Chase Chrisley Has ‘Lost a Lot of Weight’ amid Mystery Health Struggle

Chase Chrisley said he’s “lost a lot of weight” as he “can’t keep anything down,” prompting his doctor to schedule tests on his stomach, gallbladder, and brain.

“Dude, my health is going,” he told business partner Cary Purcell in an episode of The Chrisleys: Back to Reality that aired on Sept. 9. “I don’t know if it’s just everything I’ve done catching up to me,” Chase, 29, added, a reference to his past struggles with alcohol.

But later in the episode, he and his girlfriend, Jodi Laine Fournerat, shared more details about his health after visiting a doctor. “I’m kind of scared,” Chase tells her, before giving more details in a confessional. 

“Within, like, the last year I’ve lost a lot of weight,” he said. “My body’s just, like, rejecting food.” The episode then pivots to flashbacks that show Chase stopping the car to vomit — and another time where, just the previous week, he leaves dinner to throw up.

When Jodi asks if he’s okay, he replies, “No, I’m not. I just literally can’t keep anything down.”

“Something’s going on, it sucks,” he says in the confessional, calling it “absolutely miserable.”

Jodi elaborates on Chase’s health in her confessional, saying, “It’s progressively gotten worse. He ultimately can not keep a meal, even sometimes water, down.” She said she’s tried to change his diet — elsewhere in the episode, he tells his grandmother, Nanny Faye Chrisley, that he ate five lbs. of extra-spicy crawfish “by himself” — but he “refuses to think that that will help.” 

As he tells his grandmother, his doctor wants to “run some tests to see if my gallbladder’s working, and then run a test to see if my stomach’s working.” Chase shared that he also may have a CT scan “to see if I have a brain tumor.”

In a call from prison, where Todd Chrisley and wife Julie Chrisley were serving time for tax evasion and bank fraud before their pardon by President Donald Trump in May, his father shares that Chase has been having “stomach issues” for four years that involve throwing up or needing to use the bathroom after eating. “That seems to have gotten much worse since I’ve left,” he said, estimating that Chase has lost 15 lbs.

When Todd said that Chase didn’t want to know if something was wrong, the patriarch said he told his son that sounded “stupid”: “You find out what’s wrong and you get it fixed, and you go on with your life.” 

But in the next scene, Chase vomits after eating with his Nanny Faye, who theorizes that it’s anxiety, lack of sleep, or too much hot sauce. 

“There is some fear in me that something’s gonna happen to Chase. And it’s very valid,” his sister, Savannah Chrisley, says at the end of the episode in her confessional. “Just in the way that he looks. Chase is not Chase,”

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She called him a “blank shell,” highlighting “the weight that he’s lost” and “the rings around his eyes.”

“He’s not who I know as my brother,” Savannah says. “I feel like I’ve already buried my brother.”

New episodes of The Chrisleys: Back to Reality will air Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Lifetime through its Sept. 16 finale.