Joey King reveals she’s spoken to Gypsy Rose Blanchard since her release from prison… after playing the convicted murderer in The Act

Joey King has revealed that she hooked up with Gypsy Rose Blanchard after her release from prison.

The Ramona and Beezus star, 24, portrayed Blanchard — who was convicted of manslaughter — in the 2019 Hulu limited series The Act.

King shared with Variety that she has spoken to the former inmate since her release from prison after serving eight years of her 10-year sentence.

“She and I talked a little bit privately, which was really nice,” King told Variety in an upcoming episode of the Just For Variety podcast.

The Kissing Booth actress also said there is no bad blood between the two after Blanchard, 32, said she was upset because The Act reportedly never asked her for permission to tell her story — nor did she ask her to do so before had compensated.

“She and I talked a little bit privately, which was really nice,” King told Variety in an upcoming episode of the Just for Variety podcast; Blanchard photographed January 5 in New York

“It was really nice to have that private conversation with her,” King said.

“We both know that there is absolutely no ill will toward each other,” King continued.

“I really appreciated that we were able to say those things to each other that were just really sweet and supportive, because people are stupid and people assume what they want, and people just make things up because they think it’s funny.”

She added: ‘There was no air to clear at all. There was nothing wrong. But it was nice to connect.”

King also noted that she was thrilled that Blanchard is out of prison and “can really start her life now.”

King was nominated for an Emmy and Golden Globe for her role as Blanchard, while her costar Patricia Arquette, 55, won an Emmy and Golden Globe for her portrayal of Gypsy’s mother Dee Dee.

Blanchard’s life after prison will next be explored in an upcoming Lifetime docuseries.

The new series comes after Lifetime aired the six-hour special The Prison Confessions Of Gypsy Rose Blanchard last month.

In 2016, Gypsy’s then-boyfriend, Nick Godejohn, stabbed her mother Dee Dee in the middle of the night, at her request to kill her.

It was later determined that she had fallen victim to her mother’s Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

For more than a decade, the Gypsy’s mother had medically abused her only child, pretending to have a litany of illnesses – including leukemia, asthma and muscular dystrophy – and insisting that the Gypsy remain in a wheelchair and have a feeding tube and had to take a series of medications. of medicines.

She even had some of the Gypsy’s salivary glands removed, which eventually caused her teeth to rot, forcing her to have them removed.

The Kissing Booth actress also said there is no bad blood between them after Blanchard, 32, claimed she was angry because The Act never asked her permission to tell her story or compensated her for it; pictured in January in NYC

“It was really nice to have that private conversation with her,” King said. ‘We both know that there is absolutely no ill will towards each other’; pictured in November 2020

“I really appreciated that we could say those things to each other that were just really sweet and supportive, because people are stupid and people assume what they want, and people just make things up because they think it’s funny”; seen in 2022 in Paris

She added: ‘There was no air to clear at all. There was nothing wrong. But it was nice to connect for a while.”

King also noted that she was thrilled that Blanchard is out of prison and can “really start her life now.”

King was nominated for an Emmy and Golden Globe for her role as Blanchard and her co-star Patricia Arquette, 55, won an Emmy and Golden Globe for her portrayal of Gypsy’s mother Dee Dee

Dee Dee had lied to Gypsy as well as doctors and acquaintances about her daughter’s age, leading everyone to believe that she was much younger than she actually was, ostensibly to keep Gypsy under her legal control.

During an interview with 20/20, Gypsy recalled that after her mother tried to run away, she “physically chained me to the bed, put bells on the doors, and told everyone I probably trusted me to keep going ‘. a phase, and to tell her if I was doing something behind her back.”

While Gypsy accepted a plea deal for second-degree murder for helping facilitate Dee Dee’s death, Nick was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Since Gypsy was released on parole in September, her fans have celebrated, with many stating that she never “deserved” to go to prison in the first place.