Savannah Chrisley opened up about how talking out about her conservative political beliefs impacted her profession.
In July 2024, the 27-year-old TV character gave a speech on the Republican Nationwide Conference the place she endorsed now-President Donald Trump forward of the 2024 election, saying that her household being branded the “Trumps of the South” was a “badge of honor.”
Chrisley has additionally incessantly voiced her assist for Trump and his Make America Nice Once more motion on her social media.
The previous “Chrisley Knows Best” star lately revealed that she plans to hunt a presidential pardon from Trump for her mother and father, Todd and Julie Chrisley, who stay incarcerated after being convicted of federal financial institution fraud and tax evasion.
Throughout a current interview with Individuals journal, Chrisley admitted that publicly sharing her conservative beliefs got here with a value.
“I lost some deals when I came out politically on why I stood for what I stood for,” she stated.
Chrisley instructed Individuals her podcast “Unlocked” has helped her assist her household financially and has enabled her to have a “louder voice” when expressing her political beliefs.
“It’s giving me a job to provide for my family, and that’s the number one thing that I’m so grateful for,” stated Chrisley, who turned the authorized guardian of her sister Chloe, 12, and brother Grayson, 18, when her mother and father went to jail.
Nonetheless, she defined that her outspokenness has restricted her earnings since she has been instructed that advertisers ‘don’t wish to contact conservative.’”
“That was a tough thing for me because once again, I was being forced in a hole of — do I stand for what I believe in, or do I feed my family. Which one? We should never live in a world where your job is in jeopardy, because of [a] difference of beliefs,” Chrisley instructed Individuals.
“It should never be that way and unfortunately, it was,” she continued. “You can have differences of opinions and beliefs, and still voice your stance on something.”
No matter shedding out on profitable contracts, Chrisley stated, “It was all worth it.”
Chrisley additionally instructed Folks that it was additionally vital for her to set an instance for Grayson and Chloe as she didn’t need them to develop up believing that they needed to conceal their views or give into stress from others.
Chrisley can also be working with the Conservative Political Motion Convention (CPAC).
She serves because the group’s senior fellow for prison justice reform and hosted a CPAC occasion at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property final November.
Trying again, Chrisley stated that she was galvanized to talk out after her mother and father have been sentenced to jail.
The previous actuality stars are at present serving out their mixed 19-year jail sentence at separate amenities in Kentucky and Florida.
Every reported to jail in January 2023 after being convicted in November 2022.
“Probably a year after my parents left, I just became very outspoken, because I knew nothing about our criminal justice system,” Chrisley recalled. “I honestly thought bad people go to prison. That’s what I thought. And that is so far from the truth.”
“I grew up in the South, where you live, breathe, and die for our country,” Chrisley added. “You respect our flag, you respect our nation. You respect our police force. You believe everything that they say it is. And now, I don’t. I believe nothing. My eyes have been opened to what actually happens in our criminal justice system, how broken it is.”
“When I started realizing these things, I just knew I can’t stay silent about it any longer. I have to come out about it.”
