Grayson Chrisley says seeing his dad and mom Todd and Julie in jail is 'worse than them dying'

• Grayson Chrisley stated having each his dad and mom in jail was “worse than them dying.”
• His feedback have been made in a brand new episode of his sister Savannah Chrisley’s podcast.
• “They’re right here, however they are not right here,” Grayson, 17, stated. “It is simply time being wasted.”

Grayson Chrisley stated each having each of his dad and mom in jail for financial institution fraud was “worse than them dying.” 

Within the newest episode of “Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley,” his older sister’s podcast, the 17-year-old youngest son of Todd and Julie Chrisley opened up about how he is handled having each of his dad and mom away from house serving jail sentences. Todd and Julie have been convicted of tax and financial institution fraud, amongst different prices, in June 2022. 

The previous actuality tv stars of the cancelled USA Community actuality present “Chrisley Is aware of Finest” started serving their respective sentences in January.

Todd, 54, is serving a 12-year sentence on the Federal Jail Camp Pensacola whereas Julie, 50, is serving a seven-year sentence on the Federal Medical Heart Lexington, a girls’s jail in Kentucky. 

“To me it is worse than them dying,” Grayson stated throughout his look on Savannah’s podcast. “As a result of they’re right here, however they are not right here so it is simply time that is being wasted.”

“In the event that they died, there isn’t any potential approach of you getting extra time with them. So it is over,” he added. ” no time is being wasted.”

Grayson and Savannah, who’re two of Todd and Julie’s 5 youngsters, went on to notice how completely different their views are on the expertise. Whereas Savannah, 25, feels “renewed” by visiting their dad and mom of their respective prisons, Grayson feels “heavier” for it. 

“Do you not attempt to see it from a perspective of like at the least they’re nonetheless right here so that you can hug and say I like you?” Savannah stated.

Grayson stated sure, however that it was the “time restrict” that he struggled with, in addition to feeling like he needed to do the visits each single weekend.

“It is robust so that you can course of,” Savannah stated, including that she could not “think about” what it has been like for Grayson and 10-year-old Chloe Chrisley, the daughter of Todd’s eldest son whom the couple had adopted. Since their dad and mom incarceration, Savannah’s been the first caretaker of Grayson and Chloe.

“I understand how I really feel, I could not think about how y’all really feel as two children,” she stated. 

Grayson added that he did not know if it was potential for him to not really feel aggrieved by the state of affairs that the household is in. “Do not sit right here and lie and say you are not bitter,” he advised Savannah. “There’s all the time going to be part of you that’s bitter.”

Todd and Julie authorized woes started once they have been first indicted by a Georgia grand jury in 2019 on a number of prices associated to fraud.

In the course of the course of the next trial, prosecutors discovered that the couple used loans to purchase costly automobiles, take extravagant journeys, and dwell a life-style they could not afford, whereas additionally hiding cash from the IRS to keep away from paying taxes. 

“The Chrisleys have constructed an empire based mostly on the lie that their wealth got here from dedication and exhausting work,” prosecutors stated in a sentencing memo in November 2022.

“The jury’s unanimous verdict units the document straight: Todd and Julie Chrisley are profession swindlers who’ve made a dwelling by leaping from one fraud scheme to a different, mendacity to banks, stiffing distributors, and evading taxes at each nook.”