As Todd and Julie Chrisley fight to reverse their sentencing in their bank fraud and tax evasion case, they have the full support of their daughter Savannah Chrisley, who is now seeking alternative methods for their release.
The longtime couple, who wed in 1996, began appealing their case shortly after being sentenced in November 2022. Todd's request was denied while Julie's appeal was granted due to insufficient evidence. However, the judge overseeing her case upheld Julie's original sentencing.
The Chrisley family isn't giving up just yet. Savannah, 27, tells PEOPLE exclusively that while she's uncertain of the timeline of this new plan, they intend to seek President Donald Trump's help in pardoning Todd, 55, and Julie, 52.
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"I know that I am going through the proper channels to do so, and I'm going to bring as much awareness to it as possible because these things should not happen," she says of her parents' case, for which the duo has vehemently denied all wrongdoing.
Looking back on what her family has endured in the last several years since the August 2019 indictment occurred, Savannah says: "We thought it was going to end differently."
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"We had lawyers who had told us it was going to end differently," she recalls. "We stood in the truth, and we stood in what we knew to be the truth. We saw the corruption in Fulton County. We saw how the judge handled the case. We just saw all of it and we're like, 'There's no way. There's no way it's going to end this way.' But, it did."
Thereafter, the Chrisley Knows Best alum became the legal guardian of her younger siblings Grayson, 18, and Chloe, 12, at 25 years old. She also had to work multiple jobs to keep her loved ones afloat.
She began hosting her Unlocked with Savannah Chrisley podcast, competed on reality television shows and sold houses as a realtor. She also plans to soon launch a direct-to-consumer female pharmacy brand later this year.
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While reflecting on her resilience, Savannah acknowledges that going through hardship has only made her stronger.
"I think that I've gone through a lot of s--- in my life. I really have. And I've gone through a lot of things that I've never even publicly spoken about," she explains. "When you fight silent battles, resilience just comes. When you fight silent battles, there was no one that was there for you. Whether you didn't allow someone to be there for you, or whether you just didn't have people there, you just learned to pick yourself up."
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She also credits her father. "I come from a place [where] my dad was very much just like, 'Come on, we can do this. We can do this. You can do anything a man can do, if not better.' My dad was a constant encourager in that way," she continues. "[Resilience] just comes, I think, by having that encouragement. Also, knowing that I don't ever want to give up, and I want to give my future children something to look at and be proud of."
"I have such a fight mentality in me. I'm a Leo to its core. So, I just don't give up," she adds.