As reported by ABC, Gypsy and her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, relocated to Springfield, Missouri from Louisiana in 2008 and moved into a house built by Habitat for Humanity. Though aspects of Love You to Death are obviously dramatized, the basic details are pretty true to the real story. Not only that, she’s perfectly healthy and was only led to believe that she wasn’t by her controlling and abusive mother. Esme, who has disappeared, is initially assumed to have been kidnapped by the killer, but then a shocking secret emerges: Esme wasn’t kidnapped, she ran away with her boyfriend (Brennan Keel Cook) after conspiring to kill Camille. The Love You to Death synopsis gives away the big twist: Camille is later found murdered. “You’re using me to make the world love you!” Esme yells back. “You are a sick girl!” Camile screams in the Love You to Death trailer. But as the Love You To Death synopsis teases, the mother and daughter are nothing like they seem. The 2019 film stars Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden as Camile, the seemingly “perfect” caretaker of her daughter Esme (Emily Skeggs), who uses a wheelchair and suffers from a number of ailments. Several months before Hulu’s The Act vaulted the story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard back into the public eye, Lifetime released its own dramatization of the case: Love You to Death.
This article contains details about physical and mental abuse, which some may find triggering.
