'I'd always been fascinated by Munchausen by proxy but I hadn't heard of this specific story until they sent it to me,' she told TV Guide. It stars The Kissing Booth's Joey King as Gypsy and Emmy winner Patricia Arquette, who wasn't aware of the real-life story until she read the script for the project.ĭiscover your new favorite show: Watch This Now!
Across eight episodes, the dramatized account lays out just how Dee Dee deceived everyone from medical professionals to her own neighbors and used prescribed medication to make her perfectly healthy daughter ill. Season 1 follows the bizarre true story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard who, with help from her boyfriend Nick Godejohn, murdered her mother Dee Dee Blanchard after years of being manipulated into believing she suffered from muscular dystrophy, leukemia and a slew of other serious ailments. Unbelievable true crime stories take center stage in the Hulu anthology series, The Act.
