Gypsy Rose Blanchard advocates for the Menendez brothers if they are released from prison

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is looking into the case of the Menendez brothers.

Blanchard, 33, spoke with TMZ at LAX on Sunday and shared her advice for Eric and Lyle Menendez who could get out of prison nearly 30 years after being convicted of killing their parents.

“It’s hard to come into a world that’s changed so much in the time I’ve been in it,” said Blanchard, who served seven years in prison for killing her mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.

“Reclaiming is a difficult thing,” he added. “I would say take your time, you know, adjust properly and get therapy because you need it in this kind of world [and] day and age.”

In 2016, Blanchard was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison, although he was released in early December 2023.

Her ex-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejon, stabbed her mother to death in her Springfield, Missouri home in 2015. DD had Munchausen by proxy syndrome and subjected Blanchard to years of child abuse.

After her release from prison, Blanchard was in the spotlight as her documentaries “The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard” and “Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up” both aired on Lifetime.

In July, she announced that she was pregnant with her first child with boyfriend Ken Urker. The couple rekindled their romance after Blanchard split from husband Ryan Anderson three months after being released from prison.

The Menendez brothers, meanwhile, killed their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989 and were sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1996.

They argued at their trial that they were sexually abused by their parents and killed them in self-defense – but the jury still found them guilty.

Following the success of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix show “Monsters: The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story,” District Attorney George Gascon announced that new evidence of sexual abuse against the siblings is being reviewed. A court hearing will be held in late November, which could result in the brothers being retried or even released from prison.

Blanchard told TMZ that while he’s “not really educated on that,” he supports the Menendez brothers getting out of prison.

“I’m an advocate for victims of abuse in general and I’m about prison reform,” the mother said “If the case is reviewed, hopefully something can be done.

“Victims of abuse need to be supported more,” Blanchard added.

The TMZ reporter also told Blanchard that Kim Kardashian is advocating for Eric, 53, and Lyle, 56, to be freed.

“Kim is a wise woman. He made good decisions during his prison reform era,” Blanchard said of the 43-year-old reality star.

Kardashian, who has visited Eric and Lyle in prison, wrote an Oct. 3 op-ed for NBC News saying she hopes the brothers’ “life sentences will be reconsidered.”

“I do not believe that spending their full normal life in prison was an appropriate sentence for this complex case. If this crime were committed and prosecuted today, I believe the outcome would be dramatically different,” he wrote.

Blanchard also appeared on season 5 of “The Kardashians” to discuss the prison system.

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