Julie Chrisley Recalls ‘Busting Out Crying’ After Learning About Her Pardon from Savannah: ‘I’m Getting Out of Here’

Julie Chrisley is speaking out for the first time exactly one month after returning home.

The Chrisley Knows Best matriarch, 52, made her first public remarks since her release from prison in a preview for a June 28 interview on FOX News Channel’s My View with Lara Trump. In the short clip, Julie shared her reaction to learning that President Donald Trump granted her and her husband Todd Chrisley full pardons, relieving them of the serving the remainder of their 2022 sentence for bank fraud and tax evasion.

“I called Savannah one more time, and she said, ‘He did it, he signed it,'” Julie recalled of the moment her 27-year-old daughter delivered the news. “And I just started busting out crying. And everyone was looking around, and then I just hung up. I was so nervous, I just hung up.”

Seated beside her were Todd, 56, Savannah and son Grayson, 19, who smiled as they listened to her tell the story to host Lara Trump, who is also President Trump’s daughter-in-law.

“It was the craziest thing, and everybody was just looking at me, because unfortunately, most of the news that you get in prison is bad news,” Julie continued. “So they’re like, ‘Are you okay?’ I’m like, ‘I am. I’m getting out of here. I’m getting out of here!'”

Todd also reflected on how he got word of his release: “This guy stops me and goes, ‘Man, I think you just got pardoned.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, okay.’ And I just kept on walking. So when I went into my dorm, one of the guys, the COs, he came by and he goes, ‘Are you good?’ And I said, ‘As good as I can be.’ And he said, ‘Todd, you just got pardoned. They sent me down here to make sure you’re okay.'”

“I said, ‘Well, they don’t need to be worrying about me now. Hell, if I’m pardoned, I’m great,'” he jokes, going on to thank God, who he believes “touched President Trump’s heart.”

“God led the people to advocate for us,” Todd concluded. “And so I’m grateful because every night I would pray that God would return me home to my wife and my children. And he did that, so I’m grateful.

The official Instagram page for the show also posted a series of behind the scenes images and a video from the day they recorded the segment. The first photo saw Lara join the family as they smile for a group photo, while the video captured the moment the host kicking off the interview.

Todd made his return to the spotlight just two days after his release, holding a press conference on Friday, May 30 with Savannah in Nashville. He began by thanking “every person that has prayed for us and stayed in the fight and fought for the truth to come out,” before explaining why Julie wasn’t present.

“Julie, who is a wonderful, decent, God-fearing woman, that I am blessed to have been married to and been with for over 30 years now, an excellent mother, she is at home with Chloe right now,” he shared of the 12-year-old, who is the biological daughter of his son Kyle Chrisley, though Todd and Julie adopted her in 2016. “Chloe will not let her go, so we’re blessed to have our family back.”

He went on to gush over Julie being his “best friend” who has been through “all the ups and downs” of life with.

“It was great to be home,” Todd said. “No matter where that is, as long as she’s there, it’s home.”

Julie has been spotted out in public, first stepping out spotted out on May 29 after spending two years behind bars in a Kentucky facility. Photos shared by Fox News Digital captured Julie smiling as she ran errands in Nashville and sported her natural gray hair.

That same day, she reunited with Todd, who had been in a separate prison in Florida. 

Todd and Julie will be reviving their podcast to share more about their experience in prison.

This won’t be the last the public will be hearing from the Todd and Julie together. In the June 3 episode of Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley, Savannah revealed that her parents would be appearing on her podcast in the near future.

She also revealed that the couple will be “relaunching” their podcast, Chrisley Confessions, which is under the PodcastOne umbrella like Savannah’s and went on hiatus during their incarceration.

“I am so excited for that … and for them to have a place to share their story and be truly authentically themselves after the past two and a half years,” Savannah said.

The couple were indicted in August 2019 and later convicted and sentenced to a combined 19 years in prison in November 2022 (though that number was reduced by around two years each in September 2023).

They immediately began appealing their case, and while Todd’s appeal was upheld, Julie’s was initially granted due to insufficient evidence. However, a judge later ruled that her original punishment was sufficient. 

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Lara Trump’s interview with Julie, Todd, Savannah and Grayson Chrisley is airing Saturday, June 28, at 9 p.m. ET during FOX News Channel’s My View with Lara Trump.