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A harrowing expertise. Savannah Chrisley spoke out about her brother Grayson‘s automotive accident for the primary time.
“He was on the interstate. I feel one other automotive was, like, weaving out and in of visitors,” the Sassy by Savannah founder, 25, defined throughout the Tuesday, November 29, episode of her “Unlocked” podcast on PodcastOne. “I feel everybody within the state of affairs simply overcorrected due to this one automotive.”
Grayson, 16, was concerned in a automotive crash on November 12 and sustained accidents that required therapy at a hospital. “His automotive’s totaled,” Savannah added. “It was unhealthy.”
Information of the teenager’s accident broke days earlier than his dad and mom, Todd and Julie Chrisley, have been sentenced to a mixed 19 years in jail following their June conviction for tax fraud. Savannah revealed that her little brother was anxious about inflicting additional bother for his household forward of the sentencing.
“The very first thing that he mentioned was, ‘This was the very last thing that everybody wanted,’” Savannah recalled. “Dad was like, ‘Grayson, you’re alive, you’re secure, who cares? It’s a automotive, that’s what insurance coverage is for. You’re alive and also you’re secure and also you’re nicely.’”
Savannah revealed that her sibling known as her first earlier than dialing Julie, 49. “I feel he known as me as a result of he was so afraid of getting in bother, and he thought I might save him from it,” the wonder entrepreneur defined. “He made it sound like a fender bender. Y’all, once I inform you the entire entrance of his truck … like, each airbag deployed. It was unhealthy. Once I confirmed up and noticed it, actually my coronary heart sank.”
Whereas the automotive was destroyed, its driver is in significantly better form. “He’s OK,” Savannah advised listeners. “He’s beat up, however he’s OK. It might have been worse.”
The Georgia native recorded the newest episode of her podcast with Julie earlier than the sentencing, which befell on November 21. Julie was sentenced to seven years in jail, whereas her husband, 53, was ordered to finish 12 years.
“Yesterday was a tough day for the Chrisley household,” the couple’s lawyer advised Us Weekly in an announcement on November 22. “However Todd and Julie are folks of religion, and that religion provides them energy as they attraction their convictions.”
Within the pre-taped episode, Julie once more denied the costs in opposition to her and her husband. “I take into consideration the state of affairs that we’re coping with proper now, and I’m serious about I’ve by no means gone out right here and harm a soul,” she mentioned. “I’ve by no means gone out right here and deliberately tried to do something that I wasn’t imagined to do, and look the place I’m standing proper now. How is that proper?”
Savannah, for her half, slammed the justice system, claiming that her dad and mom have been handled extra unfairly than perpetrators of extra violent crimes. “Take a look at all the pieces that we’re going by means of. How is that simply?” the Rising Up Chrisley alum mentioned. “It’s not whenever you’ve obtained rapists and murderers and traffickers and all these folks out right here however but, what? They only get a slap on the wrist.”
