The Blanchard family has stated how Gypsy's ex-boyfriend was much more controlling and domineering towards her than what we are given on the show. While there are many similarities between Godejohn and Worthy's portrayal of him on The Act, according to the Blanchard family, he is seen on the show to be more gentle and sympathetic than in real life.

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In reality, Nick Godejohn really does claim to have multiple personality disorder which includes his 'good side' (Nick) and his bad side (Victor, the 500-year-old vampire). For example, Godejohn's real-life diet mostly consisted of peanut butter and pizza, so Worthy would eat the same foods exclusively in order to become the role. Worthy apparently did a heavy amount of research on the character before portraying the role and everything from his mannerisms to his diet was kept the same. There’s times when you’ll be watching it where you’ll hate Dee Dee and you’ll feel sympathy for Gypsy, and there will be times where you’ll feel sorry for Dee Dee even, and then you’ll be thinking that Gypsy’s a little bit villainous, so just getting it right was really important to me.Gypsy's boyfriend at the time Nick Godejohn has a few similarities in real life to the version on The Act portrayed by Calum Worthy. “Just knowing that someone’s real and is out there - I mean, she’s in prison as we sit here and speak right now. While King didn’t get the chance to speak to Gypsy prior to production - she’s currently serving a prison sentence for the second-degree murder of her mother - the actress explained the pressures of portraying a real person in this “complex” story. I just watched all these videos that I could find and just how childlike her movements were and how they changed as she got older.” King continued: “But I think what was super important to me, not just researching the story, was getting Gypsy’s voice correct and her movements correct: so when she would just look around or talk to her mom, anything I could do to make it as authentic as possible.

“She’d spoken to her many times, so whenever I had a question or needed more answers from her, I would able to go to her, which was great.” She was one of our producers on the show who had an intimate relationship with Gypsy and her family,” the actress said. “We had Michelle Dean, who wrote the famous article for BuzzFeed. To get into the mind of Gypsy, King went down an intense “rabbit hole of research” for the role, watching “any videos that I could really get my hands on.” Childhood of Gypsy According to Rod, who remained involved with his daughter at this point, by the time Gypsy was three months old, her mother was convinced that the infant had sleep apnea and began taking her to the hospital where repeated overnight stays with a sleep monitor and other tests found no sign of the condition.

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