GOSSIP & RUMORS: Savannah Chrisley on rumor she ‘slept’ with someone for pardons

When it comes to her life, Savannah Chrisley knows best.

And the 27-year-old reality star is making it clear once and for all about what led to her parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, being pardoned by President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

Despite rumors that their prison release was obtained through favors, Savannah set the record straight during a press conference alongside her dad, 56, on Friday in Nashville, Tennessee.

“Obviously, the biggest misconception right now is that I either paid for a pardon or slept for a pardon,” she told reporters. “That’s the biggest misconception right now, and if people knew the countless hours and the money and the time that I spent going to DC, literally with not a meeting scheduled, and I just got on a plane and went and said, ‘I’m going to be in the right room at the right time and meet the right people.’”

Reflecting on all of the work she put into their advocacy and release, Savannah added, “I fought hard, and I was exhausted, and I begged for meetings. I was never too good to ask. That’s the thing, is people think, ‘Oh, you’re a celebrity, you’re white, you have money.’ That we got an upper hand, and we didn’t.”

“I had to fight, and I was relentless, and that’s how it happened,” she explained.

Todd and Julie, 52, were indicted in 2019 after federal prosecutors accused them of submitting fake documents to banks in order to garner more than $30 million in loans. Although the couple has maintained their innocence, Todd was sentenced to 12 years while Julie was set to serve seven.

At the time of their release, both parties each served a little over two years of their sentences.

Also, during the press conference, Savannah and Todd addressed coming back to television as a family two years after their reality show “Chrisley Knows Best” ended in 2023 after 10 seasons.

Todd shared he and his wife of 29 years “started filming literally the night that we got home,” which was on Wednesday.

“As soon as we got home, so I think with this new series, you will see the first time he and mom see each other for the first time,” Savannah chimed in.

A docuseries with Lifetime had been in the works following the “Special Forces” star along with her siblings Chase, 28, Grayson, 19, Chloe Chrisley, 12, and Nanny Faye Chrisley as they navigate life without Todd and Julie.

“We obviously, we had been filming, and we had just wrapped filming for all intents and purposes and then we get the call that they had been pardoned, so we picked right back up,” Savannah revealed. “And we’re excited because I think this new show is going to give, first off, it’s gonna give people a look into the trial and things that we went through and we’re gonna set the record straight, put some documents out there.”

The podcast host noted the series will allow her family to come “full circle” and “move forward with our lives” after “Mom and Dad are pardoned.”

“I know for me personally, now is — I get to be a normal 27-year-old, almost 28,” Savannah gushed. “And so my goal, it’s like, we were talking last time, it’s like I’m traveling to 30 countries by the time I turn 30.”