Everyone deals with legal and familial struggles in different ways. When Savannah Chrisley’s parents, for example, were sentenced to several years in prison for serious fraud charges, she chose to deal with that by starting a podcast about it.
On the most recent episode of Unlocked With Savannah Chrisley, the 25-year-old detailed what it was like visiting her father, Todd Chrisley, in prison for the first time.
Savannah revealed her shock at finding her father with graying hair — since the reality TV personality typically dyed his hair blond before he was sent to prison.
"I will say it's really weird seeing him with gray hair,” she told her guest. “Like, really weird," she added, laughing.
"He's definitely used some color over the years, and now seeing him with gray hair. I'm like, 'Oh my gosh!'"
Ever since their parents' arrests, Savannah and her sister Lindsie have talked a lot about their religion and have posted many Bible quotes in reference to the events.
"I've never felt the presence of Jesus more than I have in that visiting room," she said on the podcast.
And although Todd and Julie Chrisley face a combined 19 years in prison, Savannah is still hopeful about their future. She also believes that her parents went to prison to so that they could “make a difference.”
"Even visiting my dad, like, I know I have so much hope and so much restored strength that I’m like, 'This isn't the end,'" she said. "And I know that they're going through what they're going through for us to make a difference, for us to make a change. Because whether this appeal works or not, they're still coming out with a story."
Savannah also discussed her mother’s prison conditions, saying that the service dogs at the facility have air conditioning, but her mother does not.
"My mom's in a facility that has no air, but yet, there are service dogs for the prison that are in a heated and cooled building because it's inhumane for them not to have air," she claimed.
In an episode she released earlier this year, Savannah revealed she's been struggling with the new responsibility of raising her siblings on her own.
"The other night, I just had a full-on breakdown," Savannah recalled. "I was trying to find Chloe proper clothes to go and visit my parents and find her hair stuff. I just sat down on the floor and just started crying."
"I am not my mother," she said. "How am I going to do this? I don't feel that I am worthy or capable enough of doing the job that she's done for all her life."
