The 2016 Buzzfeed article that inspired the first season of The Act doesn't make any mention of anyone named Lacey, but does mention a neighbor that is around Gypsy's age and becomes her close confidant. Lacey is not a real person, but The Act uses her to serve as a stand-in for a real person who formed a friendship with Gypsy and was surprised to learn that the young girl who required a wheelchair to get around and lived with a variety of illnesses was not nearly as sick as the town of Springfield, Missouri believed her to be. The Act depicts the emotional abuse that Gypsy was subjected to prior to her mother's death, during a time when her only contact was a friendly neighbor, Lacey, played by AnnaSophia Robb in The Act. ![]() ![]() The tale of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard told in The Act can seem difficult to believe, but while there are parts of the show that are fictionalized, the events that transpired between the mother and daughter pair are true.
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