“It’s not a rehashing of everything that happened. It’s more of my reflection of everything that I have learned and experienced in the last eight and a half years,” she said of the book.

Blanchard was convicted of second-degree murder for her role in the slaying of her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard. Prosecutors alleged Dee Dee Blanchard had Munchausen syndrome by proxy and subjected her daughter to unnecessary medical treatments over the span of two decades.

Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a disorder in which a caretaker of a child causes or makes up symptoms to make the child appear sick, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Blanchard testified in court that her mother falsely claimed that her daughter suffered from conditions like leukemia and muscular dystrophy. She said in an interview with Dr. Phil in 2017 her mother also shaved her head and forced her to eat through a feeding tube.

In 2015, Blanchard and her boyfriend at the time, Nicholas Godejohn, plotted to kill her mother, prosecutors said, leading Godejohn to stab Blanchard’s mother to death at her home in Missouri while Blanchard hid in the bathroom.

Godejohn was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 2019, and Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2016.

Blanchard was released three years early from Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Center on Dec. 28 after being granted parole, a spokesperson told NBC News. 

On Dec. 29, the 32-year-old posted her “first selfie of freedom,” and was seen shopping and spending time with her reported husband, as well as attending a welcome home party with her stepsister Mia.