Savannah Chrisley Says Mom Julie Made Voice Recordings for Her Family at Build-A-Bear Before Prison: 'I Still Play It'

"Watching y'all for the first time play them to yourselves and listening to it was so heartbreaking," Savannah's friend Tyler recalled

Savannah Chrisley is sitting down with her friends to reflect on the days before her parents turned themselves into federal prison.

On the Sept. 10 round table episode of her Unlocked podcast, the reality star opened up about what she and her family did before Todd, 55, and Julie, 51, went away.

“I went into the living room and everyone was in there and Julie came in 30 or 40 minutes later, and she had gone to Build-a-Bear and recorded prayers for each one of her children,” Savannah’s friend Tyler Bishop remembered.

“What originally happened was she did it for Chloe because she said Chloe's prayers with her every night,” Savannah, 27, added. “And she didn't realize — because that was something that she and Chloe always did — then, Grayson had tears in his eyes and was like, ‘I want one too.’ And Build-a-Bear closed in like 30 minutes, and she raced to Build-a-Bear and made him two, made me one, made Chase one. And we all still have it.”

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Savannah said she plays the voice recording often so she can hear her mom’s voice, but 11-year-old Chloe (who is Todd and Julie’s biological granddaughter but has since been adopted) is still hesitant.

“Someone played it the other day and Chloe freaked out and was like ‘Don't play it, don’t play it,’ because she hasn't listened to it at all,” Savannah shared.

Tyler interjected: “Watching y’all for the first time play them to yourselves and listening to it was so heartbreaking.”

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Thinking about the case — Todd and Julie received a guilty verdict for bank fraud and tax evasion in June 2022 — Savannah said the family avoided the truth of the situation almost the entire time. Tyler noted that “nobody accepted the fact that they were going away until they got there.”

“That was something that mom and I have talked about,” Savannah revealed. “It was an impossible situation but she wishes they would have actually prepared to go because everyone was in so much denial that they didn’t do anything to prepare to go. Not packing the kids stuff up, moving them, packing their stuff up.”

“You did all that by yourself,” friend Holly Waldrup said.

On last week’s episode of her podcast, the Chrisley Knows Best alum explained how she handled the court proceedings leading up to her parents’ prison time. She said after hearing their guilty verdict, she had a hard time expressing her emotions.

"I didn't cry the whole way home," she told her friends. "I don't even remember getting home."

"When I got home, I literally walked in the door and collapsed," she recalled, continuing to say that she "could not calm down" and eventually "took something to, like, calm me down."

"I couldn't even function."

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The longtime couple reported to prison on January 17, 2023, with Todd at the Federal Prison Camp Pensacola in Florida and his wife Julie at the Federal Medical Center Lexington in Kentucky.

Since then, Julie's case was appealed due to her sentencing due to insufficient evidence. She is set to receive a new sentence in court in Atlanta on Sept. 25.

Todd, meanwhile, had his appeal denied. He's still set to carry out the remainder of his sentence, which was reduced in September 2023 by nearly two years.

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