After her parents’ appeal hearing on April 19th Savannah Chrisley shares that Todd And Julie Chrisley hope for a better result.
On Tuesday’s episode of her Unlocked In the podcast, Savannah remembers her parents’ oral hearing Part of their enduring appeal. Todd and Julie were convicted of fraud in November 2022 reported to prison in January 2023. Although the reality stars were originally sentenced to a total of 19 years in prison, Todd is serving his reduced sentence of ten years in Pensacola, Florida, while Julie is serving a reduced sentence of five years in Lexington, Kentucky.
“We went to Atlanta on Thursday night and it was a tough night. It was such a hard night,” said the 26-year-old Chrisley knows best star says from the night before the April 19 hearing. “Some things had happened, there was drama, and on top of everything else I’m dealing with and then this trial and this hearing, it’s been so much for me to deal with. I literally just collapsed.”
Savannah admits that there was “some post-traumatic stress disorder and some triggers” that caused her to collapse the night before the hearing: “I was sitting on the bathroom floor hysterical and crying [friend] Aaron, with [hairstylist] Tyler and with [boyfriend] Robert [Shiver].”
“But I needed it,” she adds. “I know my body needed it and I need to listen better to my body and its needs because it’s okay to break down. It’s okay to cry. It’s okay to feel all the emotions, but I tried for so long to convince myself that I was stronger than my feelings. I’m stronger than what I’ve been through.
Savannah jokes that she only got a “good, solid 30 minutes of sleep” and recalls the morning of the hearing where she “put my smile on my face, I put on my suit like a boss and made my way to the courtroom made.”
Savannah attended the hearing with her siblings Chase and Grayson, nanny Faye Chrisley and her boyfriend, who she went to see Instagram official with in November 2023, three months after they started dating in August.
Todd and Julie were not present at the hearing, but Savannah explains that the couple listened to oral arguments in their respective prisons.
“They listened to the appeal, they listened to the arguments and now they’re back, just sitting there hoping for change, for something different, for a different outcome,” she says.
The reality star, who currently has custody of her younger siblings Grayson, 17, and Chloe, 11, shares that she will be visiting her parents on Saturday. “I’m in my fighting phase; “I want to fight to bring my parents home,” she explains. “I miss her, the kids miss her and we’re just ready for justice to be served.”
When it comes to reality TV’s future of the family when Todd and Julie actually get out of prison, Savannah says that “everyone’s just trying to get on the same page.”
“Except [a] Reality show – the moment mom and dad get home, I guarantee you, we’ve already been told that everyone wants this footage. But right now my heart is telling me to focus on a show that shows more true crime and focuses on the case and the background and everything I do with prison reform,” she admits.
Savannah shares that she hooked up with her former attorney Brett Tolman, who launched the national Right On Crime campaign. Accordingly its official websiteThe Right On Crime campaign supports “conservative solutions to reduce crime, restore victims, reform offenders and reduce costs to taxpayers. The movement was born in Texas in 2007 and has led the way in implementing conservative criminal justice reforms across the country.”
“They represent everything I stand for,” Savannah says. “They represent everything I believe in, and hopefully my goal is to have Brett and I testify before Congress about the conditions in these prisons, the mistreatment of these men and women, the abuse, the government waste, the theft — just. “all of it.”
She reveals that the show is in final negotiations with a broadcaster. “A network wanted to see the real meat of this whole case,” Savannah adds. “So we’re working on it and I’m very happy about it because that’s exactly what God has put on my heart. “God has placed it on my heart to work on a project that will change the lives of millions of people.” I truly believe that this is what this can do.
Last month, Savannah told ET that she’s very optimistic about their parents getting out of prison sooner rather than later.
“I look forward to our appointment on April 19,” Savannah said at the time. “Of course I hope to have her home, maybe later in the summer.”
“I’m just trying to get it all done,” Savannah said of working full-time, managing a social/love life and supporting her parents as they battle the legal system. “Raising a 17- and 11-year-old is a full-time job, but also working and trying to give them a life and fighting day in and day out with lawyers to bring my parents home.”
Given the many complexities she faced, Savannah said she was considering a second career, perhaps as a lawyer, when her parents returned.
“I told Grayson I would do it. “So of course when mom comes home it’s her and Chloe, or if mom and dad both come home I would definitely go back to school and try to be a lawyer,” she shared. “It is never too late to make your dreams come true. If I could become a lawyer when I was 30 or 32, maybe I would just do it.”
Watch the full episode of Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley below.
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