Todd & Julie Chrisley’s top five prison revelations: fights, making friends, keeping faith

Todd and Julie Chrisley are opening up on their prison stays, from making friends to getting into fights.

“The Chrisley Knows Best” stars were sentenced to a combined 19 years in prison after being found guilty of bank and wire fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy in 2022.

They began their sentences in separate prisons in 2023 and attempted appeals and were even up for a re-sentencing when they were pardoned by President Donald Trump in May.

On the Tuesday episode of their daughter Savannah Chrisley’s “Unlocked” podcast, the couple shared details of their time behind bars, recorded three weeks after their release on May 28.

Here’s some of the biggest revelations they shared.

Fights

Todd said he didn’t really witness many fights, but Julie said she saw more arguments in the women’s prison.

However, Todd did allegedly get into a tiff with Rick Singer, the man behind the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal that involved Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman.

Todd and Singer were both in the Federal Prison Camp Pensacola in Pensecola, Florida, where the reality star alleged, "He was talking smack, saying that, you know, he didn't wear a wire. He never told on anyone. The Feds set him up. This, that and the other.”

"He came and asked me, he said, Have you started your book? And I said, 'No.' He said, 'I've started working on mine.' And I said, 'Well, I hope that the first chapter introduces you as the biggest snitch in America,'" Todd continued "I told him about Felicity and Bill and Lori and them, and I said, 'I don't want to ever have another conversation with you.' And so, he turned around and walked out."

Todd claims that "months later, he was talking s--- about Savannah,” and “I just walked up to him and I said, 'I'm gonna say this one more time. I'm already in prison. I said, 'I will rip your head off and s--t down your neck if you talk about my child again.'"

The reality star added, "And I meant what I said, and you know I would have done that. I was like, 'I don't need you to be afraid of me. Just be aware that if my daughter's name comes out of your mouth again, I will rip your head off and s--- down your neck."

After that, Todd says he “never had another problem with him” and added “that’s really the only issue that I had.”

Keeping the faith

“I stayed in my faith. I prayed, I read my Bible, I worked out, I walked,” Todd said on the podcast. “I wreaked havoc on anyone that was mistreating somebody else.”

On the first night in prison, Todd recalled he was “so angry with God.”

“I remember when the lights went out, I laid there and I cried and I said, ‘God why have you forsaken me? What did I do in my life that warrants this? You know these things aren’t true but you allowed this to happen.’”

Todd said he had a dream that God spoke to him and told him “[He] said, ‘I have planted you where I need you and when you leave, they will rise.’”

The 56-year-old opted to do work in the prison chapel, saying, “I did not work, I did not give them any labor.”

Making Friends

Todd revealed he made friends with a man named Jig on his first day.

He recalled entering his room and seeing was “all this stuff laying on my bed,” including clothes and a shaving kit.

“I had read that you [were] going to be taking nothing for free because then you got to give something up, and I’m too old to be fighting all these people off,” Todd said, noting the items came from Jig, a “good Samaritan” who was sent by an unnamed person to make sure Todd was taken care of in prison.

“I said, ‘Well, I can take care of myself.’ He said, ‘I don’t have no doubt. But I still got to do what I got to do,’” Todd explained. “From that point forward, Jig and I became best buddies. And finally after seven months of being there, he tells me who told him to do that. I said you’ve got to be kidding me.”

He added, “I made a great friend in Jig and Jig was alwaysthere was never a reason to look out, I told you it was a bad, busted summer camp.”

Bad conditions

Julie said she was in a building that was “100 years old” with no proper heating and cooling in winter and summer, a “harsher” experience than what Todd had.

She also said the transit process was “horrible” and she “wouldn’t wish it” on anyone. “You are shackled and handcuffed and belly chained,” she added, saying she was transported by a plane of almost entirely full of male inmates.

At one point, she overheard a guard say, “I thought you were carving a turkey,” referring to one inmate attacking another.

Defiant attitude

Todd also said he took a more defiant attitude towards the correctional officers, saying, “Every day I got up and it was my sole intent to make their life even more miserable because they were there to make our lives miserable.”

He explained he didn’t understand other inmates trying to “buddy up” to guards since they are not there to be friends.