The Past 28 Months...

Summary

Chrisley Confessions 2.0: The Past 28 Months...

Released July 23, 2025 by PodcastOne

In the compelling episode titled "The Past 28 Months..." of Chrisley Confessions 2.0, hosts Todd and Julie Chrisley open up about their lives following Todd’s 28-month incarceration. This in-depth discussion navigates the complexities of reintegrating into family and society, handling public scrutiny, and addressing persistent rumors, all while maintaining their signature honesty and humor.

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1. Reacclimating to Family Life After Incarceration

Todd and Julie begin by reflecting on Todd's return to family life post-release. They candidly discuss the challenges of resuming household responsibilities and managing the well-being of their children, especially after Grayson's knee surgery.

Julie Chrisley: "It's been crazy." [01:08]

Todd emphasizes the difficulty of balancing newfound freedom with the responsibilities awaiting him at home, highlighting the shift from prison life back to everyday family dynamics.

2. Emotional and Psychological Challenges of Reentry

The conversation delves into the emotional toll of incarceration and the struggle to adapt to life’s rapid changes. Julie shares insights from her time in prison, revealing that the emotional and psychological hardships outside are often more intense than those within prison walls.

Todd Chrisley: "Life is rougher than prison life." [03:15]

They discuss the importance of mental health support and therapy in easing the transition back into society, underscoring how limited access to such resources during incarceration can complicate reintegration.

3. Family Dynamics and Parenting Post-Prison

A significant portion of the discussion centers on parenting after prison. Julie explains the restrictive visitation time, allowing only 300 minutes a month with their children, which amounted to just 10 minutes a day.

Julie Chrisley: "300 minutes a month is 10 minutes a day." [07:35]

This limited interaction fostered a sense of detachment, making it challenging to reconnect fully with their children. Todd contrasts his coping mechanisms, occasionally embracing family dysfunction, while Julie focuses on emotional resilience and self-care.

4. Public Reception: Fan Interactions and Personal Pride

As they reintegrate into the public eye, Todd and Julie express immense pride in their daughter Savannah’s rise to prominence. Savannah’s public persona has garnered significant attention, bringing both support and scrutiny.

Todd Chrisley: "She owns it. She's a rock star." [14:27]

They recount heartwarming interactions with fans, including Savannah meeting political figures and receiving heartfelt messages from prayer warriors. Todd shares a memorable moment where Savannah's presence at events redefined his own public image and reinforced family unity.

5. Dealing with Media: Tabloid Rumors and Defamation

The Chrisleys confront persistent tabloid stories that have emerged over the past two years. Todd and Julie address false rumors about their relationship, including unfounded claims of divorce and Julie faking a breast cancer diagnosis.

Julie Chrisley: "They said that I faked my breast cancer." [37:14]

Julie vehemently denies these baseless accusations, clarifying her genuine battle with breast cancer diagnosed in March 2012. They express frustration over how media distortions can damage reputations and emphasize their commitment to truth.

6. Political Views and the Influence of Their Pardon

The episode also explores the couple’s political views, especially in light of their pardon by President Trump. They discuss the polarization in society and how political affiliations have affected their business relationships and public interactions.

Todd Chrisley: "We're all of one people. We are all God's children." [25:24]

Todd criticizes brands that sever ties to avoid political backlash, while Julie champions open-mindedness and respect for differing perspectives. They advocate for maintaining personal beliefs while fostering unity despite societal divisions.

7. Legal Actions Against Defamation

In response to the ongoing defamation, Todd reveals that they are actively pursuing legal action against individuals and outlets spreading false narratives about their family.

Todd Chrisley: "We're going to sue you." [35:00]

They stress the importance of factual reporting and outline the consequences faced by those who disseminate false stories, distinguishing between professional journalists and tabloids/bloggers who often bypass journalistic integrity.

8. Future Plans and Upcoming Topics

As the episode concludes, Todd and Julie hint at addressing listener questions about their children's absence and other personal topics in future episodes, promising to continue their journey with transparency and authenticity.

Todd Chrisley: "But I want to kind of save that for the next one because I think it's going to take a lot more time on that topic." [27:43]

Julie reiterates their commitment to honesty and invites listeners to stay engaged with their ongoing narrative.

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Notable Quotes

• Todd Chrisley: "Life is rougher than prison life." [03:15]
• Julie Chrisley: "300 minutes a month is 10 minutes a day." [07:35]
• Todd Chrisley: "She owns it. She's a rock star." [14:27]
• Todd Chrisley: "We're all of one people. We are all God's children." [25:24]
• Todd Chrisley: "We're going to sue you." [35:00]

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In "The Past 28 Months...", Todd and Julie Chrisley offer a raw and unfiltered look into their lives after Todd’s incarceration. They navigate the complexities of rebuilding family bonds, managing public perception, and combating defamatory media narratives with resilience and faith. Their open dialogue provides listeners with an intimate glimpse into their struggles and triumphs, reinforcing the enduring strength of their family ties and commitment to truth.

Transcript

[Julie Chrisley]

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[Todd Chrisley]

Back to Chrisley Confessions 2.0.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes, we're getting back into the swing of things.

[Todd Chrisley]

So how's it feel after love after lockup?

[Julie Chrisley]

Really?

[Todd Chrisley]

Oh, that's another show, right?

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah, that's another show that we're not on.

[Todd Chrisley]

Oh, okay. I want to research that because I want to find out if their love after lockup is kind of like my love after lockup. Cause I feel like you're a lot rougher now.

[Julie Chrisley]

Todd, shut up. This is not what this is about today.

[Todd Chrisley]

Okay, well, then I'll just move on.

[Julie Chrisley]

So, as you can see, he hasn't changed at all.

[Todd Chrisley]

So how are you today?

[Julie Chrisley]

Good.

[Todd Chrisley]

Good, good, good.

[Julie Chrisley]

It's been crazy.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, yeah, because you've been having to get back in the swing of taking control of everything and running a house and making sure everything's done the way it's supposed to be done. Getting kids. I mean, Grayson had surgery on his knees. You had to deal with that. And for everyone out there, I have never done a drug, never smoked, taken alcohol or whatever.

[Julie Chrisley]

But taking alcohol or.

[Todd Chrisley]

What is it called? Drinking alcohol, you know, I've never drank alcohol. But I am now roommates with Griselda and otherwise known as Savannah Chrisley, who gave me a pinch of a sleeping pill because I had been up since 4 o' clock in the morning flying to Tampa to do a speaking engagement. And so she gave me a pinch of some little yellow peel to help me sleep. She knocked me out from 11 o' clock last night until 3:30 today. Yeah, she put my demons to sleep.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah. Not saying.

[Todd Chrisley]

So you telling me? I'm just worried they've rested up and they're going to come back with a vengeance.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah, Grayson said I had to leave for just a minute to go get his medicine. And he came back and he said, mom, this is why I said, you can't leave me with dad. Well, yeah, because he would. He was laid out on the floor, fell, and you were passed out.

[Todd Chrisley]

He wasn't laid out. No floor.

[Julie Chrisley]

He really was.

[Todd Chrisley]

He was told to keep his string being ass on that sofa.

[Julie Chrisley]

Okay, well, he didn't.

[Todd Chrisley]

And again, I don't want to listen. Well then you know what, let him crawl to the toilet then. Because he was told to stay on the sofa and you can't. How am I going to help him? I didn't know I was in the world.

[Julie Chrisley]

Exactly. That's what I mean, you're such a responsible parent.

[Todd Chrisley]

You know, I went to prison for 28 months. I never had trouble sleeping. Maybe because I wouldn't fight with everybody, because let me tell you something. The members of my mob, otherwise known as the Chrisley clan, they're the ones who have kept me awake these years. It wasn't inmates.

[Julie Chrisley]

The truth, you know, I mean, I've actually talked to a few of the women that I was in prison with that, you know, they're already home, whatever. And we all have this general consensus that. And it's. It's kind of weird to even say it.

[Todd Chrisley]

No, it's not weird. Life is rougher than prison life.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

I mean, that's a sad thing to say because it is so horrific, the conditions that you're there for. Right, but that's from a physical standpoint, but from an emotional and psychological standpoint, it is harder dealing with day to day because.

[Julie Chrisley]

Well, when you're in prison, you can't, you know that you don't have any control, you know, that you cannot, there's, there's very little you can do because you're in prison. So you can't. And people told me this when you, when I first got there, you know, like you can't live out there and in here at the same time because it'll literally run you.

[Todd Chrisley]

And that's the God's honest truth.

[Julie Chrisley]

And that's the truth. And the longer you're there, the more removed you become to the world.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, you know, I've said that before, you know, about when you don't raise your children when they're not. When you're not present in their lives every day. And it's a split custody or someone has sole custody and you get visitation, that one who gets visitation can detach and move on with their life.

[Julie Chrisley]

You know, I've said that as. I've said that too. The longer that people are away from their kids, as crazy as it sounds, because it's a double edged sword, the easier it becomes because you get into your own routine. It doesn't mean you don't miss them, you don't love them, all that. But just from me being in Prison, I had to just watch out for me. Like I had to take care of me. I had to make sure that I was good, as good as I could be physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally. And that's all I could really do. And so I think you get into that, that mode because that's how you kind of have to do to survive in there. And so coming back and I think for us, listen, it was such a blessing to be able to come out and have a full unconditional pardon.

[Todd Chrisley]

Right.

[Julie Chrisley]

So we didn't have to go.

[Todd Chrisley]

Thank you, President Trump.

[Julie Chrisley]

Absolutely. We didn't have to go like to a halfway house. So we don't have to answer to a probation officer. You know, we're not lim as to where we can go and how we can move. So I think we were thrown right back into the real world, which again causes me to something else that I really want to advocate for is there needs to be. For people that really need help, there needs to be that transition period to give people a chance to re acclimate back into society.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, I agree, but that's what the Bureau of Prisons calls a halfway house.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

Your acclimation.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

That's not going to work.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

I believe that getting someone to where they can acclimate back to the day, the normal day to day structure of life, there does need to be a certain level of mental health component.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

To where someone can reach out to a therapist or to where they can talk to someone and say, well, this just happened today. You know, the kids were doing this and. And that's not the way I did it before I left. Well, the kids lives kept moving.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

Your life stopped.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

So you're still in the same place today. Five years. Five years that you were when you came in. Right there. Now it's the same thing with technology, with a phone or with a computer or, you know, the way you order your food now or when you go into a restaurant, you have to scan a code, you don't get a paper menu anymore. You know, life keeps moving. People that are incarcerated's life stays stuck on the day that they turn themselves in.

[Julie Chrisley]

That's so true. It is so true. And I am seeing that, you know, every day. I mean, I can tell you that, you know, when I first got home, it was really hard, like emotionally, it was a lot. It was like an emotional overload for me.

[Todd Chrisley]

I think I was so ready for that because I. This is how sick I am. I mean, I do need to be in therapy, clearly, because I could not Wait to get back to the dysfunction.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And I think that because, you know, you, you know, in the Bureau of prisons, you get 300 minutes a month. You got 300 minutes a month.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

Me, I was able to secure more than that.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right. And so I didn't. So 300.

[Todd Chrisley]

She's a role follow.

[Julie Chrisley]

300 minutes a month is 10 minutes a day, you know, and that is not 10 minutes per child or 10 minutes for my mom and your mom and kid. It's just 10 minutes.

[Todd Chrisley]

Right.

[Julie Chrisley]

So there's very little that you can actually do and accomplish in 10 minutes a day.

[Todd Chrisley]

Right.

[Julie Chrisley]

And so you do get somewhat removed from life because of that. I'm not somewhat. You get a lot removed from life.

[Todd Chrisley]

You know, See, I think for me and you and Savannah spoke about this, that she feels like that I bounced back much quicker than you did, that I've been able to jump right back in. And you have been kind of like testing the waters a little bit. I think for me, my mindset was I was never in prison.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

I was just in a shitty hotel and I did not allow prison to get into me. I did not start thinking about prison.

[Julie Chrisley]

To get into me. But I did live a certain way because mentally I felt like I had to. Like, I couldn't live every day like I was going home because that was too much for me. It was too emotionally draining. But that think about every day.

[Todd Chrisley]

But don't you think that's very consistent with the way you've always been in our marriage? I mean, you've never. I've always been. The glass is always running over.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes. Yours has always been the realest.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, I don't know that you say.

[Julie Chrisley]

The glass half empty, but I say I've always been the realest. I've always been.

[Todd Chrisley]

I don't just. I don't just say that. Everyone. Everyone says you are glass half empty.

[Julie Chrisley]

No, it's not though. It's that I am a realist. You are this bigger than life dreamer. And you just see, okay, I want this and whatever. And I'm the one that's like, okay, but this is what you have to do to get that. And this is what it cost. And this is what the time involved and this is this, you know, and kind of reel you back in it a little, basically. And I'm not saying really back in because I control you, because that's obviously not the case at all. But I do feel like I bring a certain level of level headedness to the relationship.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, then maybe we should change the Name of the podcast to Dream Snatcher 2.0.

[Julie Chrisley]

No, that's not the case.

[Todd Chrisley]

I just. I just feel like that, you know, you've always been. And I believe that some of it was intentional. I believe you've always been. I don't know that you can do that because you felt like in your mind you was mind screwing me. That if I make him think he can't do it, then he will do.

[Julie Chrisley]

True. That's not true. That is totally not true.

[Todd Chrisley]

You really don't think that?

[Julie Chrisley]

No.

[Todd Chrisley]

Okay, so, prime example. How many times have you ever asked me for something, right?

[Julie Chrisley]

But now I don't even ask you. I learned that early on in our marriage because if I got to the point where I couldn't even say, oh, I like that. Because just because I say, oh, I like that doesn't mean I expect you to go out and buy it and say, I want you internalized that as well. I said, oh, I like that car, or, oh, my God, I love that ring. That doesn't mean I want you to go out and buy it. It just means I like it.

[Todd Chrisley]

But in my interpretation, was you're letting me know that this is what you want.

[Julie Chrisley]

So now I don't do that. I mean, I haven't done that in a long time just because I know that that's how you intern. I mean, we been together a long time, so I kind of know how you operate now.

[Todd Chrisley]

So then you don't want the whips and chains that you were talking about, you know?

[Julie Chrisley]

Really? Why do you always have to go down that road?

[Todd Chrisley]

I just don't want to go buy this stuff if you're not serious about.

[Julie Chrisley]

We're not even.

[Todd Chrisley]

Okay, then. So Savannah and I left and went to Tampa yesterday morning. Yes, 4am folks, I was up.

[Julie Chrisley]

Oh, so was I. Because you know what? In our household, if Todd is up, everybody's up.

[Todd Chrisley]

What is the problem with that? I'm getting up.

[Julie Chrisley]

I didn't do that to you, though. I don't do that to you. If I have to get up, what.

[Todd Chrisley]

Is the last time you get to see me?

[Julie Chrisley]

Okay, well, I'm getting on a plane. It is, but. But you do it every time if you have to get up.

[Todd Chrisley]

Because I want you to view me one more time.

[Julie Chrisley]

Entire marriage, I have been the one to get up before. You get up 99% of the time.

[Todd Chrisley]

And how does that make you feel to know that you have that title?

[Julie Chrisley]

But the 1% of the time that you get up, you're going to always make sure that I'm up.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, because I want to talk to you.

[Julie Chrisley]

No, because you can't stand the thoughts of it. Even though our children went all through school, you never took them to school.

[Todd Chrisley]

I always felt like that was overrated. I was not a carpool dad. I didn't believe in all that. I mean, I felt like that you. Yes, I felt like you should do that because, I mean, all the moms did that.

[Julie Chrisley]

Now there's dads that do it, too.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, those were the dads that were whipped.

[Julie Chrisley]

No, it's not true.

[Todd Chrisley]

We didn't have that going on in our house.

[Julie Chrisley]

Oh, my gosh. That's not true.

[Todd Chrisley]

I don't Kroger, I don't Publix, I don't Whole Foods, and I don't carpool. And jail did not change that for me. I ain't doing none of the above still. But what I'm saying is, is that we went to Tampa to this. To this speaking engagement.

[Julie Chrisley]

Turning Point usa.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes. And it was my first time in front of a crowd that large.

[Julie Chrisley]

Was it? Well, I thought you did something else.

[Todd Chrisley]

No, I did the press conference. That was nothing.

[Julie Chrisley]

Oh, yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

I mean, that was. That was 150 people.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

This was thousands of people.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And I did not have any anxiety about going on stage, but it was my first time in front of that many people again.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And I say God was with us. God's been with us every step of the way throughout this whole process. But God was so prevalent yesterday in doing this, you know, because Savannah took the stage. And I have to say that, you know, since the show took, you know, since we. Chrisy Knows Best aired for the first time, you know, everyone gravitated towards the show. I mean, the show became a huge success. And as the show built, you know, kept building year after year after year, you know, we all kind of fell into our spot.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

You know, who was gonna be the. Who was gonna play this role? Who was gonna play that role? And the world took me as this dad who had zero tolerance for any bullshit and that I was gonna call it out, whether it be with the way you were dressing, your attitude, you know, all of that. And that made me. What? I'm not saying this is what the press has said. A larger than life personality.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

For the first time since we've been on television, I go to this event and I realize that Savannah has stepped into that role.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

Because everyone was gravitating towards her.

[Julie Chrisley]

And I saw that, too, because, remember, when we first got home, I went to the event with her in Dallas. It was a.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes, that's right. I forgot about that.

[Julie Chrisley]

I did that first.

[Todd Chrisley]

And.

[Julie Chrisley]

Absolutely. I mean, she.

[Todd Chrisley]

She's a rock star. She's a rock star.

[Julie Chrisley]

She owns it.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yes. And so many political figures were there, and they were coming up, you know, meeting her and shaking her hand. Great job. And then turning to me and saying, you got a warrior here. You've got a warrior here. And, you know, I had a friend say, well, how does that make you feel? And I says, amazing.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

Because you know how I've always felt about television anyway, you know, after doing it for about three years, I was like, done.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

And you would always say, well, Todd, we have to go another season. You know, we have to get Savannah situated for this for the clothing line. We have to get her situated for the cosmetic line. You know, Chase has got this going on, and I would always fight and say, I don't want to do this anymore. I look back now, and I think, okay, this is this moment right here. It's what Julie was talking about every time when it came up for renewal of contracts. When I said, I don't want to do this anymore. It was for this moment.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

Because to watch her take that stage, she owned it. To see the caliber of people that were coming up to her and wanting to talk to her and exchange contacts and, you know, them saying, we really want you to run for a public office. We really want you to do this. And I'm sitting here thinking about it, and to myself, and I'm like, this is. This is the moment that I've really been searching for. It was never the larger than life personality moment. It was the moment as a dad who gets to see his daughter step into a room that she has shattered the glass ceiling on.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah. Yeah. She owns it.

[Todd Chrisley]

And I was so, so proud of her for that. So proud. Now I say that, you know, to. To coin a phrase from Robert F. Kennedy, you know, when he said, I accompanied Jackie to wherever it was because she was such a huge success, I felt like Robert Kennedy yesterday because I carried Savannah's bag everywhere we went.

[Julie Chrisley]

Was it Robert Kennedy?

[Todd Chrisley]

John. John F. Kennedy. I'm sorry, John F. Kennedy. Thank you for correcting me on that. It's Griselda's leftovers up here is what's going on. But I felt. I mean, I carried her bag everywhere we went. Because everyone, you need to know that when Savannah travels, what is considered a normal handbag is a suitcase. To anyone else who is.

[Julie Chrisley]

Well, she keeps some extra shoes and she had not have an outfit. You never know.

[Todd Chrisley]

She had shoes in there. She had champagne gummies in there. She had. She had everything that you could need. She has a survival kit in her purse.

[Julie Chrisley]

And it weighs 100 pounds.

[Todd Chrisley]

And it weighs 100 pounds. So I had to carry that for her everywhere we went. But going through the airport in Tampa, going through the airport here in Nashville, and how kind of. And courteous and polite everyone was.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

Was such a godfelt moment for me.

[Julie Chrisley]

Because you do have those moments, or I did, you know, thinking, okay, when we were pardoned. Yes. You know, again, thank you, President Trump.

[Todd Chrisley]

Thank you, God. Thank you, President Trump.

[Julie Chrisley]

But you do wonder, like, how people are going to receive you, how people, you know, just how it's going to be. Is it going to be weird? Is there going to be people that. You know? Because there are people who don't agree that we should have gotten a pardon. And that's okay. That's their opinion.

[Todd Chrisley]

I don't know what they wear every day.

[Julie Chrisley]

So you do wonder. But for the most part, I would say people have been really nice. I would say have come up to me and, well, I've had not one negative. Yeah. Can I hug you? You know, we have prayed for you. We have prayed for your entire family. You know, Savannah has killed it.

[Todd Chrisley]

This woman grabbed me off the train yesterday in Tampa and threw her arms around me and kissed me. And she said, I am so happy you're home. You have no. Just weeping. She says, I have wanted this moment. I have prayed for this moment so much.

[Julie Chrisley]

I have had people.

[Todd Chrisley]

And so we have had so many prayer warriors and just.

[Julie Chrisley]

Just people. I've been in the grocery store and, you know, people just come up and not make a big deal, but it's like, I prayed for you guys.

[Todd Chrisley]

I was out at the front. I was at the front gate of the house the other day, and I was talking to the landscapers, and this guy comes by on a truck, and, you know, my back was to the street, and he lets his window down. He goes, chase, tell your dad that I am so happy. And I turned around.

[Julie Chrisley]

Oh, that major day.

[Todd Chrisley]

It did. It. Did I turn because. Oh, crap, Mr. Christ, I thought you were chased. And I said, well, I'll take that as a compliment.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

He said, I just want to tell you how grateful I am for you and your family to be home. This was such a case to begin with, and I am grateful for you being home. Those are the moments that I'm having. And I say that that's God, yeah. And you know. Yes. I mean, if you sit online, you start reading all the leftist comments, you know, it's baffling to me because I don't believe that we, as personalities, I think we contribute to the separation of the red and the blue. If we don't say exactly how we feel in our hearts.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

It's so easy to be antagonized by someone that you give back that negative energy. And that's a commitment that I've made that I'm not doing anymore.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

I'm not going to feed that because I. So many of these people that don't agree with the pardon, it's not that they're against us, Right. Because they're fans of the show.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

They're. They're against the president that gave us the pardon.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And so I look at so many of these brands that want to separate themselves because they're so leaning left, that if they were to, they want to go right, but if they go right, they alienate the left. Folks, Democrats and Republicans alike use toilet paper. We eat red meat. We, you know, we're all doing the same thing. So if, if you are going from a biblical standpoint, that we're all created equal.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right. But some people, it's, it's, it's really crazy. I mean, you had it happen to.

[Todd Chrisley]

You with a landscape, with a landscaper here.

[Julie Chrisley]

I mean, that's crazy to me.

[Todd Chrisley]

Who said, Mr. Christy, I think you would be served with. I'd left a message about, you know, coming and doing some landscape work for us to get the gardens and stuff in shape.

[Julie Chrisley]

And a landscaper that worked with us before.

[Todd Chrisley]

Yep. And he called back and, and said, I think that you would be better served with someone who leans more in your political, in your political leanings or whatever. And I said, well, I thank you very much for acknowledging that. You have a blessed day.

[Julie Chrisley]

But how crazy is that?

[Todd Chrisley]

Like that.

[Julie Chrisley]

I would never turn away business right now. I have been in real estate. I've been a real estate broker for many years. First of all, I'm not going to ask you what your affiliation is. I'm not going to ask, are you a Democrat?

[Todd Chrisley]

You're out here in a bar or in a restaurant and you meet a hot chick, the first thing that you're looking at is not what her voting.

[Julie Chrisley]

Registration is, but more not even that. I'm not concerned with that. But I'm out here trying to make money. I'm not going to. I don't care who you vote for.

[Todd Chrisley]

I just feel Like, I think it's just crazy.

[Julie Chrisley]

That's crazy to me that I would say, I'm sorry, I don't want to take your money because you voted because you're a Republican or because you're a Democrat. That's crazy to me.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, I think that, you know, because you and I don't agree on everything. No, I mean, we have. We agree on the majority of things, but we don't agree on everything.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And that has never even crossed my mind that because we don't agree on. On this, that maybe this is the end of our marriage or that end of a friendship.

[Julie Chrisley]

Some of my dearest, dearest friends in this world are Democrats, and I love them with my heart and soul. I trust my children with them.

[Todd Chrisley]

I.

[Julie Chrisley]

Whatever. I would never think about not being friends with them because of their political affiliation.

[Todd Chrisley]

That's right.

[Julie Chrisley]

I respect them. I respect their views. And as I've said to my kids. And if everybody in your circle thinks and believes the same, you're in the wrong circle.

[Todd Chrisley]

Absolutely.

[Julie Chrisley]

Like I said this, if you're the smartest person in the circle, you're in the wrong circle. If you're the richest person in the circle, you're in the wrong circle. But I feel that way. Like, what makes us who we are as. As a country is the fact that we are all different.

[Todd Chrisley]

That's right.

[Julie Chrisley]

That we bring different things to the table. And I love to hear. I love to hear someone who. Who has a different perspective than me, like, tell me there may be something that I take from that conversation that makes me think a little different sometimes.

[Todd Chrisley]

And it makes you better.

[Julie Chrisley]

We all get, like, in our own little tunnel vision where we just see things exactly the way we want to see them, and I don't ever want to be that way.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, you know, I think that. And I agree with exactly what you said at Turning Point yesterday. Savannah made a statement that she knows what the Bible says and that she does not believe that we, meaning people that are in the political arena, should be determining whether or not you can love this person or this person or that or whatever.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

She. She is a staunch Republican. We all are. But at the end of the day, Savannah's beliefs are. And she's very clear on that, that love who you love, be respectful about who you love, and do not allow the way that you love to infringe upon other people's beliefs.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And I thought about that, and I thought, okay, all right. Because that gave me something else to think about.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right, Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And that was a Trigger moment for me.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right. Because I agree with her on that.

[Todd Chrisley]

Right.

[Julie Chrisley]

I really do.

[Todd Chrisley]

I believe. Love who you love. And. And. But at the end of the day, I think politics should be solely about the running of the American country, the United States.

[Julie Chrisley]

It should be.

[Todd Chrisley]

And we should not be. We should not be stepping our toe over into, you can't be with this person, you can't be with that person, or this person's not allowed to be here. As I said yesterday, I don't believe you should be in this country illegally.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

There are processes that are in place that you should have to follow. We, as a people of the United States of America, we are supposed to be. We have the Statue of Liberty, open arms, welcoming you to our country for a better life. And I believe that we owe that to any person coming from another country that's. That's fleeing a nation of oppression and apartheid and abuse. But you have to do it the right way.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

Because then we want you to be here because we want to wrap our arms around you, or we should, as a country and as a whole of one people. Because at the end of the day, no matter what continent you're on, we are all of one people. We are all God's children. And so the whole thing with the deportation and all that, that was brought up yesterday. If you are not here legally, then you should not be here.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

But we also, as. As people of the United States of America, we also have to be humane about how we do things, too.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes. Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

And we also have to. I know what it's like, and I.

[Julie Chrisley]

Think it's always this, like, constant push and pull. It's always this slippery because someone always.

[Todd Chrisley]

Wants to be right and someone has to be wrong.

[Julie Chrisley]

And someone always wants to be either all the way over here or all the way over here. And not really like downtaking in the middle, but don't.

[Todd Chrisley]

But we've talked about this with so many people in the political arena. I do believe that our country is more down the middle. I believe we have more down the middle than we do hard times, but.

[Julie Chrisley]

We have more down the middle. But people won't. Won't be vocal about it because of.

[Todd Chrisley]

Fear of being ostracized for the fear of being cut off from contracts. And the cancel culture. Exactly.

[Julie Chrisley]

It still exists to a certain degree. It's transitioned the cancel culture from what it was a few years ago even, but it's still there. It's still very prevalent.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, you know, I was told last week that one of the brands that did A lot of business with us because of the pardon. Will not do business with us.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

And I laughed and I said, now think about this. I said, we brought them tens of millions of dollars, but they're willing to walk away from that because they hate President Trump. That.

[Julie Chrisley]

That's crazy. That's crazy because I'm gonna tell you right now, I never hated the president to cut my check.

[Todd Chrisley]

Listen, I don't even hate my ex wife, and I do hate her, but I don't even hate her enough for her to cut into my check.

[Julie Chrisley]

No, I'm not doing that. That's. That's just crazy to me. Maybe. I don't know. It is. It is very.

[Todd Chrisley]

It's insane. It's insane.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, I want to kind of get into. Because there's so many questions that I'm getting on social media and on my Instagram about how do you feel coming home? And Nick is not there. So I want to kind of save that for the next one because I think it's going to take a lot more time on that topic.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

Let's talk a little bit about some of the things that are in the tabloids now. Some of the things that bother you. What are some of those topics?

[Julie Chrisley]

They don't bother you?

[Todd Chrisley]

Not really bother you, but like, when you.

[Julie Chrisley]

You know me, I have never been affected. I'm not one to, like, delve into this black hole of comments of all that. I've never done that since day one with the show. You know that out of everybody in the family, I've never been one to do that. I know who I am. I know what I believe. I know what I'm about. I know that I'm a good person. And that's what is what it is. Now, was there a horrible picture that came out of me? Yeah. But you know what? The way I flip that is look at me now, right? I look. Now people think I look even better because that horrible picture was out there to begin.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, you said. Listen, I will say you set the bar low. You had to go nowhere but up. You had to go nowhere.

[Julie Chrisley]

That wasn't very nice.

[Todd Chrisley]

I'm just trying. Listen, I'm just trying to be honest. That's what we have here. Chris Confessions 2.0. I mean, I'm not gonna lie. When I first saw you, when I got out of that car, I started thinking about going back. But then I thought, let me embrace this. This is a moment.

[Julie Chrisley]

Are you kidding me right now?

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, I mean, it was a rough moment. It was a rough moment because I'd never seen you dark in my life, Judy. 30 years, I've never seen you with dark hair.

[Julie Chrisley]

Well, I know that, Todd, but I didn't have any choice. I mean, I didn't have a choice.

[Todd Chrisley]

I understand. I mean, I had a nasty ass warden Sherry Salisbury the whole time, but I mean, she even came to me and said, it's in the press that you're. That you're concerned about your gray hair. I can get you hair color. I'm like, no, I'm good. But you did partake in hair color.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah, so I did. So for people who were asking about that picture when I went to prison, my hair was blonde, but it had a lot of lowlights in it. Tyler had put a lot of lowlights in my hair before I self surrendered. And then we actually had a girl that was there at the prison when I got there. Her name was Melissa. She worked in the salon and she was really good. And she did highlights for me. I mean, and they looked. When I tell you, they look so good. It looked like I'd been to a salon on the outside.

[Todd Chrisley]

Let me guess, she's one of the first people that got out.

[Julie Chrisley]

And then she left. I got there in January, right? January 23rd. She left in March. So she did my hair one time before she left. So then I was like, what am I going to do? Well, you have box hair color. Even though there is a quote unquote salon, it is a box hair color that you buy in the commissary and then you get your hair done. So I started growing out and it was so gray and I was like, oh my God, what am I gonna do? So I just put the brown on my hair to cover up the gray. So I did that for a long time. I did that for probably a year and a half or so maybe. And then like I've said in my mind, I was like, okay, I'm going home in August of 26. So I'm like, you know what? I'm not going to color my hair anymore. I'm just going to let it grow. And I did have a girl there, princess, who cut my hair. So she would keep it trimmed because I'm not going to color my hair anymore. Then by the time I leave, all this color will be growing off my hair and it'll make it easier for Tyler to fix it. And in my mind, that's what I was gonna do. I was just letting it grow. And everybody, even my friends there were like, you need to do something with your Hair. I was like, I don't care. I'm letting it grow out so that when I get home.

[Todd Chrisley]

So even these chicks in prison acknowledge you need to do something with that situation.

[Julie Chrisley]

Well, because everybody thought I should be blonde, but it was really hard to be good blonde in prison. And especially when you have gray, like what I have. So I needed to put color on my ha. And then a highlight. Well, that was a little too much for prison. Like, that was. You're asking a lot from a box hair color. So that's why it was that color.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, listen, I'm glad.

[Julie Chrisley]

And then I wasn't going out. I wasn't gonna go out. Savannah's the one. Mama, I want you to go to this butcher.

[Todd Chrisley]

Griselda, I want you to go to.

[Julie Chrisley]

The butcher with me. So what did I do? I went with her. And she's like, they're not gonna. I guess she thinks they weren't concerned about me, so they probably weren't gonna get a. A picture of me. Well, we all know they did. And I admit I look crazy. But now, see, people think when they see me, oh my God, you look so good. And I thinking, yeah, because you saw that picture of me.

[Todd Chrisley]

We were laying in bed. And I'm going to try to find this video for you folks, and I hope that we'll be able to get it on this episode. There was a video the other night that we were laying in bed with this woman narrating and she had the picture of me at the top and then you below.

[Julie Chrisley]

No, we're not putting that out there.

[Todd Chrisley]

I'm going to put that at the end. It was the funniest servant. It was.

[Julie Chrisley]

No, you're self serving. Because they're like, todd Chrisley leaves prison and he looks like he's been to a spa. Julie Chrisley leaves prison and she looks tired and haggard.

[Todd Chrisley]

This was the funniest clip. She has this picture of me at the top and coming out of prison. Then she has Julie and she goes, I am so glad the Chrisleys are home, but can we just take a moment? And she goes, this Todd Chrisley looks like he came out of a spa and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He's got the glow up. And this Julie had the real prison sentence. She had to Shawshank.

[Julie Chrisley]

See, you would want that. You would want that because it's so self serving to you.

[Todd Chrisley]

But Julie, you were laying there, you were like, I don't give a. But it was the funniest thing.

[Julie Chrisley]

No, it's not funny, but it is what it is. But you know what? Be people something to talk about.

[Todd Chrisley]

Exactly. But my whole point is, is that it's tabloid, it's social media and that.

[Julie Chrisley]

And you're watching it.

[Todd Chrisley]

If you think you're hurting my feelings, you're not. Because some of the shit y' all say is actually funny. And I love good humor. So when she called out that you had the Shawshank version, I thought that was funny and busted out laughing.

[Julie Chrisley]

There were days I felt like I was in Shawshank. So, yeah, probably true. When it was this time of the year, July of 23 of 24, I probably felt like I was Shawshank because it was 120 degrees in there and you couldn't get comfortable.

[Todd Chrisley]

I'm the one who literally was like, feel like that. I was Andy Dufresne without the scene because I was plotting to take the warden down the whole time that I was there.

[Julie Chrisley]

Oh my God.

[Todd Chrisley]

So Andy took the warden down in Shawshank. I took Sherry Salisbury down at FPC Pensacola. At any rate, let's just touch on one more thing and then we'll call it a day for this episode. People have reported that you and I are divorcing.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

How does that make you feel?

[Julie Chrisley]

Again? It does not.

[Todd Chrisley]

I know it doesn't affect you.

[Julie Chrisley]

I can honestly tell you I'm like, whatever, because that is so not true. There is no truth whatsoever to that. And like, okay, if that's what you think is going to sell something. But.

[Todd Chrisley]

But I think that people really like.

[Julie Chrisley]

I do is a healer, a revealer. And so when you go, okay, we're 30 years in now, 31 since we've been together. Okay, so five years from now, 10 years from now, whatever, we're still going to be together. So guess what? I don't. I don't really care. I mean, it doesn't. I don't know. I just. I don't even think about it.

[Todd Chrisley]

I don't care what people say.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah, I know it did bother you at the beginning.

[Todd Chrisley]

It did. Because that you know how I feel about our marriage and our children.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes.

[Todd Chrisley]

So those are really the only two hot buttons you have with me, right? You calling me gay. You're saying that, you know, I have had a million boyfriends in prison. This. And that's low hanging fruit, right? You're grabbing at something that has never happened, that has never been alleged to have happened except for that one piece of shit that, you know, stole, robbed us blind. So that doesn't bother me. But when you come at what I. What is most sacred to me, which is my marriage and my children, then I will. You will walk over, but you will crawl back. So there's still old tide down in here. There's enough old tide down in here that I will drag you. And if that doesn't work, I will sue you. If you put out a false story and you're sitting here because you're not a journalist, you're a blogger, you don't have journalistic privilege.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

That's already been established in the lawsuit that we filed against the other journalists that had to retract the things that they had said.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

So if you put something out there about me and my family, we will sue you. We're going to sue you. So I think that for me, that did that was because it hit at the core of the thing I hold most sacred.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

You know, there was a story that came out last week. Todd and Chrisley, Todd and Julia Chrisley, frantic over all their legal expenses. We don't owe any legal expenses. All of our legal bills were paid as we went along.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

But see, that is. That's them making up stories to get a click because our name pays their power bill. So I don't care about that. We owe no one. So we don't have to worry about that. But I will tell you, we owe no one. But there are many that owe us, and we're coming after you.

[Julie Chrisley]

The one thing that I want to talk about that was in the tabloids was they said that I faked my breast cancer.

[Todd Chrisley]

I smell that.

[Julie Chrisley]

And that is the craziest thing, because what people don't realize is I was diagnosed with breast cancer March of 2012.

[Todd Chrisley]

At 39 years old.

[Julie Chrisley]

This was before this happened. We found out that this was going on when it really came to a head was in July or August, was in July of 2012, when we. When your father had passed away and we. We were in South Carolina taking care of the arrangements, was the very first phone. One of the very first phone calls that we got. I had already been diagnosed with breast cancer. I'd already. I was. I was completing my treatment at that time. But the. But the thing is that someone would think that I would ever fake a breast cancer diagnosis. I have had had the pleasure of meeting so many amazing, wonderful women who have fought the breast cancer fight. And that, to me, is so disrespectful that people would say a tap. Some. A tabloid would say that I had. And I don't even know what they thought. I obviously it did. If that's something I was going to do, it didn't help because I went to prison. But I went to prison 11 years later. So it had. It just. It didn't even make sense.

[Todd Chrisley]

But listen, it's not about that. Nothing that they write, right?

[Julie Chrisley]

I think they were. I think they were. And I don't know if maybe this. I remember when we were first sentenced and designated, you know, I was designated by the Bureau of Prisons to go to Marianna in Florida. And then at the last minute, they changed it to Lexington. And the tabloids, I remember when that happened, they thought that I was going to a medical facility. Well, FMC Lexington is Federal Medical center, but that's for the men, the women, the camp. The satellite camp is not a medical facility. It is a working camp. And I think people don't understand that. Even judges don't understand it because they send women to that camp all the time that have serious medical issues. And they tell them, well, I'm going to send you to Lexington so that you can get the help that you need. It's not a medical facility for women. So I remember back in the day, there was like a couple of articles about that. Was, you know, something wrong with me or was I saying something was wrong with me? Again, to get there.

[Todd Chrisley]

But. Again, but it was. It was just to sell clicks, right?

[Julie Chrisley]

But I would never.

[Todd Chrisley]

Why would you even. Why would you even care saying, I would never?

[Julie Chrisley]

Right?

[Todd Chrisley]

I don't give a shit.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, you know, it's a lie.

[Julie Chrisley]

I have said. I have. I have witnessed. I had a dear friend who, Lisa, who lost her battle with breast cancer. We were diagnosed around the same time. And I just find it so irreverent and I find it so disrespectful.

[Todd Chrisley]

But it's a tabloid blogger, not a journalist. This is somebody who.

[Julie Chrisley]

Literally something that I would ever.

[Todd Chrisley]

I would rather say that I am a convicted felon than to say that I am a journalist. In today's. In today's journalistic poll for most of.

[Julie Chrisley]

Them, that's for sure.

[Todd Chrisley]

I mean, I literally, it's. You've got a handful of people that still adhere to the journalistic code of making sure you verify your sources, making sure that you know that what you're getting ready to report is accurate and factual. And then those individuals will come back and say, say, my bad, I got this wrong.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right?

[Todd Chrisley]

Let me. Let me correct this.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right?

[Todd Chrisley]

But now there's such a free range of people that's allowed to say whatever they want, and they have no consequence. You will have a consequence with us. So, you know, I was on the phone with attorneys last week, as you know, going after three different individuals for this, for the things that they have reported. So if you report something about us, you better make sure that it's factual. You better make sure that it's true. Because journalistic privilege you do not have. So with that being said, I hope that we've addressed some of those and as they come up, we'll continue to address them as they come up. But to end that, how are you today after being home now for what? How many?

[Julie Chrisley]

May.

[Todd Chrisley]

May 28th is when we came home May 28th.

[Julie Chrisley]

So not quite two months yet.

[Todd Chrisley]

So how do you feel after almost two months?

[Julie Chrisley]

Every day gets better, right? Every gets a little bit better. And as I said, I talked to several women who I was in prison with, and they said, you know, Julie, it took me six months, it took me a year to even feel like I was even back, even a tiny bit of what I was before I went. So I'm happy. I'm happy with the progress that I feel like I'm making. I'm continuing to make every day. Yeah. So. And I'm just grateful.

[Todd Chrisley]

Oh, God. There is one tabloid story that I want to talk about that's during the press conference. I had stated that we are doing a hotel.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

And that it's going to be near Charleston, South Carolina.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

Well, there was a story, I guess Patricia Altschul made a comment. She was asked about her thoughts about the Chris's moving to Charleston, South Carolina.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

And she said, well, there goes the neighborhood.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

Now, you know, I've never had an issue with. Patricia is on. What is Southern charm. She's on Southern charm. You know, I've always held her in high regard. I always thought she was a classy lady.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

This is a woman that's in her 80s, you know, like mom. She could be my mother.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yeah.

[Todd Chrisley]

And she made that statement. And I got, you know, I got so many people messaging me, you know, with the story. And can you believe she said that this. I'm going to go back and do this. And I said, please don't.

[Julie Chrisley]

Right.

[Todd Chrisley]

Please don't go back on this old lady. I mean, do not do that. I said, because at the end of the day, she's old. She's already, according to the tabloids, transferred her assets over to her son. I guess she's getting ready for death because they ain't getting our until the day I die. But that was a little shocking. Not that Patricia is going to keep me out of Charleston, South Carolina. Patricia should know that you and I are born and reared in Charleston. I mean, in South Carolina, we are. We're South Carolinians, not Charleston. We were born.

[Julie Chrisley]

We are South Carolinas.

[Todd Chrisley]

And she is not. And she doesn't need to worry about how I make my money, because at this age, I mean, I could end up marrying someone like Patricia and take her money, because that's kind of what she did and kind of how she made her money. So at the end of the day, I don't dislike her. I mean, she's just playing a role that's been in the book of securing wealth since the beginning of time. You know, a younger woman marries an older man, he dies, she gets the money. So maybe I'll become Patricia's Walker. Maybe I'll be the man that actually. Maybe her son has to worry about me inheriting her money. So with that being said, that story is now out there, too. So on that note, we'll end it with good luck. God bless from all of our homes to yours.

[Julie Chrisley]

Yes. And don't forget to subscribe wherever you get your podcast. Chrisley Confession 2.0.