After spending more than two years in prison, Todd Chrisley lamented over how difficult it was to see what his wife looked like upon their release. Todd, 56, and 52-year-old Julie Chrisley have been married for nearly 30 years, but Todd has apparently never seen his wife’s natural hair. On their Chrisley Confessions podcast, he told Julie that seeing her natural appearance — after more than two years in prison, no less — was so “rough” that he “started thinking about going back” to prison.
It sounded like the first time Julie was hearing about this.
Though Todd acted pretty disgusted and surprised by what Julie looked like after being released from prison, Julie seemed to have no idea until he announced it on their podcast. “I’m not going to lie,” Todd said to Julie on a recent episode. “When I first saw you when I got out of that car, I started thinking about going back. But then I thought, let me embrace this. This is a moment.”
“Are you kidding me, right now?” Julie responded.
Todd attempted to justify his comments.
Prior to admitting that he thought about going back to prison after seeing his wife again, Todd told her that she “set the bar low” with her post-prison appearance and “had nowhere to go but up.” Clearly surprised by her husband’s harsh comments, Julie said, “Now, that wasn’t very nice.”
But in attempting to explain himself, Todd just emphasized how hard seeing her like that was for him. “It was a rough moment because I had never seen you dark in my life,” he explained. “[In] 30 years, I’ve never seen you with dark hair.”
Julie responded with, “I know that, Todd. But I didn’t have any choice.”
Julie explained how she took care of her hair in prison.
On the podcast, Julie clarified that she was able to color her hair while in prison, but it was obviously not the same as going to a salon. At first, a fellow inmate, Melissa, helped her color her hair. But Melissa was released a couple of months later. After that, Julie decided to dye her hair brown instead of blond.
“I started growing [my hair] out, and it was so gray,” Julie explained. “And I was like, ‘Oh my God, what am I going to do?’ So I just put the brown on my hair to cover up the gray.”
After a while, she stopped coloring it and letting it grow out. She did this so it would be easier for her hair stylist to work with once she got out of prison. Julie said her friends in prison urged her to do something about her hair.
“So even these chicks in prison acknowledged you needed to do something with that situation?” Todd questioned. Julie replied with, “Well, everybody thought I should be blond. But it was really hard to be good blond in prison.”
