Gypsy Rose Blanchard is using her own voice to tell her story.
Gypsy, 32, will narrate the audiobook for her memoir My Time to Stand.
Both the audiobook and memoir are set to come out in December 2024 — one year following her release from prison after being subjected to medical abuse and playing a role in the 2015 killing of her mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.
“I can’t think of a better way to connect with readers than for them to hear my voice as I read the words of my life’s journey so far,” Gypsy says in a statement shared with PEOPLE. “I hope readers will feel like I’m in the room with them, so they can find the strength, hope and inspiration to explore their own stories and heal.”
“For my whole life I was denied a voice,” she continues. Now, to be in a place where I am literally speaking my truth feels like a miraculous gift. And I can’t wait to share it.”
Gypsy’s memoir was co-written with Melissa Moore and Michele Matrisciani, and will be released by BenBella Books with the audiobook from RBmedia.
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The audiobook will also include bonus content of Gypsy and her co-authors detailing the behind-the-scenes making of the memoir.
In April, PEOPLE shared the news of the book, along with an exclusive look at the cover.
A victim of Munchausen by proxy, Gypsy was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2016 after pleading guilty to murder for her role in the death of her mother. She was released in 2023 after serving 85 percent of her sentence.
Dee Dee both mentally and physically abused her daughter throughout Gypsy’s life, fraudulently claiming that she had a terminal illness and the mind of a much younger child. After Gypsy’s then-boyfriend, Nicholas “Nick” Godejohn, murdered Dee Dee in 2015, both were convicted and sentenced to prison.
The memoir is described as “revelatory, harrowing and ultimately hopeful,” and sees Gypsy sharing “the painful realities she grew up with and the details of her life that only she knows.”
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Gypsy talked about the meaning behind the title when she first announced the book, in a statement shared with PEOPLE. “I am in love with the title of my book not only because it addresses the question I get most, but because in our pain and struggle we can find what it is that we want to stand for,” she said. “That inside our stories, if we dare to sit in the stillness of them, our purpose can be revealed. And we all have a purpose. That’s what I hope people will take away from my book.”
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Gypsy’s story quickly spread worldwide, culminating in the dramatization of her experiences in Hulu’s Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning The Act with Joey King as Gypsy and Patricia Arquette as Dee Dee. The case was also the subject of the HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest.
More recently, Blanchard announced in a YouTube video posted in July that she’s expecting her first baby with boyfriend Ken Urker, 31.
My Time to Stand: A Memoir will be released on Dec. 10, and is available for preorder now, wherever audiobooks are sold.
