Todd Chrisley and his wife, Julie Chrisley, found their marriage evolving after they reunited following their respective releases from prison.
“I think [our relationship] is funnier,” Todd, 57, said on the Tuesday, July 7, episode of daughter Savannah’s “Unlocked” podcast. “I think there’s more humor involved in it. … I always viewed my marriage as not just me and [Julie], but all of our kids, and I think for the first time in my life, I view our marriage as singular, just me and her.”
Todd and Julie, 53, have been married since 1996, during which period they welcomed sons Chase, 30, and Grayson, 20, as well as daughter Savannah, 28. (The Chrisley Knows Best couple also adopted daughter Chloe, 13, who is the biological child of Todd’s son Kyle, 34, from a previous relationship.)
Amid their longstanding marriage, Todd and Julie were convicted in 2022 on multiple counts of tax evasion, bank and wire fraud. Despite maintaining their innocence, the couple was found guilty and subsequently sentenced to prison. They received presidential pardons in 2025, ending their respective jail sentences early.
“It was so heavy for literally, like, 10 years or more leading up to us going away because we dealt with it every day [that there] was something new,” Julie explained on her daughter’s podcast. “I think there’s just a lightness [now].”
According to Julie, “meshing” their marriage with parenthood duties ended up blurring the lines of their relationship even more.
“At this point in my life, I’m probably more clear on what our marriage is and what it looks like and what it needs to be from my perspective,” Todd stated. “This is the person that I’m going to die with, this is the person that I’m going to be with for the rest of my life.”
As Todd and Julie have even more time together after prison, they are hoping to continually grow and thrive together.
“I want my marriage to be better,” the reality TV matriarch stated on Tuesday. “I don’t want to ever stop working toward that. I think we have a great marriage, but I think there’s always room for improvement. I want to be a better mother [because] there’s always room for improvement [and] I want to be a better grandmother. There’s always room for improvement.”
Julie continued, “[I want] to know that there’s always room for improvement and I don’t ever want to just stop. I don’t ever want to be like, ‘OK, this is as good as it gets.’”
