Chase Chrisley says he turned to alcohol during parents’ prison time

Chase Chrisley had a hard time managing their parents’ time in jail.

The 29-year-old son to Todd Chrisley56, and Julie Chrisley52, went with his mother and father on the pre -piled Thursday 17 September of Tamron Hall sHow, was he opened about life without them when they served time for financial crimes.

“Our family is really close,” Todd said in a clip shared with people before the section’s broadcast. “When you lose your spine in your family, there is nothing that can prepare you for it.”

“Did I handle it in the best way? No. I learned a very valuable lesson, I did,” the reality star continued.

Todd admitted that he was not surprised that his son turned to drink while he and his wife were gone.

“Well, I’ve never had alcohol,” the father told five to hall. “So it’s never been around us.”

According to Patriarch, he and Julie were to be away not Chase’s first time he handled a drinking problem.

“I think about 18, 17, and it continued,” Todd explained. “He would go out, or he would go to the Bahamas or anywhere, and I said,” You have to stop this drink. I don’t know where it comes from, but there is nothing good to come from it. ”

Todd continued to say that everything happens for a reason, and that it took chase ”Get a mugshot For him to say, “Okay, maybe Dad was right.” “In January, Chase was arrested for a simple battery after being named a suspect in a bare attack event.

Chase told Hall to hear his father’s words made him realize that Todd was right, “but I’ve always had to learn the hard way, and this was no exception.”

The Chrisley knows best Alum acknowledged that his drink “absolutely” got worse when his parents was prosecuted on federal allegations of tax evasion, fraud and conspiracy. Todd and Julie were found themselves guilty on all bills in June 2022 and was Sentenced to 19 years in federal prison.

They were pardoned by President Donald Trump in May 2025 after spending over two years in prison.

“I didn’t really know how to process my feelings and how I felt,” Chase continued in Thursday’s section. “I just turned to drink.”

The audience applauded him when he shared that he is sober now; However, Chase repeated that he learned “a valuable lesson.”

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In the section of Tuesday 16 September of Chrisley Confessions Podcast, Todd promised to always be there for his children when they need him to move on.

“I won’t go away from one of my kids. I won’t go away from Chase when he’s down, when he has problems …” he said. “I don’t lose my child to anything.”

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