- Joy Behar was caught in an awkward moment while interviewing Gypsy Rose Blanchard on "The View."
- She told Blanchard — who spent eight years in prison for murder — that she "had no choice really."
Gypsy Rose Blanchard has been out of prison for just over a week and has already gone on a headline-making publicity tour, including a viral interview on "The View."
Blanchard, 32, was recently released on parole after serving eight years for pleading guilty to the second-degree murder of her mother, Claudine "Dee Dee" Blanchard.
Appearing on the ABC talk show on Friday, Blanchard spoke about her life in prison and her plans to use her platform to advocate for other victims of Munchausen by proxy, "a mental illness in which a person acts as if an individual he or she is caring for has a physical or mental illness when the person is not really sick," per the Cleveland Clinic.
Blanchard conspired to murder her mother with her then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn in 2015 after she had been forced to portray herself as terminally ill for most of her life. He was convicted of first-degree murder and is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
During the interview, Blanchard said: "If there is someone out there watching right now, please listen to me, heed my words, that you are not alone in this situation. There are other ways out. I did it the wrong way, so …"
"No, no, honey, no," host Joy Behar said. "Don't say that. You had no choice really."
"Well, I did. I did something wrong," Blanchard said. "And I paid my dues for it."
It was only at this moment that Behar appeared to remember Blanchard's part in the death of her mother.
"Oh, you mean that part," Behar said. "Oh, yeah. Nevermind."
"Murder is wrong, Joy," panelist Ana Navarro added.
Blanchard was initially handed a 10-year sentence after pleading guilty to the second-degree murder of her 48-year-old mother. She was released from prison on December 28, 2023.
The crime captured public attention after it was discovered that Blanchard did not suffer from the variety of conditions her mother had fooled doctors and neighbors into believing.
Her story was told in HBO's documentary "Mommy Dead and Dearest" in 2017 and Hulu's miniseries "The Act" in 2019.