'The Act': Hulu show unravels the story behind the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard by her daughter Gypsy
Hulu's 'The Act' stars Patricia Arquette as Dee Dee Blanchard and Joey King as her daughter Gypsy and premieres on March 20
Hulu's upcoming show 'The Act' is based on the horrifying true story of an abusive and manipulative mother and her troubled daughter trying to escape the toxic relationship. Dee Dee Blanchard, the mother, suffered from Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP) and had her daughter Gypsy wrongly convinced that she was sick and suffered a range of medical conditions from when she was a child.
Dee Dee convinced Gypsy that she was paralysed waist down and had her chained to the wheelchair for most of her life. Gypsy discovered the truth when she was almost 23 years old. She then plotted her mother's murder and escaped from her clutches with the help of her boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn who she had met online in the year 2015.
