Chase Chrisley Hasn’t Seen His Parents ‘Very Much’ Due to Issues with Savannah

Chase Chrisley is putting the blame on his friction with sister Savannah Chrisley for not seeing his parents “very much” following their release from prison.

During a conversation with Nanny Faye Chrisley on the penultimate episode The Chrisleys: Back to Reality‘s first season, Chase, 29, told his grandmother that he has been seeing his parents Todd and Julie Chrisley “as much as I can” following their release from prison.

“I mean, I haven’t been able to go over there very much because it’s Savannah, because she and I can’t get along,” he shared.

When Nanny Faye advised him to “ignore her,” he shared his side of the story.

“Whenever I go over there, it makes the whole situation uncomfortable. And like, I’m not gonna make Grayson or my mom and my dad feel uncomfortable, just because me and Savannah can’t get along, just because she’s Vladimir Putin‘s daughter,” he said, referring to the President of Russia.

In a confessional, Chase admitted that he still sees his parents “more than when they were locked up.” 

Referring to the situation as a “nightmare,” he added, “Any chance I get to go over there and see my mom and see my dad, I’m taking it [but] my dad’s also not skipped a beat, so he’s busy. I’ve gotten to go over there and spend one-on-one time with him. I’ve got to spend one-on-one time with my mom, so I’m very, very blessed.”

However, he admitted to Nanny Faye that he doesn’t believe his relationship with Savannah is “repairable,” adding, “We don’t speak…We’re not speaking.”

Nanny Faye suggested that Chase “just get up and be the best you can be” despite the family tension.

“She does not want a relationship with me….She has flat-out said she does not want a relationship,” Chase insisted as Nanny Faye responded, “She does, but she wants you to be in a better place. That’s what she’s saying.”

Chase, however, questioned how Savannah, 28, would know how he’s doing if she “doesn’t even know me.”

“Ever since Mom and Dad went away, she completely kicked me out of the family,” he claimed. “She doesn’t know what place I’m in, whatever. Savannah is a hypocrite. I love her, but stay the f— out of my business. Don’t talk about me. I won’t talk about you, and we’ll leave it at that.” 

“I just wanted to leave me alone, it’s ridiculous,” he continued. “I can’t go see my mom and my dad without it being uncomfortable because of her.”

Todd, 57, and Julie, 52, made it clear they wouldn’t be getting involved in their children’s issues.

“Where Chase and Savannah are right now is an uncomfortable situation, but it’s not one that I’m feeding into because one’s not gonna get me over here to get me to talk about the one that’s not here, and this one’s not gonna get me to talk about the one that just left,” Todd said. “They’re both my children, and I love them equal.”

Julie added: “I don’t have that luxury. I don’t have my brother who I can go to and I can sit down and have dinner with, or fight and make up with, and that’s how I feel.”

Todd noted that he told the pair that “it’s the greatest form of disrespect to me and your mother for y’all to ever be fighting, because every one of y’all were conceived from pure love.” 

As for Savannah, he explained that she is “very cut and dry. If you do something that embarrasses her, or you are out here partying and acting like an idiot, and that gets back to her, that sends her to a whole other level. I’m that way, but I’m not turning my back on my child.” 

“And as I said to her last week when she and I had a heated conversation, I said, ‘You will listen to me. That is your brother. He is my son, and he will be welcome anywhere I stand, and you better get over your s— because you’re not going out here holy rolling and saying that you’re fighting for the world when you won’t fight for your brother.’”

He also advised to be patient with Savannah, saying, “I have told Chase, just because you’re now in a better place, and you want to say, ‘I’m sorry,’ but that doesn’t mean that — because you’re in a place to where you want to apologize and ‘Okay, we’re done. Let’s move on’ — the person you offended doesn’t have to be at the same place at the same time.” 

“But at the end of the day, it is not going to continue, because I’m not going to tolerate it,” he concluded.

The famous siblings’ feud has been playing out throughout the course of the first season of The Chrisleys: Back to Reality.

During an interview on Nightline alongside parents Todd and Julie earlier this month, Savannah, 28, shared, “I haven’t spoken to Chase in … I can’t tell you when.”

The siblings’ problems came to a head while their parents were serving a combined 19 years in prison in November 2022 (though that number was reduced by around two years each in September 2023) after they were convicted of 12 counts of bank and wire fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy. They were later pardoned by President Donald Trump and released from prison in May.

“I feel that I had so much pressure on me,” Savannah said. “I think it was just being in the circumstances that I was in and had all these people in close proximity but I never felt so alone.”

When asked if she would characterize her relationship with Chase as “estranged,” she replied, “No, no, because at the end of the day, he is my brother and I love him. But, I also have to love myself, too.”

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The Chrisleys: Back to Reality is streaming on the Lifetime App.