Gypsy Rose Blanchard is facing a fresh wave of public scrutiny after leaked prison recordings caught her using racial slurs and making racist comments about her own family.
Blanchard reactivated her TikTok to post a public apology before deleting it again.
"I was wrong. The words were racist, and I take full responsibility for saying them. There is no excuse for the language or the pain it's caused," she said in the now-deleted video. "Those words and attitudes don't reflect who I am or what I believe now. I reject them completely."
Blanchard reserved a specific portion of her apology for Mia and her now-fiancé, Andre Pittman. She said she is "especially sorry" to them both and revealed she had already apologized to the couple privately, while acknowledging she is owed neither their forgiveness nor any response to her outreach.
She promised to "continue choosing to be better every single day" and said she understands if people choose not to forgive her, calling that their right.
The calls were recorded while Blanchard was incarcerated for her role in the 2015 killing of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. Multiple recordings captured her using the N-word; her then-husband Ryan Anderson also repeatedly used racial slurs during the same conversations. In one call, Gypsy told Ryan her sister Mia had started dating a Black man, offering a colorist description of him compared to Mia's previous boyfriend. A separate recording captured her apparently affirming that she was racist, adding that she would never say so to Mia's face. The calls also featured jokes about the KKK tied to her sister's relationship.
Anderson responded to the recordings in a livestream, dismissing them as a smear campaign. "That's all these recordings are. Smear campaigns against me and Gypsy and whoever else is on them. They don't play anything good. They don't play anything of substance," he said.
Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016 and was sentenced to 10 years before being released in December 2023, roughly two years early.
