The Chrisleys: Back to Reality premiered on Sunday, giving fans their first peek at the famous family’s new show all about Todd and Julie Chrisley‘s life after their release from prison. But it hasn’t been an easy time for the family, especially since their daughter Savannah Chrisley was responsible for her younger sibling Grayson and her niece, Chloe, while her parents were behind bars — and according to her, brother Chase refused to help during that time.
Savannah said she and Chase are on “rocky terms.”
“Chase and I are on rocky terms because over the past two and a half years, he has not helped me at all,” Savannah said, adding that Chase “has not picked up a single ounce of slack” when it came to the responsibilities she’d taken on with their parents gone.
According to her, anytime Chase did help out, it was “performative” and because there was “something he wants to gain” from helping.
Chase thinks Savannah only wants him to help when it suits her.
Chase claimed that she only wanted help on “Savannah’s time.”
“She wants to be able to say she’s done it on her own,” he said.
He later said that though he wants to have a relationship with his sister, it hasn’t been easy. “I love her to death, but Savannah doesn’t like me half the time,” he said. “Everyone needs to get their issues out there, say what’s on their mind and move past it so it’s not awkward. Or, just don’t be around each other.”
Chase’s struggle with alcohol was also brought up on the show.
While on the subject of Chase’s January arrest, he admitted that it was when he hit “rock bottom,” and Savannah said she tried to help him get into a rehab facility at the time.
“”I had already bought him a plane ticket, we had already gone through the whole intake process, and then he told me to ‘go f—‘ myself,'” she said.
Meanwhile, Chase insisted that he never needed rehab. “I mean, like, I’m not the type to, like, drink every day and wake up wanting a drink or craving a drink, or anything like that. Just like, whenever I go, I go,” he said.
He says he’s doing better now.
On the show, Chase said that he’s prioritizing his mental health and has “stopped drinking and stopped partying,” but Savannah isn’t convinced.
“Do I believe it? No, because if he was, he wouldn’t look the way that he looks,” she told the Lifetime cameras. “It’s just the reality of it. He does not look healthy. When cameras are on, he can turn it on for as long as he needs to, and that’s the scary part.”
