One week after Julie Chrisley‘s latest hearing ended without a change in her sentence after she was convicted of fraud and tax evasion, her daughter is speaking out. On Tuesday, Savannah Chrisley took to her podcast to share how she really feels about the way things played out in court last week, and she truly didn’t hold back — in fact, she even went so far as to accuse the judge presiding over the case of “retaliation.”
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Savannah addressed what happened at the hearing this week.
Savannah was present in the courtroom at Julie’s resentencing hearing on September 25 following her successful appeal against her original seven-year sentence that she began serving in January 2023. Julie’s husband, Todd, is serving a 12-year sentence. The judge ultimately ruled that the sentence Julie had been given would still stand.
According to Todd and Julie’s 27-year-old daughter, however, the judge’s decision wasn’t about justice — it was about making an example of her mom.
She believes the judge is angry that Julie was able to appeal in the first place.
“I truly do believe that this judge, everything that she has done has been in retaliation. It has been in retaliation for us exercising our right to an appeal and being granted in part a successful appeal,” Savannah told her listeners on this week’s edition of her Unlocked podcast.
She added, “The judge showed that this was more than just us exercising our right to an appeal.”
Savannah also believes the judge was coming after her personally.
She went on to say that she thinks the judge didn’t like her “outspoken” personality, even accusing her of “indirectly reprimanding” her when it was Julie’s hearing, not Savannah’s.
“After that hearing where, it felt like it was a punch in the gut. Because to think that I did something that harmed my mother’s ability to be a free woman, that one stung really bad,” she admitted. “That was her way of telling me, ‘You better shut up because it’s only going to get worse for you.'”
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Now, she feels like she has nothing to lose.
Despite how she believes the judge treated her, Savannah isn’t about to start keeping her feelings to herself.
“At this point, I have nothing else to lose,” she said. “My mom’s in there. My dad’s in there. What do I have to lose at this point? I have nothing to lose and everything to gain.”
In court, Julie apologized for the 'actions that led to where we are today.'
“I have done everything I can do to get closer to my family,” she said. “I’ve taken tests for new skills, such as driving a forklift and serving food in proper ways … this has been the most difficult part of my life. I can’t ever repay my children for what they’ve had to go through and for that, I am so sorry.”
