It famously played out to Gypsy Rose Blanchard by her mother Dee Dee Blanchard, who was led to believe that she could not walk, had cancer and even underwent a series of surgeries as well.
The Gypsy Rose story was told with a 2017 HBO true-crime documentary and through the Hulu show with The Act.
Not comparing blatant fiction with fact here – just for context, the story of Run isn’t pulled out of complete obscurity.
Gypsy Rose convinced her boyfriend to murder her mother after they correctly suspected what her mother had been doing to her since she was a child.