Julie Chrisley is opening up about how much she misses her husband Todd after they both were convicted of fraud. The couple, mostly known for their reality TV series “Chrisley Knows Best,” were found guilty in 2022 of conspiring to defraud banks and the IRS out of millions of dollars.
The couple’s daughter Savannah Chrisley spoke on their podcast to share written letters from her mom who is behind bars. In the letters, Julie opens up about being separated from her children and husband. “I miss Todd so much that it hurts. I’ve never gone this long without talking to him,” Julie Chrisley wrote. While reading the letter their daughter Savannah referred to the letters as heartbreaking. “I can just feel her hurt through these messages and to just think about how different life is now, a year, almost a year and a half later, and to just think that like, sure, there’s some funny things in here, mom’s trying to make jokes, trying to make light of it, but like this is her life now. And it’s so different than obviously what it was before, in just the emotional aspect of it of having to miss your family so much,” Savannah Chrisley said.
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In another letter, Julie shared how she’s still longing to see her husband. “It was great seeing the kids and Mom and Dad this week, but I miss Todd so bad,” she wrote. “I miss his voice. I miss being able to lay in bed beside each other. I miss my person. I called Chase in the middle of the afternoon and gosh, I worry about my kids so much. I only talked to him for a minute and then followed it up with an email.”
We haven’t heard from Julie since she reported to Prison and in January 2023 People Magazine released an article about the first letter that she wrote once getting to prison. “I knew my life was about to change forever. My husband and I stood in our bedroom right in front of our prayer bench and said our goodbyes. We hugged, we kissed and we prayed before he walked out the door heading to Pensacola, Florida with Savannah, Grayson, and Nick,” she wrote.
In that same letter, Julie wrote “This would be the last time I would speak to my husband face to face. We talked on the phone during his ride to Pensacola, I called one last time before I self-surrendered to the camp in Lexington.”
As previously reported, The Chrisleys are serving a combined 15 years in prison. At first, they were sentenced to 19 years but sentences were reduced in September 2023.