Savannah Chrisley Says Family Needs ‘Intensive Therapy’ ArticlePure

Savannah Chrisley told her grandmother, Nanny Pam, that her family will need “intensive” therapy once her parents, Julie and Todd Chrisley, are released from prison.

Although she reminisced on happier times with her grandmother — mom Julie’s mom, Nanny Pam — the Chrisley Knows Best alum, 27, they also had a frank conversation about overcoming the pain of her parents’ incarceration on the May 13 episode of her podcast Unlocked.

In January 2023, her father, Todd Chrisley, and his wife, Julie Chrisley, reported to prison to serve a combined 19-year sentence, which has since been reduced by nearly two years each.

Todd was originally sentenced to 12 years for fraud and tax evasion charges, and was denied when he attempted to appeal his case in 2024. Although his wife’s appeal was initially granted, a judge later upheld her sentence.

Savannah, who is currently raising younger siblings Grayson, 18, and Chloe, 12 — talked about the family moments her parents are missing, like supporting her through her recent breakup with boyfriend Robert Shiver.

“When Robert and I broke up, when mom was like, ‘I just wanna be there… just through all of it.’ Yeah. And she can’t. She wasn’t at Grayson’s graduation,” Savannah said.

“Grayson going to college,” Nanny Pam, 69, added, referencing how Grayson is headed to the University of Alabama. ”And the sad part about that is you can never get those things back. They’re gone. They’re in the past. And that’s why I think we have to, as a family, pull together, forgive and try to move forward, we’re not promised tomorrow and [there’s] nothing we can do about yesterday, and we can only live for today.” 

“Harvey and I are old,” Nanny Pam said of her husband, Julie’s father, who’s nearly 75 and has heart struggles and other health issues. “We’ve lived over most of our life. I mean, hopefully we got another maybe ten years to go or so, but you never know.“

“I just want my family to be ready when it’s their time because we never know what time when God’s gonna call us home.”

“I agree with that, but I also — we know my viewpoint. Just because you’re my family, if you act a fool, that don’t mean I have to get along with you or be family with you,” Savannah said, pointedly. “Y’all don’t agree with that, but that’s my viewpoint.“

“Well, sometimes you have to love from a distance, Savannah, and if that’s how you can do it right now is love from a distance, then do that,” Nanny Pam said. “But I think when your mom and dad get home that there’s gonna be a coming together of the family.”

“There’s going to be a lot of stuff that happens because when they come home, I have already told them that over the past two and a half years, I’ve figured it out. So if they come home thinking they’re gonna rescue individuals and act like nothing’s happened, then I’m out,” Savannah said, throwing her hands up. “I told them that and mama has said, ‘Well, that’s not happening.’ “

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She added that, when speaking to her mother, “I said, ‘If we’re going to actually all come back together, there needs to be an intensive, week-long therapy that we all go to and hash everything out.’ ” 

“Yeah,” Nanny Pam said, nodding.  

“Because that’s the only way that anything’s gonna be resolved,” Savannah said.