Savannah Chrisley ‘refused’ to let family ‘screw up’ Todd and Julie Chrisley’s pardons

Savannah Chrisley wasn’t messing around when it came to securing her parents’ presidential pardons.

In the premiere episode of Lifetime’s new “The Chrisleys: Back to Reality” series, which aired Monday night, Todd and Julie Chrisley’s eldest daughter opened up about how she was working to free her famous mom and dad from federal prison.

“Have you heard anything new about the pardons?” Chase Chrisley, 29, asked Savannah, 28, during what was the family’s first large gathering since Todd and Julie’s incarcerations two years prior in January 2023.

“No,” Savannah replied. “I mean, I wouldn’t tell y’all if I did.”

When Chase asked why his sister “wouldn’t tell” the rest of the family about the status of their parents’ pardons, Savannah explained that she “refused” to let them “screw it up.”

“We all say in our family, if you want the world to know, tell Chase,” Savannah began during a cutaway. “So you can’t trust that they’ll keep their mouths shut.”

“You can’t trust that they’re not going to say or do something that is going to put the pardons in jeopardy,” she added. “And at this point, I’m not willing to risk that. I’ve worked too hard for the past two and a half years for these pardons to happen, and I refuse to let someone else screw it up.”

“The Chrisleys: Back to Reality,” an eight-part docuseries that kicked off with the first two episodes on Monday night, chronicles the Chrisley family as they deal with the aftermath of dad Todd and mom Julie’s respective prison sentences.

Marking the former “Chrisley Knows Best” family’s first reality show since Todd and Julie were freed earlier this year, the series is also set to follow Savannah as she successfully secures her parents’ release.

The saga first began in 2022 when Todd, 56, and Julie, 52, were convicted of bank fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion.

After an appeals court upheld their respective convictions, Todd was sentenced to 12 years in prison, while Julie was sentenced to seven years.

Savannah, however, was constantly working behind the scenes to get her parents free, and the reality TV stars were ultimately pardoned by President Donald Trump in May after serving just over two years of their sentences.

Todd and Julie have sat for several interviews to discuss their time behind bars, the moment they learned about their pardons and the first thing they did after being released.

Most recently, the couple joined Savannah for a sit-down with ABC News to discuss their new “Back to Reality” Lifetime docuseries and how it is dramatically different from their previous show, “Chrisley Knows Best.”

“We’ve said for 10 years that ‘Chrisley Knows Best’ was a scripted comedy,” Savannah told host Juju Chang during an interview published Monday morning. “But this show, we peel back the layers.”

“We break it down. You’re gonna see the dysfunction. You’re going to see the fight and the tears and everything we had to go through to get to today,” she added.