Savannah Chrisley has exciting plans for her future now that she’s finished advocating for her parents Todd and Julie to be released from prison.
After Todd and Julie were pardoned by President Donald Trump earlier this week and released, Savannah, 27, told People on Friday, May 30 that she had a new personal goal in mind.
“Personally, my whole goal was to travel to 30 countries by the time I turned 30,” she told the outlet. “I will be 28 in August. So right now I’m like, alright, now’s the perfect time. Mom and dad are home. I can travel to my 30 countries.”
Todd, 56, and Julie, 52, were behind bars after being indicted on fraud charges in 2019. While they each maintained their innocence, the Chrisley Knows Best couple were found guilty in 2022. Todd was sentenced to 12 years in prison, while his wife was set to serve seven years. Their sentences were reduced by nearly two years in 2024.
Savannah worked tirelessly behind the scenes in an effort to secure a presidential pardon – an effort that paid off when Trump granted one on Tuesday, May 27.
Addressing the media on Friday, May 30, in a press conference alongside her dad, Savannah touched on what she thought were some of the myths about how she managed to help obtain pardons for her parents.
“The biggest misconception right now is that I either paid for a pardon or slept for a pardon,” she said.
“If people knew the countless hours and the money and the time that I spent going to DC, literally without a meeting scheduled,” Savannah continued. “And I just got on a plane and went and said I’m gonna be in the right room at the right time and meet the right people. I fought hard and I was exhausted and I begged for meetings.”
Savannah added that she didn’t use her parents’ celebrity to gain special favor with the current administration.
“People think, ‘Oh, you’re a celebrity, you have money,’ that we got an upper hand and we didn’t,” she insisted. “I had to fight and I was relentless and that’s how it happened. Finally, people listened. So for me, that would be something that people just don’t quite understand.”
Savannah previously reacted to the news of Todd and Julie’s pardon via a statement to Us Weekly made on Tuesday, May 27.
“For the past two and a half years, I’ve done everything in my power to fight for my parents’ freedom and bring them home,” Savannah said in the statement. “This moment is the answer to countless prayers, and I am beyond grateful to President Trump for seeing the truth and restoring my family.”
She continued: “I also want to thank Alice Marie Johnson for her unwavering support and our attorney, Alex Little, for being an essential part of this process. Today is a victory for our family, but the fight against wrongful convictions and injustice within our prison system is far from over.”
