Todd Chrisley and wife Julie reportedly detail how real life is 'rougher' than life in prison

Media personality and real-estate entrepreneur, Todd Chrisley, and his wife, Julie, a reality TV personality, share their experience in prison and discuss how real life is 'rougher' than life in prison on the latest episode of their Chrisley Confessions 2.0 podcast.

Todd and Julie Chrisley, who gained popularity after starring as the respective patriarch and matriarch of the USA Network reality TV series Chrisley Knows Best, were released from prison in May 2025.

The 56-year-old Todd Chrisley and his 52-year-old wife Julie were sent to different federal prisons in January 2023, where they spent over two years after they were convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion in 2022. However, the couple was released on May 27, 2025, after President Donald Trump provided them with full pardons.

On the July 23, 2025 episode of their Chrisley Confessions 2.0 podcast, the couple opened up about their prison experience, while sharing that their real life is much more difficult than life in prison. Julie Chrisley, on the recent episode of their podcast, said:

"I've actually talked to a few of the women that I was in prison with that they're already home, whatever. We all have this general consensus that — it’s kind of weird to even say it."

To which Todd Chrisley added:

"No, it's not weird. Life is rougher than prison life. "

He went ahead and added:

"It is so horrific, the conditions that you're there for, but that’s from a physical standpoint. But from an emotional and psychological standpoint, it is harder dealing with day to day."

Julie, who shares three children: Savannah (27), Grayson (19), and Chase (29), with Todd Chrisley, explained that in prison, one doesn't have any control over things and there's not much one can do, so it changes people's mindset, as it happened to her. She said:

"People told me this when I first got there: you can't live out there and in here at the same time. Because it'll literally run you crazy, and that’s the truth. The longer you're there, the more removed you become to the world."

Todd Chrisley and his wife, Julie, explain how it was to rediscover their normal routine

Todd Chrisley and Julie, on their podcast, discussed and explained how it was for them to rediscover their usual, day-to-day routine after life in prison. Todd, while talking to Julie, said:

"You've been having to get back in the swing of taking control of everything. Running a house and making sure everything's done the way it's supposed to be done."

While both of them agreed on the fact that sleeping after being released from prison has been a huge challenge for them, Todd Chrisley added:

"I went to prison for 28 months. I never had trouble sleeping. Maybe, because I wasn't fighting with everybody. Let me tell you something, the members of my mob — otherwise known as the Chrisley Clan — they're the ones who have kept me awake all these years."

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Julie also talked about reuniting with her kids and said:

"The longer that people are away from their kids — as crazy as it sounds, because it's a double-edged sword— the easier it becomes because you get into your own routine. Doesn't mean you don't miss them, you don't love them, all that. But just from me being in prison, I had to just watch out for me. I had to take care of me. I had to make sure that I was as good as I could be physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally. And that's all I could really do."

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