Savannah Chrisley bought emotional whereas giving followers an replace on her mother Julie Chrisley‘s life in jail. On the Tuesday, January 28, episode of her Unlocked podcast, she learn a letter she obtained from Julie concerning the “traumatic” expertise of being transferred from the Federal Medical Heart in Kentucky to the Grady County jail in Oklahoma, the place she was held throughout her resentencing trial in September 2024.
Whereas studying the four-page recollection, Savannah was noticeably choked up and even needed to pause at some components to compose herself. “I’ll always remember the times of transit,” she admitted after ending the letter. “I knew once I didn’t hear from her that she was in all probability in transit as a result of we made it a degree … she known as me each morning, a number of instances a day. So once I didn’t hear from her, I knew she was someplace being transported.”
The Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Check star additionally identified how costly it’s been to maintain involved together with her dad and mom amid their jail sentences for tax evasion and financial institution fraud. Savannah stated she’s spent about $500 simply to speak with Julie and her dad, Todd Chrisley.
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Julie had requested to attend her resentencing trial by way of Zoom after listening to horror tales concerning the Oklahoma facility, however her request was denied by a choose. As an alternative, she needed to present up in individual to the “most disgusting place” she’d ever seen, in accordance with the letter.
Savannah additionally recalled the second she lastly heard from her mother as soon as Julie had been transported again to the Kentucky jail. “She known as me and she or he might barely say whats up. She was sobbing,” Savannah shared. “And to listen to her — all through this entire course of, she has by no means cried to me on the telephone — and this was once I heard her simply fully damaged, and it was so troublesome to listen to the harm in her voice and to know the trauma that she had skilled.”
After Todd and Julie obtained their responsible verdicts in 2022, he was sentenced to 12 years in jail, whereas she obtained seven years behind bars. Nonetheless, in June 2024, a authorized error was present in the best way Julie’s sentence was calculated. The case was resentenced, however the choose upheld the unique seven-year resolution.
Savannah turned the authorized guardian of Todd and Julie’s then-minor son Grayson and niece Chloe after they went to jail.