Gypsy Rose Blanchard says Taylor Swift’s music helped her survive in prison

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By Nika Shakhnazarova

She is “Out of the forest” now.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard has credited Taylor Swift’s music for helping her get through her seven-year stint behind bars inside a Missouri prison.

The 32-year-old was released on parole Thursday after being sentenced to 10 years in prison when she pleaded guilty to her role in the 2015 stabbing death of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard.

Blanchard admitted to orchestrating her mother’s murder to escape years of abuse.

Now that she’s free, Blanchard hopes to cement her status as a true “Swiftie” by meeting her idol and he told TMZ that the “Cruel Summer” hitmaker’s music was what got her through.

Blanchard said she spent years listening to Swift’s discography after becoming a fan in her teens.

She claims the money her father sent her in prison was spent solely on purchasing each of Swift’s 10 albums.

It comes as Blanchard revealed she has hatched a plan to finally meet Swift at Sunday’s Kansas City Chiefs game when they take on the Cincinnati Bengals.

Blanchard and her husband, Ryan Scott Anderson, have secured tickets to the showdown where she hopes to meet “amazing girl” Swift when she attends to support her boyfriend, Travis Kelce.

If the December 31 plan doesn’t work out, Blanchard also plans to be present for the New Orleans leg of Swift’s Eras Tour next fall.

As a child, Blanchard was forced by her mother to pretend to suffer from various medical complications.

Dee Dee Blanchard had Munchhausen syndrome by proxy, a psychological disorder in which parents seek sympathy and attention through their children’s exaggerated or fabricated illness, according to Gypsy’s defense attorney.

Gypsy Blanchard, despite being perfectly healthy, was confined by her mother to a wheelchair and forced to use a feeding tube.

Dee Dee Blanchard presented her daughter to the world as terminally ill and with the mental capacity of a 7-year-old girl.

The truth only came to light after Blanchard’s then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, stabbed Dee Dee to death in her Missouri home in June 2015.

The then couple fled, but were located and arrested.

Godejohn told police he killed Dee Dee at Gypsy’s request and with a knife she provided him.

He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison plus 25 years.

Gypsy pleaded guilty in 2016 to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years.

Gypsy’s account of her life, titled “Published: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom,” will be published next month.