Lindsey Chrisley was worried about how her parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, would cope with life in prison after they were found guilty of fraud and tax evasion and sentenced to 19 years in prison.
“You want to be strong and tell them everything is going to be okay, even though you wonder if everything will be okay,” the Southern Tea podcast host, 33, said on Wednesday.
One of my biggest fears was getting to TVs… Like, do you think people have seen Chrisley Knows Best spending time in these camps? The simple answer, which I now know, is yes.
But she said her family was treated very well.
“My parents were welcomed with open arms,” she claimed. “I feel very fortunate that I’ve heard other people say that’s not the case,” she added.
Worried: Lindsey Chrisley was worried about how her parents Todd and Julie Chrisley would cope with life in prison after they were found guilty of fraud and tax evasion and sentenced to a combined 19 years behind bars
“My last visit to my dad, I couldn’t stop telling him how amazing he looked,” Lindsey told prison counselor Justin Paperni in an exclusive clip from the podcast she obtained. the people.
Paperney counseled Todd, 54, and his wife, Julie, 50, before their imprisonment.
“He should be in a better mood because the fix has happened,” said Paperni, adding that “more fix is coming.”
“It looks very, very good,” said Lindsey. I told him, “Even your hair looks better, a little longer and a little grayer.” His nails were not completely bitten off.
“I know for sure that he is in such a better place,” she added of her father’s mental state.
His spirits are great. He really embraces the process there and makes the best of the process there with the people who are also there and spend time with him,” she explained.
He made great friends. He talks about his friends there.
The couple reported their imprisonment on January 17. Todd is serving 12 years at the Florida federal prison camp in Pensacola, and Jolie is completing her seven-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky.
Be strong: “You want to be strong and tell them everything’s going to be okay, even though you wonder if everything’s going to be okay,” said the Southern Tea podcast host, 33, on Wednesday.
Blackmail: Lindsey previously accused her father of trying to blackmail her
Previously, DailyMail had an exclusive report on the role Lindsie may have played in her parents’ downfall.
Although she said she was “heartbroken” by the imprisonment of her father and stepmother, she reportedly did not see them from the time they were sentenced in November until they went to prison.
Because, despite all her recent protests and despite a last-minute change of heart that caused her to testify on her father’s behalf, DailyMail.com can reveal that Lindsie not only contacted the Georgia Department of Revenue (GDOR), but filed a complaint against Her father is in the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department and gave a lengthy interview to the FBI in which she shared shocking allegations of harassment, physical violence, and extortion.
Lindsey outrageously reported that her father threatened to leak a sex tape of her that had been purchased by her half-brother, Chase, 26, if she didn’t lie for him first in his home state, and later in his federal, tax and fraud cases. .
Good spirits: “His spirits are great. I made it clear that he really embraces the process there and makes the best use of the process with the people who are also there and spending time with him.
BEHIND BARS: Todd is serving 12 years at the Florida federal prison camp in Pensacola and Jolie is completing her seven-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky
According to a well-placed source, “Lindsey called GDOR in 2017 after Todd and Julie were filed in their case because she was worried about the implications for her and her child (son Jackson, 10).
Then she just started saying what a horrible person her father was and how sick and tired she was of him and Julie throwing things away. She wanted everyone to know that they are just the worst of people.
An email obtained by DailyMail.com shows how seriously Lindsay takes her father’s threats.
On August 13, 2019, the same day that Chrisley and Jolie were federally indicted on eight counts of fraud and two counts of tax evasion, Lindsey called the FBI to say she was “really scared.”
She wrote, “There were some unsettling things that stalkers (sic) were posting and I worried. Can you follow up with me. This is very suggestive – maybe I’m really scared, but it’s crazy.
Later that month, Lindsey sat down with FBI agents in their Atlanta office.
DailyMail.com obtained the report of the extensive interview in which Lindsey, referred to by her married name Campbell, stated that she and her father were estranged from the age of 19 or 20 until her final years in college.
Real estate mogul Chrisley only reached out to her in 2012 when he wanted her to be a part of his reality TV show, Chrisley Knows Best.
