Savannah Chrisley is looking back at the death of her ex-fiancé, Nic Kerdiles.
“I truly was heartbroken, devastated. I had so many regrets of things I had said publicly, and things I wish I could have apologized for and just conversations that Nic and I never got to have,” Chrisley, 27, told People on Sunday, February 23.
The former reality star was visiting her father, Todd Chrisley, in prison when she found out Kerdiles was in a motorcycle accident. (Todd, 55, is currently being held in Pensacola after being sentenced to 12 years on charges of tax evasion, bank and wire fraud and conspiracy.)
“I was shaking and sobbing. I’m like, ‘I have to get home. I have to get home,’” she explained. “[I] kept texting him, and I was like, ‘Please tell me it’s not true. Please. You’re OK, right?’ The messages were going through. So, I was like, ‘OK, maybe they just got it wrong. He’s OK.’ Because it was still showing delivered.”
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Savannah got engaged to Kerdiles in 2019 after two years of dating, with the pair later pausing on their wedding plans. Savannah announced their split in 2020 and despite briefly reconciling, the duo ended their relationship for good in 2021.
News broke in September 2023 that Kerdiles died at age 29 after a fatal motorcycle crash.
“Heaven gained the most beautiful angel today … I miss you and I love you. I’ll forever save our last messages of ‘I love you,’” Savannah wrote via Instagram Story at the time. “Please send me a sign that you’re OK. Maybe it’ll be thru [sic] a ham and cheese crepe … or pasta with white sauce … or maybe your favorite carrot cake.”
She continued: “We loved hard … and I can’t wait to ride bikes along the beaches of heaven with you one day.”
In Sunday’s interview, Savannah recalled mourning Kerdiles with Todd: “I was like, ‘I’ve got to tell [my] dad [Todd]. I can’t leave here without telling him.’ Because he and Nic were best friends. So, I went and I told my dad. I walked in, and he just automatically knew, and I just broke down.”
The Chrisley Knows Best alum “cried all day” with Todd. “He knew something was wrong. And he was just devastated and heartbroken,” Savannah noted.
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Before Kerdiles’ death, Savannah found love with now-boyfriend Robert Shiver. (Savannah initially reached out to Shiver, 40, after he made headlines in 2023 for surviving an alleged murder plot orchestrated by his ex Lindsay Shiver.)
“After a few weeks, I told Robert, I was like, ‘I promise I will stop talking about it. I just have to go through my process.’ And Robert’s exact words were, ‘You weren’t my first love and I wasn’t yours, but we can be each other’s last,’” she told People about how she “just saw the emotional maturity in him and how he showed up, and how he could have easily ran.”
Savannah added: “This is a month into us dating. Just the way that he shows up on a day-to-day basis, and the type of father that he is, and how he guides people through every hardship and adversity. It’s just [he’s the] best friend [and] teammate that you want.”
