Julie Chrisley made it very clear that her past cancer battle was real.
“The one thing that I wanna talk about that was in the tabloids is they said that I faked my breast cancer, and that is the craziest thing,” Julie, 52, said during the Wednesday, July 23, episode of the “Chrisley Confessions 2.0” podcast. “What people don’t realize is [that] I was diagnosed with breast cancer [in] March of 2012.”
Todd, 56, chimed in, noting that his wife was 39 years old when she was diagnosed.
Julie clarified that she received her cancer diagnosis “before this happened,” seemingly referring to their legal troubles.
“I had already been diagnosed with breast cancer,” she continued. “I was completing my treatment at that time. But the thing is that someone would think that I would ever fake a breast cancer diagnosis. I have had the pleasure of meeting so many amazing, wonderful women who have fought the breast cancer fight.”
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Julie declared that it was “so disrespectful” for anyone to start a rumor about her faking breast cancer. (Julie underwent a double mastectomy and radical hysterectomy before going into remission.)
“Obviously, if that’s something I was gonna do, it didn’t help,” she added. “Because I went to prison. But I went to prison 11 years later. … It didn’t even make sense.”
In 2022, Todd and Julie were convicted of tax evasion, along with bank and wire fraud charges. They were both sentenced to prison and were behind bars for 28 months before being pardoned by President Donald Trump in May. They returned home from their respective prisons that same month.
Todd and Julie’s daughter Savannah also addressed the fake breast cancer claims on her “Unlocked” podcast last month.
“I was getting my coffee across the street this morning and I was looking through social media and I saw to where someone commented that my family was this fraud and we’re terrible human beings, XYZ, and how my mother faked her breast cancer diagnosis,” the 27-year-old said during the June 17 episode. “Apparently, she faked her breast cancer diagnosis to avoid court proceedings, was what this individual said.”
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Savannah noted that she was “dumbfounded” by the accusation — especially because her mother’s diagnosis came years prior.
“They weren’t federally or criminally charged until 2019,” she added. “So, that right there completely debunks your whole theory.”
Savannah concluded, “For someone to make an accusation that my mother lied about having breast cancer at the age of 39, there truly is a special place in hell for you. It’s that simple.”
