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Reporter home movies capture the vibrant spirit of a young teenage girl. They were the shining star in this town of people who can outlast adversity and get through everything. Reporter jipsy blanchard and mother deedee are local celebrities. Jipsy and her multiple illnesses and diseases had not been out of a wheelchair since she was 5 years old. What medical conditions did you believe you suffered from . Leukemia. Asthma. Both vision and hearing impaired. Muscular dystrophy. And seizures. Reporter behind the spotlight, jipsys life is shrouded in a web of lies. Doctors now believe it was deedee, not jipsy, who was ill, with a case of munchausen by proxy. Its essentially when a caregiver will fabricate an illness or induce an illness in their child in order to get medical care. Reporter dr. Jamie kofman is a Board Certified child abuse pediatrician. Its abuse on the child. But its to obtain attention or some kind of secondary gain for themselves. Reporter the fabricated illnesses and the abuse that went with the lies would come to light when deedee is stabbed to death, turning the once local hero into an unlikely suspect in her mothers murder. Jipsy was born perfectly healthy, says her father rob blanchard. After his relationship with deedee fell apart, he began hearing that his daughter was sick. Jipsy was probably 7, 8 years old. In a wheelchair now, needs a feeding tube. Reporter 2005, hurricane katrina. In some areas the water is now 20 feet deep reporter they were evacuated from slidell, louisiana, to springfield, missouri, where they pieced together a life. Largely from donations, disability payments, and Child Support from gypsys dad. The blanchards moved into that house built by habitat for humanity. A wheelchair ramp was built just for her. Reporter in between hospital stays, gypsy frequently jetsets across the country. Ball games. Galas. Make a wish taking her to orlando, all expenses paid and everything reporter but in private gypsy just wants to be a regular teen and find love, according to friend and neighbor aaliyah woodmansy. She would show interest in different boys and try to ask me advice on how do you approach them . Reporter aaliyah says mom deedee didnt approve of the girl talk. It was like, my daughter has the mentality of a child, youre talking to her about teenage girl things. Reporter gypsy ignores her mother, going behind her back, and sets up this Online Dating profile. She soon connects with this man. I need to tell you something, im no model, i have a medical condition so i cant walk. I have a chair i use. Is that an issue . Why would that be a problem . Youre an angel in my eyes. She was talking about this new guy that she was now in love with. We want a snow wedding in a gazebo with red and white roses. Reporter one day the fantasy shattered. Horrified when Something Different popped up on the facebook page. It said, that bitch is dead. Then we saw the second one which said, and i raped her sweet daughter too. Reporter kim and david race to the house. We circled the house. Knocked on all the doors and windows. Reporter concerned, they call for help and the police make a gruesome discovery. We have breaking news, the body of 48yearold claudeina blanchard is found. Reporter authorities trace the facebook posts to a small house 600 miles away in big ben, wisconsin, at the home of nick gotajob, gypsys boyfriend. The two are taken into custody. Your moms dead. Wait, go back shes deceased. What you want to ask you, did you have involvement in this no. Reporter gypsy and nick are charged with killing deedee. It was hard to wrap your brain around. How can this young, sick girl who cant walk be involved in her mothers death . Things are not always as they appear. Reporter the people of springfield might think they are witnessing a miracle when astonishingly wisconsin versus Gypsy Blanchard reporter check out begingyp first appearance in court. Thats her walking. Big red flags. I felt so stupid. If she can walk, what else have we been lied to about . Reporter at her arraignment, gypsy enters a plea of not guilty to her mothers murder. We are here in missouri, were driving to visit gypsy rose in prison. Reporter when she walks into the meeting room, im immediately struck by her radically changed appearance. She tells me about meeting nick online and quickly falling in love. Even hatching an illfated plan to introduce him to overprotective deedee. She had ordered me to stay away from him. That was a very long argument. Yelling. Throwing things. Calling me names. Bitch, slut, whore. Did you hate your mother at that point . I didnt hate her. You wanted her dead. Yes, but it was because i wanted to escape her. Reporter nick had traveled to springfield from wisconsin. Thats him checking into a local Days Inn Motel where he waited for gypsy to give word deedee is asleep. The [ bleep ] going to go down tonight. Just the gloves and knife . Duct tape too, to muffle her. Ill precut it. Reporter gypsy says she hands the items to nick and hides in the bathroom while he goes into the bedroom. Okay, ill admit it, i did actually stab her, i will admit it. Did she scream or holler . Yeah, she did. First she said, help. Then she called for gypsy, but gypsy didnt do anything. Reporter just moments later, incredibly, the couple says they have sex on gypsys bed. Deedees body in the room next door. Before taking a cab back to nicks motel, and there they are caught on surveillance cameras. Gypsy then shoots video of them in the hotel room. How did you go from this to this . I thought back then that i was a good person. And now i just see it as it was a fraud. And i made a horrible mistake. Reporter not only a horrible mistake. It turns out that house was actually the nerve center from which deedee perpetrated an elaborate scam. Weve unearthed the appearance of a long financial fraud scheme along with this tragic event. Reporter celebrities, charities, all coned. Did you always know you could walk if you wanted to . Yes. The only thing that i have wrong with me is i have a little bit of a lazy eye. Thats it. Reporter but the pills and procedures were dreadfully real. Including multiple gastro intestinal operations. Eye surgeries. Even the removal of her salivary glands. Medical records reviewed by abc news show gypsy was treated by at least 150 different doctors. Shed use her Southern Charm to get them to be friendly. And get on their good side. And then she had no records . Because of hurricane katrina. Wiped out all the records, supposedly. Reporter hospitals we contacted declined to comment. But we tracked down one of her former neurologists, dr. Bernardo flaskerstein. I saw a 14yearold girl sitting in a wheelchair. Reporter who examined her for muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy. There was nothing there to support either. That kind of made me very suspicious. Reporter and his suspicion only grew when he told deedee gypsys prior diagnoses were wrong. The mother was not happy with that. And when she left the office in a storm dr. Flaskerstein ultimately said, i believe that the mother suffers from munch housen by proxy. You could report that to social services and say, i have a suspicion. I at the time did not think that i had enough information to call. Reporter according to this Police Report obtained by abc news, another doctor alerted authorities when he could not find any symptoms that support what deedee alleges to be wrong with her daughter. Two case workers later did visit the home but found nothing out of the ordinary. And closed the case. Why did your mom do this . She was constantly seeking attention for herself. Because she didnt feel loved. So lets make this baby girl sick so it forever needs you. Reporter gypsy and nick here in their only selfie together facing the possibility of life behind bars. And now at odds. My codefendant was putting my name out there in a bad light. Reporter thats nick himself speaking to me Via Video Conference from jail just hours ago. Its the first time hes ever spoken publicly. She was basically the mastermind behind it all. I was basically a hired hitman in its own weird sense. Do you still love gypsy . I still do love her. Breaking news this morning, Gypsy Blanchard has pleaded guilty to her role in a plot to kill her mother reporter in a courtroom stunner, prosecutors cut gypsy a deal. How do you plead to the class a felony of murder in the Second Degree . Guilty. Youre actually a prisoner now. The prison that i was living in before with my mom, its like i couldnt walk, i couldnt eat, i couldnt have friends. Over here, i feel like im freer in prison than living with my mom. Just live like a normal woman. Prison isnt normal. No. Not for most. But for me, it is. Reporter for nightline, im amy robach. We contacted a number of charities and celebrities who gave money and services to deedee and gypsy. They say they were duped. And nick has pleaded not guilty. Next, more firestorm over the new tellall book about the Trump Administration. Okay, i never thought id say this, but i found bladder leak underwear thats actually pretty. Surprised . Its called always discreet boutique. It looks and fits like my underwear. I know what youre thinking. How can something this pretty protect . Hidden inside is a super absorbent core that quickly turns liquid to gel. For incredible protection. So i feel protected. And pretty. New always discreet boutique. with 33 individual vertebrae and 640 muscles in the human body, no two of us are alike. Life made more effortless through adaptability. 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But today the author fired back. Heres abcs david wright. Reporter even on the coldest night of the year everyone really has been talking about it. As cliche as that is. Reporter crowds lined up outside this washington, d. C. Bookstore, which stayed open until 1 00 a. M. They quickly sold out of the new kiss and tell book on the trump white house, fire and fury by journalist michael wolff, already the talk of the town. It seems like everyone has such a story to tell and wants to tell it. Reporter early reviews from the white house, not so favorable. Im not going to waste my time or the countrys time going page by page talking about a book thats complete fantasy and just full of tabloid gossip. Reporter the white house is not happy at all about the devastating portrait the book gives of Donald Trumps first year in office. They all say he is like a child. And what they mean by that is, he has a need for immediate gratification. Its all about him. Reporter today the author gave his first interview on today. He stands by his reporting, despite the powerful pushback from pennsylvania avenue. My credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than perhaps anyone who has ever walked on earth, at this point. Reporter the president s lawyers even threatened to block publication, to no avail. The Supreme Court has made very clear that you really basically cannot libel a public figure. And hes just left to rail against it. But not be able to really do anything. Reporter instead, the white house reaction has almost guaranteed that fire and fury will become a bestseller. On amazon its already jumped to number one. The fact that we are reading that trump was not prepared to be president , that he doesnt Pay Attention to details, that he is demanding and childish, are things that weve been hearing all year. Seeing them all in one place and in somewhat probably exaggerated form is more shocking than the actual facts of them. Reporter the Controversial Book appears to have opened a rift between the president and his former chief strategist, steve bannon. The two men, who seem to be kindred political spirits. Steves been a friend of my opinion for a long time, i like steve a lot. Donald trump was the best candidate i think we had since ronald reagan. Reporter the new book quotes bannon using words like treasonous, unpatriotic, to describe don trump jr. s 2016 meeting at trump tower with a russian lawyer whom he thought had dirt on hillary clinton. Bannon reportedly says they should have called the fbi right away. Today former white house Spokesman Sean Spicer pushed back. Are you confident that the president did nothing wrong . As far as the campaign and the collusion, absolutely. I was there for most of that, the end part of the campaign. I know that that didnt happen. I think its pretty cheer that there was no collusion. Reporter so did former Communications Director anthony scaramucci. The treasonous comment is absolutely ridiculous. Theres nobody less treasonous than don jr. Theres nobody more patriotic. Reporter bannon has not denied the treasonous quote attributed to him. Or that he reportedly said theyre going to crack don jr. Like an egg on national tv. Or that he reportedly called daughter ivanka trump dumb as a brick. Trumps punchback . Steve bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency, when he was fired he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Almost immediately, bannon tried to apologize to keep the peace. The president of the United States is a great man, you know i support him day in and day out if Steve Bannons purpose is to have influence inside the republican then it was crazy o him to talk to michael wolff. If his purpose is to show that he knows the truth about donald trump and hes going to tell the american people, then hes done it. Reporter the book is just one of the distractions now facing the trump white house. Theres also the russia investigation. The New York Times reports that last year the president sent white House CounselDonald Mcgann to pressure attorney general Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself from the justice departments probe into russian meddling and possible collusion by associates of the trump campaign. A move that the times claims could fuel an obstruction of justice case. The fact is that the attorney general is the attorney general of the United States. Not of the president. The president has a lawyer. And the president s lawyers can protect the president. Reporter sessions ultimately did recuse himself. And that paved the way for special counsel robert mueller. President trump tried to change the subject today. The stock market is up very, very big today. 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