Marcia Gay Harden (“Code Black”), who plays the abusive and manipulative mother, Camile, didn’t look at the role as being good or bad. The story is based on the true story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard from Springfield, Mo. It’s a case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy when a mother forces her healthy young daughter to pretend she is ill so she can reap the rewards from charitable people who offer her help. It’s easy to judge the incidents that inspired the Lifetime movie “Love You to Death” as extreme cruelty and abuse.
