Savannah Chrisley Says It's 'Tough' Being Caretaker Amid Parents' Prison Sentence
Savannah Chrisley
Savannah Chrisley shed new light on how her life has changed in the months since her parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, began serving their prison sentences.
Following the couple's conviction, Savannah was awarded custody of her 17-year-old brother, Grayson, and her 10-year-old niece, Chloe, whom her parents adopted in 2017.
The 26-year-old spoke candidly about taking on the primary caretaker role during the upcoming Oct. 9 episode of Fox's Special Forces: World's Toughest Test season 2.
"I have custody of my 10-year-old sister and my 17-year-old brother," Savannah shared. "It's tough and I missed the first Father's Day. I'm not there and that's what sucks, not having that contact while I've been gone."
The show's Directing Staff (DS) agents offered a bit of moral support, suggesting that should Savannah make it to the end of the show–which enlists celebrities to endure some of the harshest, most grueling challenges from the actual Special Forces selection process–she would be quite the role model to her younger siblings.
"You're a mother and a father to your brother and sister, and if you make it today, tomorrow, maybe to the end, think of the modeling that you'll be doing for them," DS agent Rudy Reyes stated. "You got to stay hungry for it. You got to want it. Ignore that voice, it is the insecurity, it's the fear, ignore it."
"Keep your head in the fight," Reyes continued, "If you're missing your family, get around your other recruits, you know they're all going through the same thing, so share."
During the "interrogation," Savannah also noted that the driving reason she went on the show is a rather sentimental one.
"I think a big thing was this was the last show I watched with my parents before they left," she said. "My mom watched it. She was like, ‘You could do that.'"
In a separate clip, the podcast host took Reyes' advice and opened up to her fellow castmates about the situation, explaining that the past 10 months have been incredibly difficult for her and her family.
"With all due respect, you don't know what it feels like to have both your parents in federal prison and having to take custody of a 10-year-old and 17-year-old, that's the thing," Savannah told Jack Osbourne and Bode Miller. "I feel like s--t for not being there. I think just for the first time in my life, I actually love two people more than I love myself."
New episodes of Special Forces: World's Toughest Test debut every Monday at 9 pm ET/6 pm PT via Fox.
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