from a factitious disorder, formerly known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy, in which a parent invents or causes an illness or injury in their child.

Dee Dee convinced everyone, including doctors, nonprofit organizations and family members, that Blanchard suffered from multiple illnesses, including leukemia, asthma and muscular dystrophy. Blanchard met several country stars, including Lambert, through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

“I met her several times,” Lambert said. “Super, super cute girl.”

Lambert said on the podcast that when the 2017 documentary “Mommy Dead and Dearest” came out, she went down a “rabbit hole” to investigate everything about Blanchard and her mother.

“When this all came out, I freaked out,” Lambert said.

She continued: “The whole thing was crazy. But to her it was real. She was a child. She was a little child.”

Blanchard served eight years in prison and was released at the end of 2023. She has since become a social media star and is expecting her first child.