Lindsie Chrisley says dad Todd ‘made great friends’ in prison: ‘He’s in a better place’
Todd Chrisley has already made “great friends” in prison after being in there for just two months, his daughter Lindsie Chrisley revealed.
In a clip from Wednesday’s episode of PodcastOne’s The Southern Tea obtained by People, Lindsie opens up about her dad’s 12-year-long stint at a Florida prison for fraud and tax evasion.
“My last visit with my dad, I couldn’t stop telling him how great that he looked,” the 33-year-old told prison consultant Justin Paperny, who advised Todd and his wife Julie Chrisley.
“He looks very very good. I told him, I said, ‘Even your hair looks better, a little bit longer and a little bit grayer.’ His nails aren’t completely bitten off,” said Lindsie, whom Todd shares with ex-wife Teresa Terry.
When quizzed on her dad’s mental well-being, Lindsie said her father is “in such a better place.”
“His spirits are great,” she explained. “He is really just embracing the process there and making the best of the process there with the people that are also there serving time with him.”
He will also serve 16 months on probation once he is released from prison.
“He’s made great friends. He talks about his friends there,” she added.
Paperny added that Todd, 54, will “learn” from his fellow inmates.
“He should be in better mood because reform has happened,” Paperny said, adding that “more reform is coming.”
Lindsie’s half-sister Savannah Chrisley last month opened up about her parents’ respective sentences, saying she’ll “never forget” the look on their faces after their guilty verdict was read.
“I will never forget the moment, sitting in that courtroom every day, a four-week trial,” she said on an episode of the “Off The Vine With Kaitlyn Bristowe” podcast.
“And it took three days for the verdict to come back.”
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“I will never forget when they stood up to read the verdicts and it was like, guilty, guilty, guilty, like over and over and over again,” she went on.
“And I just saw the looks on my parents’ faces and just everything, they were just in tears. We were not expecting that, we were like, ‘There’s no way.'”
The Chrisleys were sentenced to a combined 19 years in prison for fraud and tax evasion in November.
Todd in January began his 12-year sentence at Federal Prison Camp Pensacola, while Julie, 50, is spending the next seven years two-and-a-half hours away at Federal Correctional Institution and Federal Prison Camp Marianna.
She will also serve 16 months on probation once she is released from prison.