Todd Chrisley has admitted he was not a fan of daughter Savannah airing their family’s dirty laundry on TV.
Speaking on the Wednesday, October 1 episode of the “Chrisley Confessions 2.0.” podcast, Todd said he would have preferred the drama between Savannah her grandfather, Harvey Hughes, to stay private.
“Well, I look at it from the perspective of and, and you know, when I say this, you’re going to know that, because I’ve already said it, I feel like some situation less is more, right?” Todd, 56, told his wife Julie, 52.
He added, “And you know that I was not in favor once I found out that this had been aired on, and she had said some of the things she’d said.”
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Todd explained that he thought Savannah, 28, should have dealt with her issues with her grandfather, who is Julie’s father, off-air, out of respect for her mother.
“If you want to call him out for, you know, not being there for you and not being the grandfather that he should have been then, that should have been done off air but it wasn’t my choice,” he continued. “I don’t get to make it. I don’t get to feel hurt. I don’t know how she feels, I know how she says that she feels… that everything was done for Chase, nothing was done for her, right?”
While he would have preferred his family members to be more discreet when butting heads, Todd did admit it was true that Hughes did favor Savannah’s brother Chase, 29, over her while the siblings were growing up.
“It really has been that way her whole life, right? And so I think that that’s accumulated from childhood, because, let’s just face it, your dad is not noted for building women up. Your dad is from a whole other different generation.”
Tension was evident during the premiere episode of Lifetime’s The Chrisleys: Back to Reality that aired in September.
Hughes seemingly had issues with the way Savannah dealt with her parents being released from prison following a presidential pardon from Donald Trump in May. (Todd and Julie had been serving prison sentences for bank fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion.)
During the episode’s interaction, a frustrated Savannah was seen mouthing the words, “I hate him!”
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For her part, Julie shared in the podcast how hard it is to see her daughter and father at odds, admitting she feels “sad” about the bad blood.
“Because that is my dad, and that is my daughter. You know, as you said throughout this last podcast and this one, everybody processes their pain differently,” she said. “I hope that they can come to common ground, and I hope that they can find a place, because that is her grandfather, that is his granddaughter. So I’m very conflicted about it, so I have truly been in prayer over it.”
Julie added that she can also understand why Savannah feels the way she feels about Hughes.
“I feel like there’s some validity in it, because, and I think my dad was up front, he said, ‘You know, I have. I have failed you,” Julie said.
