Gypsy and Nick did not actually meet in person until March 2015, when Gypsy planned for herself and her mother to be at a Springfield movie theater at the same time as Nick. They had agreed on names for their children.” They maintained a long-distance relationship-he lived in Wisconsin, while Gypsy and her mother were in Missouri-communicating via text message. According to Dean, Nick “didn’t care that was in a wheelchair.

(Gypsy, at the time, was actually 19.) After the incident, Dee Dee was so angry that she allegedly “smashed the family computer with a hammer.”įor those looking ahead to the next, now notorious chapter of Gypsy’s romantic life, Gypsy would not “meet” Nick Godejohn, the boyfriend she would manipulate into murdering her mother, until 2012, on a Christian dating Web site. When Scott is hospitalized, Gypsy runs away from home to be with him.) But Dee Dee-using intel from bystanders who had seen them together-managed to track down the man’s hotel room and present him with counterfeit papers alleging Gypsy was a minor. (On The Act, Gypsy’s romantic relationship unspools sweetly over text and time. According to Michelle Dean’s BuzzFeed article, on which The Act is based, Gypsy even attempted to escape her mother to be with him-getting as far as the man’s hotel room. Scott, the character introduced in “Two Wolverines,” seems to be loosely based on a real-life 35-year-old that Gypsy encountered in 2011 at a sci-fi convention. The effect-for a teenager made to believe she suffers myriad health problems is younger than she is and is medically dependent on her mother-is intoxicating, and a catalyst for Gypsy going to extreme lengths to assert her independence.īut just how closely do these love interests mirror Gypsy and Dee Dee’s real-life romantic partners? The other is Scott ( Joe Tippett), a kind young man who looks at Gypsy with something other than sympathy. The first is a middle-aged man ( Dean Norris) who forges a relationship with Dee Dee by phone-gently questioning whether Dee Dee is overly committed to her caregiver role. On the third episode of The Act, “Two Wolverines,” Gypsy ( Joey King) and Dee Dee ( Patricia Arquette) meet two men who seem as though they could potentially defuse mother and daughter’s abusive, isolating home dynamic.

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