Gypsy Rose Blanchard hit back at trolls who called her out after sharing a controversial Mother's Day post.
Taking to TikTok on May 12, Gypsy dedicated an entire post to celebrating all the women in her life.
"Today is Mother's Day, and I wanted to make a video basically celebrating the really strong and wonderful women that I have in my life that have been mother figures to me over the last eight and a half years," Blanchard said in the eight-minute video.
She continued: "I first one to start off by saying I did turn off the comments to this video because I don't want to hear any negative bull****. If you want to talk s*** about me, by all means, I don't give an F. Go do it on your own platform, but I'm not going to see it in my comments."
She then mentioned her own mother, Dee Dee whom she plotted to murder with a former boyfriend.
"It does not go without notice that my own biological mother is not here to celebrate Mother's Day and what I choose to feel on Mother's Day regarding my own mother is that I think the best of her," Blanchard stated.
"I think about the good times. I think about her as not what she did to me, but I think about her as a person... Was she a good mom? No. Was she the best mom in the world? No. But she was still my mom so what I choose to feel about her, whether that be guilt, anger, grief, resentment, whatever - that's mine to feel."
She went on to state that no one else's opinion on the situation matters because they didn't know her or her family.
"No one can take away my own feelings about my own mother, and I feel like no one should be able to have an opinion about my mother except for her family and me because we were the people closest to her."
Gypsy and her mother had a strained relationship until her murder in 2015.
Almost immediately after Gypsy was born in 1991, her mom claimed that she had sleep apnea - a condition that causes the breathing to stop and start while a person sleeps - and within a few years, there was a string of other fabricated illnesses that followed, including leukemia and muscular dystrophy which saw the little girl bound to a wheelchair for a massive portion of her life.
It was only later on that experts discovered that there was actually nothing wrong with Gypsy and instead, her mother was suffering from Munchausen by proxy syndrome, a mental disorder that sees a person fake sickness on behalf of another.
She concluded in the video that despite her mother having "mental afflictions", she was a "good person" before going on to applaud her stepmom Kristy Blanchard.
After the video was posted, the 32-year-old received criticism for her words considering she and her boyfriend were responsible for Dee Dee's death.
The backlash, which involved death threats, got so intense that the star was forced to disable the comment section.
In the wake of the drama, Gypsy clarified to TMZ that the video was not meant to be disrespectful to her biological mother in any way.
"When I said that I hope my mom is proud of me, people are thinking I meant she would be proud of the murder," she said. "That is obviously not what I meant. I meant she would be proud of me in heaven, like getting my GED, moving towards independence and learning how to cook, clean, having my own bank account etc."
She also defended her stance on celebrating Mother's Day, adding: "Because of what happened with my mom, that shouldn’t make me exempt from wishing the other women in my life a HMD... I didn’t say this because of my balls and audacity, I did this message because I have women in my life that are supportive."
She revealed to the outlet that she had a "low-key day" on May 12, spending quality time with her stepmom while remembering Dee Dee too.
"I remember the good she had in her and the good times," she said. "I don’t think about the abuse or murder. I miss her and have a lot of guilt and regret."
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