Savannah Chrisley says there is a misconception among fans about her finances.
On the September 10th episode of her podcast, UnlockedChrisley, 27, spoke about the difficulties she faced following her parents’ prison sentence.
“People comment and they’ll say, like, ‘Oh, I feel so sorry for you, you’re living off your mom and dad’s stolen money,'” she told a group of friends in the episode. “And ‘You’re rich, it’s easy, stop acting like it’s so hard’.”
Savannah’s father, Todd, 55, was sentenced to 12 years in prison and 16 months’ probation, while her mother, Julie, 51, was sentenced to seven years in prison and 16 months’ probation in November 2022, after the couple were sentenced to guilty of bank fraud and tax evasion in June of that year.
Julie, Savannah and Todd Chrisley.
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“I struggled,” Savannah continued. “I know how it feels to not know how you’re going to pay your bills that month. Because I’m left with three mortgages, lawyers and kids.”
Savannah also became the guardian of two children: her brother Grayson Chrisley (17) and Chloe Chrisley (11). Chloe is the daughter of Kyle Chrisley, Todd’s second child with ex-wife Teresa Terry, and was under the custody of Todd and Julie.
The family became famous on USA Network Chrisley knows bestand from 2019 to 2022, Savannah and her brother Chase starred in the spinoff Growing up Chrisley.
While Savannah previously said a new Chrisley reality series is in the works, she noted on her podcast that the lack of income from her TV projects has contributed to her financial woes. And she started a career in real estate, but as a friend pointed out, the work was time-consuming.
“I just got into real estate and, like, your first year, you’re pretty much, you know, like, working for every job you get,” Savannah said. “And that’s the thing, it’s like people have this misconception that I’m sitting on millions of dollars and I say, ‘If you know where it is, please walk me to it. I’d like to see that.’”
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“But I know what it’s like to fight. I used to not have to go to the store and look – I would just buy whatever,” she continued. “I was at a point where I had to say no to my kids. And I put their needs before my own. I don’t know how I did it, but somehow I made it.”
Savannah also claimed that the government “fought for” the 3 percent commission she intended to take on the sale of her parents’ home as a licensed real estate agent until her attorney negotiated the amount down to one-and-a-half percent.
“They wouldn’t let me sell the house if they didn’t get the money,” she said.
In the previous episode Unlocked, Savannah shared how she felt immediately after learning her parents were convicted.
“I didn’t cry the whole way home,” she recalled on the Sept. 3 episode. – I don’t even remember returning home.
“When I got home, I literally walked in the door and collapsed,” she continued, noting that she “couldn’t calm down” and ended up “taking something to, like, calm me down.”
“I couldn’t even function,” she added.
New episodes of Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley podcast drops every Tuesday.
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