Savannah Chrisley confirmed that she is still estranged from brother Chase Chrisley despite their family’s recent reunion.
“I haven’t spoken to Chase in … I can’t tell you when,” Savannah, 28, admitted in an interview with Nightline that aired on Tuesday, September 2.
The siblings notoriously fell out while their parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, were imprisoned for 28 months following their conviction on bank fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion charges in 2022. Savannah worked with Donald Trump’s administration to secure her parents’ pardon in May 2015.
“I feel that I had so much pressure on me,” Savannah explained on Nightline. “I think it was just being in the circumstances that I was in and had all these people in close proximity but I never felt so alone.”
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Both Savannah and Chase opened up about their feud on the family’s brand new reality show, The Chrisleys: Back to Reality, which chronicles life for Todd, Julie and their children following the couple’s release from prison. (Todd, 56 and Julie, 52, share three children: Chase, 29, Savannah, 28, and Grayson, 19. Todd also shares Lindsie, 35, and Kyle, 34, with his ex-wife, Teresa Terry.)
Chase accused Savannah of driving “a little wedge” between him and their younger brother, Grayson, due to his recent personal struggles. In January, Chase was arrested for simple battery following a night out in Atlanta but has yet to be charged.
“Savannah just wants to be worshiped, and I’m not doing that. I don’t know what her beef is with me,” he claimed.
During one confessional interview, Chase said he’d tried to reach out to his sister but his calls and texts went unanswered.
“I know Savannah’s trying to paint me out to be this big, bad monster that’s not there for the family, but that’s just not the case. I wanna be there for my family. I want us to actually have a family dynamic and a family relationship,” Chase said. “I’ve reached out and I’ve apologized for anything she feels that I’ve done, or haven’t done. And I told her that I’m here when she’s ready. I just don’t think she’s ready right now.”
Grayson came to his sister’s defense, insisting that Chase only wanted to make up with his family because of their new TV show.
“[He] made it seem like it was some heartfelt thing, that he wanted to rekindle the relationship, and he goes, ‘You know, we just really need to get along better for the show,’” Grayson said. “He does everything for the cameras.”
Elsewhere in The Chrisleys: Back to Reality, Savannah and Chase both confirmed they were still not speaking to sister Lindsie Chrisley following a long-running family rift. According to Savannah, the drama started when Lindsie allegedly tried to wake up Chloe Chrisley, 13, to make a social media post. (Chloe is the biological daughter of Todd’s eldest son, Kyle, and his ex Angela Johnson but was adopted by Todd and Julie.)
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“I remember vividly one day [Lindsie] and my mom got into an argument because Lindsie went to wake up Chloe out of bed to do a social media post with her, and Chloe was already in bed,” Savannah claimed in a confessional interview. “Now if somebody did this to Lindsie’s child, she would have gone berserk.”
Lindsie later spoke about the incident on The Dr. Phil Show, where she alleged: “It was our last day of filming [Chrisley Knows Best]. [Julie] said that I woke up my niece. The altercation escalated and she shoved me at my neck.”
On The Chrisleys: Back to Reality episode two, Chase complained that Lindsie’s interview about the family was “bulls***.”
“I’m just so paranoid about strangers being close to me,” Chase said in a confessional interview. “After blood will screw you over, then a stranger definitely will.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Lindsie’s rep for comment on the episode.
The Chrisleys: Back to Reality continues on Lifetime Tuesday, September 9, with two back-to-back episodes at 8 p.m. ET. The finale airs September 16.
