Gypsy Rose Blanchard told E! News in an exclusive interview how she marks the day of her mom’s death nine years later and why she hopes a “mutual forgiveness has happened.”

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There are no set rules on how to grieve.

And nine years after the death of her mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, Gypsy Rose Blanchard is continuing to navigate her own journey.

“When June 9 comes around every year, I find myself in a very depressive state. It’s a hard day for me,” she told E! News’ Keltie Knight in an exclusive interview. “Some days, what I do is I listen to music, I listen to some of her favorite songs and I allow myself that time to grieve—and I do it privately because I don’t want to be judged.”

The 32-year-old also leans on her family and loved ones. This includes her former fiancé-turned-current boyfriend Ken Urker, whom Gypsy reunited with after filing for divorce from her husband of less than two years Ryan Anderson.

“Ken has done this with me a lot over the years,” she shared of the ritual that involves her saying a prayer for her mom “and just thinking about the good times, the good things, kind of blocking out all of the negative and just honoring her memory in that way.”

Gypsy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016 for acting with then-boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn to kill Dee Dee the year prior. Gypsy—who testified that her mom abused her for years, including forcing her to receive medical treatments she didn’t need—was sentenced to 10 years in prison and was released in December 2023 after serving 85 percent of her sentence in accordance with the law.

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And as she begins her new chapter, she’d like to think she can peacefully close another.

“I have come to a level of forgiveness with her,” Gypsy shared with E! of her mother, “and I would hope that wherever she is—I am a spiritual person, I am a religious person. So, I hope that she is in Heaven, and I hope that she can look down on me and see me as a woman who has grown from her circumstances. So hopefully that mutual forgiveness has happened.”

Part of moving on for Gypsy involved the release of her Lifetime docuseries Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up (Mondays, 9 p.m. EST), a follow-up to January’s The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.

“I was like, I’m so tired of being labeled Gypsy Rose Blanchard the prisoner, the girl who did that to her mom. I was so tired of labels,” she noted about the inspiration behind doing the original series. “And so, I wanted to come out and show the public who I am as a person and not a story, not a label, not this or that, but me. And so that drive was why I wanted to do this documentary follow-up.”

And while Gypsy has certainly faced critics online, she’s trying to worry less about what they think and more about living life on her terms.

“I feel like I put my best foot forward with this,” she added. “And what the public takes from that, I hope it’s positive. And that’s really all I can do.”