@cnn: CNN's Elizabeth Wagmeister interviews Gypsy Rose Blanchard, who was released from prison after serving eight years over a plot to kill her abusive mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. She pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016 and admitted that she convinced her then-boyfriend to stab her mother to death. Blanchard was a victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare disorder in which a caregiver feigns or exaggerates illness in someone to elicit attention or sympathy. She had spent her childhood and early adulthood believing she suffered from a host of serious ailments, including leukemia, muscular dystrophy and asthma. After the abuse she experienced at the hands of her mother came to light, Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in prison and released two years early on December 28th. According to the Missouri Department of Corrections, she is expected to remain under parole supervision until June 2025. #cnn

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