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Gypsy Rose Blanchardis a long-time Swiftie!

“I became a fan ofTaylor Swiftwhen I was probably about 17 and she was just starting out in country music and I loved her music then,” Blanchard, now 32, tells PEOPLE at the premiere of her Lifetime docuseries:The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.

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“I think she’s all about girl empowerment and that’s why I respond to her so well, is because I’m getting into that girl empowerment vibe type of lifestyle right now,” Blanchard says. “So I just, I get it.”

“I get her music and I think that she is an artist who gets women,” she adds.

Gypsy cemented her Swiftie status — andrevealed some of her favorite Swift tracks— in a recent interview withThe Hollywood Reporter.

“I am a Swiftie,” Gypsy, 32, told the outlet, adding that “all of her songs are really, really good.”

Gypsy also toldThe Hollywood Reporterthat she is “really digging”Midnightshit “Karma” at the moment.

" ‘Karma’ has been what I have been playing on my playlist a lot,” she said. “So I’m jamming out to that."

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Gypsy was released early from Chillicothe Correctional Center in Missouri last month after serving eight years for plotting to murder her mother,Dee Dee, with ex-boyfriendNicholas “Nick” Godejohn.

In 2016, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. Godejohn, 32, was convicted of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison.

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Dee Dee subjected Gypsy tounnecessary medical treatmentsand convinced her daughter and others that the now 32-year-old had a litany of illnesses as a child.

source: people.com