Todd Chrisley clapped backmost astatine his granddaughter Chloe’s biological mother Angela Johnson during an occurrence of his podcast Chrisley Confessions, alongside his wife Julie, on Wednesday, December 14. Todd, 53, and Julie, 49, legally adopted Chloe, 10, successful 2017. Angela has publically made claims that she wants to regain custody of Chloe, who she had with Todd’s eldest son Kyle, but Todd clapped backmost astatine Angela’s efforts. “It’s ironic that her biologic parent would travel guardant now, erstwhile she has not been successful her beingness since 2015,” helium said.
The Chrisley Knows Best stars had antecedently responded to Angela’s claims and their lawyer Jessica Doyle released a connection to People explaining that Chloe’s biologic ma didn’t person a ineligible statement to make. Todd re-iterated what their lawyer said. “Angela Johnson surrendered her parental rights successful March of 2017, and we ne'er heard from her again,” helium said connected the podcast. “Chloe was legally adopted by myself and by Julie, and she is legally our child, and we volition beryllium the ones who decide, if and erstwhile the clip comes, arsenic to who volition beryllium her caregiver.”
Later successful his speech, Todd explained that if Angela had reservations astir allowing Todd and Julie to go Chloe’s ineligible parents, she should’ve said truthful during the hearing. “Angela Johnson virtually surrendered her rights to her child. She did this successful beforehand of a judge. The justice explained to her, ‘You recognize what you’re doing, you recognize that you’re surrendering the rights of your child,’ and past explained that she had X magnitude of days to travel backmost successful and rescind that. She asked her successful that proceeding that day, ‘Has anyone promised you thing financial? Has anyone threatened you?’ The reply to each of that is no, and that’s successful writing, and it’s successful a tribunal document,” helium said.
Todd proceeded to explicate that helium and Julie besides offered housing, a car, and adjacent wealth to be nursing schoolhouse for Chloe’s mother. He besides alluded to his and Julie’s prison condemnation for taxation fraud. Even though helium didn’t accidental truthful outright, helium seemingly implied that adjacent if they service their sentence, helium doesn’t program to give up custody of Chloe. “Her beingness is going to beryllium arsenic unaltered arsenic it perchance tin be, based connected what Julie and I person the quality to control,” helium said. “Angela Johnson has nary rights to Chloe. Her rights were terminated. She has been legally adopted. I person work immoderate of the comments wherever radical person said, ‘Sweetie, you waited 10 years excessively late.’ That is correct.”
Toward the extremity of his treatment astir the play connected the podcast, Todd showed that helium had religion that helium and his household would beryllium beardown done the issue. “Chloe’s not going to Angela. Angela doesn’t person immoderate rights to her,” helium said. “At the extremity of the day, it is simply a concern that we are successful that we ne'er thought we would beryllium in, but we proceed to enactment our religion successful our Lord and savior.”
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