Todd Chrisley’s mother Nanny Faye is opening up about how she iscopingamid her son’s12-year prison sentence.
On the latest episode of granddaughterLindsie Chrisley’s podcastThe Southern Tea, Nanny Faye, 79, reflected on some of her biggest “heartaches” that she has never publicly discussed, including Todd and wifeJuliebeing sentenced to a combined 19 years in prison forfinancial crimes.
“My heart is broke,” she said of the couple being behind bars. ‘I don’t know that I have been this broken in many days, but I have to ask God to give me strength and courage to get through it because not everybody is treated [with] justice, not everything is fair."
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Lindsie, 33, then revealed a lesson that she learned through the family’s hardships, sharing, “What I’ve learned through that experience alone is that you have to be very careful and very mindful of not falling into what the media paints you out to be.”
However, Nanny Faye advised to live her truth and stay strong.
“See, I would never give them that joy because I am hurting deep in my heart, but I’m not gonna let no one see that because you know, I have to be strong,” she said. “I am still the mother and the grandmother and I know that I have never done anything bad in my life. Never.”
She added: “But I have to let people see what Christ has done to me, what made him move on with life and so that’s what I’m gonna do. But I am broken.”
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In November 2022, Todd, 54, and his wifeJulie, 50, weresentencedto a combined 19 years in prison forfinancial crimes. Todd began his 12-year sentence at Florida’s Federal Prison Camp Pensacola in mid-January on the same day as Julie started her seven-year sentence at Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky.
They’re currently inthe process of appealing their case.
On last week’s episode of theThe Southern Teapodcast, Lindsie sharedan updateon momJulieamid the Chrisley family matriarch’sseven-year prison stint, saying, “As far as I know, she’s doing well.”
“Savannah [Chrisley]said that she’s doing very well. MyNanny [Faye]said that she’s doing very well,” she continued. “I had not been to Lexington to visit her yet.”
Lindsie explained that “there was a different process” she had to go through for visitation at Julie’s prison compared to Todd’s facility in Florida. The difficulties with the Kentucky facility have ultimately made attempting to visit more challenging.
“I sent in all of my paperwork and have yet to hear back regarding the visiting. So it’s been a little bit frustrating,” she said. “The attempts to try to communicate have been a lot different than communicating with my dad.”
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