Eventually, Gypsy learned about the years of lies of her mother, who Gypsy killed with her boyfriend's assistance to escape the abuse. The show, based on a Buzzfeed report, details the true story of how a mother, Dee Dee, forced her daughter, Gypsy, to seek treatment and take medications to treat nonexistent conditions, like muscular dystrophy. “The Act,” a Hulu original series, made a splash this week when it began streaming.
