Chase Chrisley spoke candidly about his ingesting habits and up to date arrest throughout the two-night premiere of Lifetime's The Chrisleys: Again to Actuality.
In episode 2 of the brand new docuseries, which aired Monday, September 1, Chase, 29, and his household opened up in regards to the highs and lows that got here with actuality TV fame. Followers have been first launched to the Chrisleys in 2014 due to USA Community's Chrisley Is aware of Finest. The sequence and its spinoff, Rising Up Chrisley, have been canceled after Todd and Julie Chrisley have been sentenced to a mixed 19 years in jail for a number of tax evasion and financial institution fraud costs.
“I one hundred pc took the present as a right,” Chase mentioned in a confessional on Monday. “It was, like, the very best job on the planet. After my mother and father went away, once I began ingesting, I'd simply go and go and go and go. [I] wasn't setting any boundaries for myself and didn't actually have anyone to inform me no.”
Chase was arrested in January on a easy battery cost after being named as a suspect in an alleged assault at an Atlanta bar. He was taken into police custody and later launched on a $10,000 bond.
Chase informed the Lifetime cameras that he didn't “bear in mind so much” from the night time the incident occurred however insisted he “wouldn't slap anyone.” (In a police report, the supervisor claimed Chase was “belligerent” and “slapped him within the face twice” after being requested to go away the bar.)
“All people there says I didn't put my fingers on anyone, however I imply, it ended up with me with a mugshot. I believe I kinda simply hit all-time low,” Chase mentioned, admitting he had been “ingesting closely.”
(L-R) Chase Chrisley, Julie Chrisley and Todd Chrisley attend the 53rd Academy of Nation Music Awards Photograph by Michael Tran/FilmMagic
Following the incident, Chase's attorneys claimed in an announcement that the scenario was “completely blown out of proportion.” His household, nonetheless, expressed their considerations as cameras rolled on their new doc.
“After I needed to discover out about my son's arrest whereas I used to be in jail, it makes me afraid,” Julie, 52, mentioned in audio from a jail telephone name. “The worst potential factor as a guardian that you can imagine is the thought that he's conducting himself in a method that's main him down a nasty path. It simply, it breaks my coronary heart.”
Todd, 56, was considerably much less heartbroken. “I don't know that I used to be shocked, as a result of I had been warning Chase for years to cease with the ingesting. There's nothing in a bar that was gonna deliver you no luck,” he mentioned in his personal telephone name.
Viewers have been later proven a video message Todd recorded the night time earlier than he and Julie reported to jail in 2023. Within the clip, Todd informed his son that he loves him and inspired him to cease partying. “Don't you ever quit in life, and extra importantly, don't quit on your self,” Todd added.
Chase's girlfriend, Jodi Laine Fournerat, acknowledged that the couple went via “a tricky time” due to his ingesting habits. His siblings Savannah and Grayson Chrisley appeared exasperated by his habits.
“The identical set of oldsters he misplaced is identical set I misplaced,” Grayson, 19, mentioned whereas sitting down with Todd's mother, Nanny Faye. “However I'm not gonna sit there and maintain his hand 'trigger I've already been a giant brother to him. He ain't been one to me.”
Savannah, in the meantime, confessed that her first thought after Chase's arrest was, “Pricey God, can I please change my final identify?” She additional claimed she went to nice lengths to assist her brother earlier than issues went “downhill.”
Staying sturdy for each other. The Chrisley youngsters have been vocal about how they're coping with out Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley as they serve their respective jail sentences. In January 2023, Us Weekly confirmed that Todd turned himself into FPC Pensacola minimal safety facility in Florida for his 12-year sentence, whereas Julie is serving her […]
“I've tried. I've tried to assist him. Earlier than he bought arrested, I had arrange for him to go to a therapy facility. I had already purchased him a airplane ticket. We had already gone via the entire consumption course of,” she mentioned. “After which he informed me to go eff myself.”
Whereas Chase informed the cameras that he's pumped the brakes on his partying for the sake of his “psychological well being,” Savannah wasn't so certain. “He doesn't look wholesome,” she claimed.
Earlier than Todd and Julie have been pardoned and launched from jail in Could, Chase heard from his father about his battery arrest. “My dad didn't name me and bitch me out or something,” Chase recalled. “I believe he was simply extra disillusioned. Which I'd've fairly him bitch me out than be disillusioned. Like, that's simply the worst factor to listen to.”
The Chrisleys: Again to Actuality continues on Lifetime Tuesday, September 2, at 8 p.m. ET with one other two back-to-back episodes on September 9. The finale airs September 16.
