Dee Dee Blanchard convinced everyone around her that her daughter, Gypsy Rose Blanchardsuffered from a long list of serious medical conditions, including leukemia, muscular dystrophy, epilepsy and developmental delay, portraying her daughter as seriously ill.

As a result, Gypsy underwent countless unnecessary medical treatments and surgeries, including the removal of her teeth and salivary glands. Dee Dee also confined Gypsy to a wheelchair, claiming she couldn't walk, and inserted a feeding tube to meet her fictitious nutritional needs. Isolated from her extended family and the outside world, her life was completely controlled by her mother, who meticulously dictated her every move.

Throughout her childhood and teenage years, Gypsy Rose Blanchard allegedly tried to escape multiple times, but Dee Dee Blanchard maintained a tight grip with lies, manipulation, and medical abuse to keep her completely dependent.

"I went to the bathroom, sat on the floor and covered my ears. Except I heard. I heard everything," she recalls in her book. "Nick entered the room noiselessly because there was no bedroom door, so when she finally woke up, it must have been because he was standing over her, not because of any noise. She was startled."

"I just heard a scream," Gypsy added. "And then I laid down in the fetal position with my hands pressed tightly over my ears. But I could still hear things."

According to arrest records, Dee Dee Blanchard was stabbed 17 times in the back while she was sleeping. Records further reveal that after the attack in Gypsy's room, Gypsy and Nicholas Godejohn stole over $4,400 from the home. The couple then checked into a motel to plan their next steps.

In the epilogue to her new book, "My Time To Stand," Gypsy speculates that her mother might forgive her actions, in part because of a touching coincidence: The ninth anniversary of Dee Dee's death fell on the same day Gypsy received the first sonogram of the baby she is expecting with by her boyfriend Ken Urker.

"I like to think that my mother is telling me that she wants me to move on with my life, that she forgives me," Gypsy said. “And what I'm going to do on this anniversary is her way of helping me change the way I think about myself every June 10th. Perhaps now, with my freedom, we can both be released from our purgatory. Maybe now she can be free too. She always said we were two sides of the same coin.”

As The Blast was announced by Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her fiance Ken they are expecting their first child together, just weeks after she filed for divorce from Ryan Anderson. Despite her turbulent past, Gypsy expressed that she is ready to embrace motherhood.

"I understand that with my past there will be many people who will question whether I should even be a mother or even have children in my care," Gypsy he said on ABC when she announced her pregnancy. "I know I'm not perfect. I know I've made mistakes in the past."

She added: "And I'll probably make less mistakes in the future, but at the same time I know right from wrong, and learning from past mistakes is growth that comes with time."

Gypsy discovered that most of her mother's claims about her health were fabricated, one thing was true. She believes Dee Dee used this one abnormality as a "smoking gun" to justify the many unnecessary medical treatments she forced upon her.

"I actually have what's known as a microdeletion, 1q21.1, which is a chromosomal change where a small part of chromosome 1 is deleted in every cell," she wrote in her book. "This microdeletion is known to 'increase the risk of developmental delay, intellectual disability, physical abnormalities, and neurological and psychiatric problems.' Wow. What a coincidence.”

Gypsy added: “Every disease my mother claimed I fell under all these umbrellas. Except I didn't actually have any of them.”

However, Gypsy later discovered that the microdeletion test, which revealed a legitimate abnormality, did not occur until two decades after she had already suffered from a host of fictional illnesses.

"Either my mother knew I had this condition before the 2012 test, researched the potential outcomes and ran with them...or, this time, the disorder she claimed for me turned out to be real (albeit without real symptoms)" , she explained. “This was a rabbit hole my brain went down and I still can't get out. Different scenarios keep me up at night.”

“My Time To Stand” is out now.