Though the girl had a relatively clean bill of health, doctors chose not to probe and instead treated her for vision, hearing, sleep, and salivation problems that stemmed from the muscular dystrophy Dee Dee insisted Gypsy had.Īccording to the BuzzFeed article, one doctor in Springfield, Missouri, pediatric neurologist Bernardo Flasterstein, did tell Dee Dee about his doubts in 2007 he even noted "a strong possibility of Munchausen by proxy." But nothing came of his suspicions. With MSBP, doctors may be reluctant to bring up any suspicions that a patient or their caretaker is lying or exaggerating symptoms, because it could be harmful to the patient's wellbeing.Īs early as 2001, tests for Gypsy's muscular dystrophy and her brain and spine scans all came up negative for any issues. The Act is now available on StarzPlay via Amazon Prime Video.Patricia Arquette and Joey King in The Act Hulu + Brownie Harris People became suspicious about Gypsy's conditions. ‘Literally, the most risqué topics we even touched on were boys … and at the time I believed she was no older than the age of 15, so we can all assume that remained pretty tame.’Īleah added that she felt the behaviour of the character portrayed on screen damaged her respectable image by people who ‘prefer drama over respect’. Alcohol and smoking were things we never discussed. She told them: ‘It apparently depicts me smoking with Gypsy? That never happened.
The closest to it is a girl named Aleah Woodmansee, who eventually tipped off the police about the secret Facebook account Gypsy had to talk to her about boys and her struggles with her mother.īut she was far from happy with the interpretation of her character on screen in The Act, and later told InTouch that there were scenes involving Lacey and Gypsy that were completely made up. While there was certainly someone like that in her life, the character of Lacey doesn’t actually exist. Aleah (above) was erased from the show and replaced with neighbour, Lacey (Picture: HBO) Lacey doesn’t actually existĭuring The Act, Gypsy is seen bonding with neighbour Lacey (Anna Sophia Robb) – asking for her advice on boys and calling her when she was in prison.
0 kommentar(er)
