For my film, I wanted to take a different approach to this syndrome because of the inspiration I have taken from the show, The Act (2019 dir Nicholas Antosca)This show was based on a true story of a mother (Dee Dee) and a daughter (Gypsy) where the mother had server Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Gypsy was the most improbable suspect when Dee Dee was found fatally murdered inside her home in June 2015. She was raised to believe she was born with a wide range of disabilities and illnesses, including paraplegia, leukemia, severe asthma, muscular dystrophy, and epilepsy, to mention a few, and had been quite "ill" her whole life, confined to a wheelchair.
(The Act)
According to Michelle Dean's account of Gypsy, "She was thin and pale, and her teeth hurt and were falling out. She was fed with a tube. When Dee Dee had to transport an oxygen tank, a nasal cannula was looped around Gypsy's tiny ears." Due to Dee Dee's constant attempts to keep her younger, she had Munchausen syndrome by proxy disorder and was actually only keeping her otherwise healthy daughter (who had no concept of her age) ill for years. Gypsy planned to have her boyfriend—whom she found and started seeing online, apparently behind the back of her helicopter mother—kill her mother after discovering her mother's falsehoods.
Source: https://time.com/5553735/the-act-hulu-true-story/
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