Savannah Chrisley shares update on her parents' lives in prison - CNN

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Savannah Chrisley says her parents are doing good successful prison.

In an occurrence of her podcast “Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley,” recorded connected January 24 and released Tuesday, the younger Chrisley offered an update connected her parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, who precocious began serving sentences successful national prisons for fraud and taxation crimes.

Savannah Chrisley said the household is “doing okay.”

“It’s pugnacious erstwhile your norm is nary longer your norm,” she said emotionally during the podcast. “What I’ve known for 25 years, my parents are gone and its tough. My dada is my implicit champion person and I don’t get to conscionable prime up the telephone and telephone him.”

The mates were convicted of conspiracy to defraud banks retired of of much than $30 cardinal successful loans. The “Chrisley Knows Best” stars and their accountant, Peter Tarantino, were besides convicted of respective taxation crimes.

Their girl is taking attraction of her siblings Grayson, 16, and Chloe, 10 (Chloe is the girl of the Chrisley’s lad Kyle whom they adopted). The 25-year-old talked astir the challenges of raising her siblings without her parents.

“Last night, Gray had a breakdown and he’s trying to process my parents and the concern that they’re successful and however that’s not the representation that helium wants to person of them,” she said.

She besides work portion of an email from her begetter successful which helium offered her proposal connected caring for the 2 children.

“I privation you to springiness yourself immoderate grace,” Savannah Chrisley work from her father’s email. “Fall successful emotion with the existent Savannah, the 1 that I raised that radiates a country with her kindness and compassion, not the 1 the satellite wants to see.”

As for her mother, she said she’s “honestly doing truly well.”

“It sounds brainsick for maine to say, ‘Alright, they’re doing truly well,’ but they are,” the podcaster said. “My mom, she’s made friends, she’s keeping busy, she’s going to church, she’s working, she’s playing immoderate spades.”

Todd Chrisley is serving 12 years astatine FPC Pensacola, a minimum-security installation successful Pensacola, Florida, portion Julie Chrisley is serving her seven-year condemnation astatine FMC Lexington, Kentucky.