Todd & Julie Chrisley’s ‘Emotional’ Final Moments Before Prison Revealed: ‘Lots Of Tears’ (Exclusive)

Todd and Julie Chrisley began serving their 12 and 7-year situation sentences, respectively, connected Tuesday, January 17. Beginning a agelong clip successful custody is definite to beryllium a hard clip for immoderate family, and a Chrisley household insider revealed to HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY that earlier the brace began to service their time, it was a tearful goodbye for the Chrisley Knows Best stars and their family.

The insider said that Todd, 53, and Julie, 49, spent arsenic overmuch clip bonding with their loved ones arsenic they perchance could, adjacent though they’re inactive unsure of what comes next. “Todd and Julie spent each yesterday with their family, and it was an highly affectional time. There were tons of tears and nary 1 knew what to accidental due to the fact that determination was thing that they could accidental which would alteration anything,” the insider said. “Todd and Julie knew that they had tally retired of options, and this was it.” The root echoed a akin sentiment that Todd had shared successful his last message connected Instagram earlier opening his sentence, wherever wrote that helium would “Fight the bully fight.”

Todd and Julie Chrisley some began their situation sentences for fraud connected Tuesday. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

A week earlier being required to study to their respective facilities, the brace had some requested enslaved portion they effort to entreaty their taxation fraud condemnation and person it overturned. They were denied bond, but the root said that they were going to support trying for the appeal. “Todd is insisting that helium volition combat the bully combat and helium is putting each his eggs successful 1 handbasket with this appeal. They person not accepted work for this, and they are not going to. They genuinely judge that they were failed by the system,” they said.

The world prima mates received their sentences successful November. Julie is presently serving her clip astatine Kentucky’s Federal Medical Center Lexington, portion her hubby is astatine Federal Prison Camp Pensacola successful Florida. “Julie’s last-minute alteration to Kentucky was a flimsy infinitesimal of joyousness for them due to the fact that astir of the kids unrecorded successful Tennessee, which is lone 1 authorities over. Todd’s determination successful Pensacola Florida is different communicative and it volition not beryllium arsenic casual to sojourn him,” the insider said. “This is truthful hard connected each of them close now.”

Todd and Julie were both recovered guilty connected each counts of taxation fraud backmost successful June. Todd was convicted of conspiracy to perpetrate slope fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, taxation fraud, and slope fraud. Julie was recovered blameworthy of taxation fraud, ligament fraud, slope fraud, conspiracy to perpetrate slope fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States.

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