Mackenzie Shirilla is receiving guidance from another well-known individual.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard has shared her thoughts on The Crash, who was found guilty in connection with the 2023 deaths of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan.
“During her prison time, she needs to mature and accept responsibility,” remarked the star of Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up in a podcast with TMZ that aired on May 29. “Remorse might not come naturally to her at the moment, perhaps because she hasn’t yet faced it internally and emotionally. But eventually, it will hit her hard.”
Shirilla is facing a sentence ranging from 15 years to life, following convictions on four counts of murder, four counts of felonious assault, and two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide.
Jail records examined by Oxygen indicate that Shirilla will not be eligible for parole until 2037.
“When that happens,” Blanchard advised, “she needs to take those steps to do what she needs to to make amends with the victim’s family.”
As Blanchard sees it, between a lack of accountability and the Netflix documentary The Crash, Shirilla will face some tough odds in front of the parole board.
“I don’t think the documentary did her any favors,” she told the outlet. “Now, I can say, I don’t think she’ll get early parole and this is why. So, the parole board takes into consideration behavior in prison, but most importantly remorse and family.”
In the documentary, Shirilla claimed in an interview from prison that “the most logical” explanation was that she had a “medical emergency” while behind the wheel.
Shirilla, in an undated phone call from behind bars obtained by People, has also said in part, “I don’t need to be rehabilitated.”
Nearly three years after their deaths, loved ones of the victims are now also reckoning with Shirilla’s newfound fame stemming from the Netflix doc.
“It’s absolutely infuriating. It’s exactly what she’s always wanted,” Dominic’s sister Christine Russo lamented in a TMZ interview published May 28. “The second after she killed my brother and Davion, within hours of killing two young men, she laid in a hospital bed making TikToks and trying to get modeling gigs on Instagram.”
In 2016, Blanchard pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of mother Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard. She was paroled in 2023 after serving 85 percent of her 10-year sentence.