Savannah Chrisley Reveals She’s Dating Amid Parents’ Prison Stays

Savannah Chrisley has a newfound respect for single parents as he returns to the dating scene while taking care of his younger sister after his parents, Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisleysentenced to prison.

“I’m dating someone,” the Chrisley knows best alum, 25, admitted Kaitlyn Bristowe during the Tuesday, March 14, episode of the “Off the Vine” podcast, announced that he wanted to keep the connection private and “in a safe place until [I] really know, ‘Is this going to happen?’”

He continued: “People just hate it. They always compare it to the last person you were with. And I’m just like, ‘You know what? Maybe I’m not ready to let you go.'”

In the midst of Savannah’s romance with a mystery man, she also raised siblings Grayson, 16, and Chloe, 10. The host of the “Unlock With Savannah Chrisley” podcast received primary custody of the two younger siblings after Todd, 52, and Julie, 49 , they were found guilty of tax evasion and fraud in 2022. They were sentenced to 12 and 7 years in prison, respectively, earlier this year. (Todd and Julie share Chase ChrisleySavannah, Grayson and adopted daughter Chloe, who is Todd’s son’s biological daughter Kyle Chrisley. The TV patriarch and his ex-husband Teresa Terry also shows the daughter Lindsey Chrisley.)

“I had a breakdown [thinking]’I don’t know how [my mom has] done in all this year.’ Like, he’s an angel. She’s one of a kind,” Savannah told the former Bachelorette, 37. “There’s no way, shape or form I’ll ever be her mother. I’m still a little sister. I see single mothers and I’m like, ‘How?’ … Now I’m like, ‘It’s just a double-deal. Are you going to dinner? These two are coming.’”

He added: “This is what it is [he’s] enter. Guess what? There are two kids, my parents are not in the best place in the world right now. … 110 percent transparency. If you’re in, you’re in [and] if you’re out, you’re out.”

Savannah – who mentioned that Grayson and Chloe have met her new lover – was previously engaged to a hockey player Nic Kerdileswho popped the question in 2019. The Sassy by founder Savannah and Kerdiles, 29, called off their engagement in September 2020.

“When we got engaged, I think it was for all the wrong reasons,” Savannah told Bristowe on the Friday, March 17, episode of the “Off the Vine” podcast. “He played professional hockey [and] His career is over, so I think I’ll leave him alone. When he filed, I knew it didn’t have to happen. It’s being filmed, it’s on TV, his family is there, my family is there. This is not the way I want it to go down because…it’s just designed.

After the now-exes canceled their nuptial plans, they continued their private courtship.

“Nic and I, we’re on good terms,” ​​said Grow Up Chrisley special alum to Us Weekly in November 2020. “We are young and ambitious, and you know, we are trying to find our way in life. There are no permanent decisions, so you never know what can happen. We have the rest of our lives to figure things out.

Savannah and Kerdiles eventually separated almost three years later.

While the Georgia native is happy to be dating, she was previously candid about her next steps amid her parents’ prison sentences.

“In my mind, I was like, ‘I can’t go on with my life,'” Savannah told her fiance Chase, Emmy Medders, during the December 2022 episode of the “Unlock” podcast. “Until I know he’s going to be there, I can’t get married. I can’t have children.”

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He continued at the time: “I’m going forward because it’s so easy, I don’t have to focus on anything else. So, in terms of business, I’m going to go ahead. I’m going to do a podcast, Sassy, ​​I’m going to do everything. But personally, i feel a sense of guilt associated with moving on with life and thinking that mom and dad aren’t here during certain life events.