Before Gypsy-Rose Blanchard made headlines for the 2015 murder of her mother Dee Dee, who had been subjecting her to a lifetime of unnecessary medical procedures and abuse as part of her Munchausen syndrome by proxy, she met Miranda Lambert — and several other country stars — through the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Lambert opened up about that experience and her reaction to the shocking news cycle that has swirled around the mother-daughter pair over the past decade in a new sit-down on Theo Von’s This Past Weekend podcast.

“Super, super sweet girl,” Lambert says of Gypsy-Rose, confirming that she met her “several times.”

At the time, Lambert — as well as the rest of the world, including Gypsy-Rose — believed the young girl to be legitimately ill with leukemia, muscular dystrophy, epilepsy and a variety of other conditions that Dee Dee ascribed to her.

“I believed her. I did,” Lambert continues, referring to Dee Dee’s story. “When [the news about her murder and Munchausen syndrome by proxy] came out, I was freaking out.”

The singer goes on to say that she got a text from someone asking if she’d seen Mommy Dead and Dearest, the 2017 documentary that chronicled the Blanchard family’s story. After that, Lambert dug into the case.

“And I’ve been down all the rabbit holes. I’m, like, in it. 100 percent,” she continues, saying she’s followed Gypsy-Rose’s story into the present day.

Gypsy-Rose was released from prison on parole in late 2023, after serving eight years of a 10-year sentence for second-degree murder. Since then, she has given a variety of interviews, released an e-book, participated in a documentary series and announced that she’s expecting her first child in January 2025.

Lambert says she’s not the only country star who spent time with the Blanchards back in the day. “Her mom worked the system and it worked,” she says. “We all met her. The whole country music community. Ask any of us. She was part of it.”

Though Gypsy-Rose’s story is very different than Lambert thought it was during those meetings, she points out that Gypsy-Rose legitimately believed she was sick at the time.

“But it was real to her. She was a child. She was a baby child,” she relates, adding that she was “very genuine.”

Lambert also says that Gypsy-Rose hasn’t reached out to her since being released from prison. “I mean, that was so long ago,” she notes. “She might just have put all that behind her, which, I would if I were her.”