Savannah Chrisley gets candid about her past spending habits — and how her family’s legal upheaval changed her whole outlook on it.
In an interview with Party tonight26-year-old woman Chrisley knows best The alum said, “I’m not going to worry about it, I’ve spent my money like it’s never going to go away.”
Admitting she “never thought it would go away,” Savannah began making changes to her lifestyle after her parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, were convicted in November 2022 on fraud charges.
“It took a lot of things away,” she recalled. “For about a year, everything about work disappeared.”
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Due to her parents’ situation, she became the guardian of her younger siblings Grayson and Chloe. (Chloe, 10, is the biological daughter of Savannah’s oldest brother Kyle, but Todd, 54, and Julie, 50, later became her legal guardians amid their son’s addiction problems.)
“It’s definitely testing me, but helping out as an extra parent to my siblings has been the hardest but most rewarding job I’ll ever have,” she said. “I come there every day and I want to make a better life for these two kids. It’s going to be touched.”
(LR) Julie Chrisley, Savnnah Chrisley and Todd Chrisley are pictured posing together.
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Taking on this new role as a caregiver also allowed Savannah to realize that “when you’re in a single-income household, you do whatever you have to do.”
“I feel like God never gives you more than you can handle,” he said Unlocked added podcast host. “I feel like what’s happening now is exactly what I needed to not be this spoiled, with any right, because what’s happening now is testing me for who I am as a person.”
Todd and Julie checked into jail on January 17th. Although they were originally slated to serve a combined 19 years behind bars, the longtime couple had their sentences reduced on Friday.
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The Chrisley family is featured in a promotional video for their former USA Network reality series, “Chrisley Knows Best.” Dennis Leupold/USA Network/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty
Todd will now be released from Pensacola Federal Prison in 10 years on January 22, 2033. Meanwhile, Julie’s sentence has been reduced to 5 years as she will now be released from Lexington Federal Medical Center on October 19, 2028.
Meanwhile, Todd and Julie are still in the process of appealing their case. Chrisley family attorney Jay Surgent said recently Party tonight that Savannah plans to pay her parents’ $17 million settlement herself.
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“I think Savannah, while it’s not her job to make restitution on behalf of her parents, has every intention of doing so,” Surgent said. “I’ve spoken to her several times about this. She has every intention of doing everything she can to recover compensation on behalf of her parents from the outside.”
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And while this is still an “unusual” approach, Surgent said Savannah “happens to be very creative, has a unique talent and is a great interviewer.”
“He will do well in that goal,” he added, “as far as making money and being able to help with restitution.”
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