ATLANTA — Lindsie Chrisley‘s estrangement from my family remains ongoing.
On the Wednesday, March 19 episode of her Southern Tea podcast, the Chrisley Knows Best alum opened up about the last time she saw her father Todd Chrisley and her step-mother Julie Chrisley as they serve their prison sentences for bank and wire fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy.
“The last time I visited my dad probably was … was it the beginning of last year?” Lindsie, 35, wondered. “I can’t even honestly remember.”
Todd Chrisley (left) and Lindsie Chrisley. (Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images)
[Nanny Faye and I] used to go together when they first went [to prison],” she continued. “It was just like, [a] more comfortable situation for both of us to go when they both of us stay in a hotel together. I have never been to Lexington to visit Julie.”
She added, “I have not seen my dad in quite some time and I have had no contact. And that’s all I’m going to say for that.”
Despite a brief reconciliation in 2022, Lindsie’s relationship with the Chrisley family has been fraught since Todd and Julie reported to serve their sentences at their respective federal prisons in Pensacola, Florida and Lexington, Kentucky in January 2023. Julie was later transferred to Florida’s Federal Correctional Institution Marianna.
Over the last two years, Todd and Julie have tried to appeal their sentences, which was reduced in September 2023 by nearly two years. When the longtime couple presented their case at a public appeals hearing in Georgia on April 19, 2024, Lindsie claimed that her younger sister, Savannah Chrisley, requested she refrain from attending.
Lindsie Chrisley, Savannah Chrisley and Julie Chrisley. (Photo: Evans Vestal Ward/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty)
“My sister privately let the message get to us that she did not want us present at the hearing. And it was shared with me that if we were there, there would be issues and that we would be asked to leave,” Lindsie said on an episode of Southern Tea at the time. “It’s mindblowing to me, the control and manipulation. It very much alarms me and I’m just going to leave it at that.”
Shortly after, Savannah confirmed the claims during an Instagram Stories Q+A, where she revealed that she told Lindsie that “she was not wanted” and their father “did not want her there and that he didn’t care to have a relationship with her.”
“I said all of these things. I am more than happy that I said them and it’s my parents’ appeal. They have the right to say who they want there and who they don’t,” she said, bringing up Lindsie allegedly working with the government to aid in her parent’s conviction.
Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley. (Photo: Kevin Mazur/ACMA2017/Getty)
Lindsie has also previously stated that her current relationship with Savannah is “nothing”, claiming that Savannah has “never privately reached out to me to discuss her apparent issues with me.”
“So, why she has chosen to have a public conversation regarding me at every opportunity she is given, I will truly never understand that,” she said on her Southern Tea podcast in February 2024. “But I hope it gives her whatever she is seeking from doing so.”
By ESTHER KANG/People
