![]() ![]() “The only time that she got up and walked around was at home, potentially in the dead of night. “Gypsy knew she could walk, but it would be better for her and her quality of life if she stayed in the wheelchair,” explains Carr. Here’s what Erin Lee Carr, the director of the HBO documentary Mommy Dead and Dearest, told The Rolling Stoneabout Gypsy’s condition and the extent of her own knowledge. According to Gypsy, her mother used a numbing agent to numb her gums, causing her to drool, which helped convince doctors to remove the glands. ![]() “Because I was taking lots of medications, and Mom said that they were for cancer, and she would shave my hair off and said, ‘It’s going to fall out anyway, so let’s keep it nice and neat.’”Īs for her teeth, they did rot and were subsequently removed, likely due to the removal of Gypsy’s salivary glands. I knew that I could eat, and I knew that I could walk, but I did believe my mother when she said that I had leukemia,” Gypsy said. “I knew that I didn’t need the feeding tube. “There are certain illnesses that I knew I didn’t have,” Gypsy Rose told ABC News. What is harder to gauge is how much Gypsy knew. We know she gave her daughter medicine to make her even more sick. We already know Dee Dee forces Gypsy to eat through an unnecessary, painful feeding tube. ![]()
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