Todd and Julie Chrisley are defending how they have been raising daughter Chloe despite facing backlash.
“We’re sitting here teaching her about God, about family, about being kind, generous, considerate,” Todd, 56, said during the Wednesday, March 11, episode of the couple’s “Chrisley Confessions” podcast, addressing their decision to center faith in Chloe’s life. “Those are the things that we teach her.”
Todd noted that the way they are bringing up Chloe, 13, “is working.”
“Look at how they talk about her at school. Look at how people say that she’s not for conflict, that she tries to tone that down, that she’s the one they come and pull out of class because she’s the new friend when someone comes into the school new,” he continued. “How she’s so kind and considerate. That’s what we’re raising.”
The couple, who also share daughter Savannah, 28, and sons Chase, 29, and Grayson, 19, said they have recently gotten feedback from Black women about how much or how little Chloe has been taught about her race.
“They were very thought-provoking. I actually talked to Chloe about that yesterday. She goes, ‘We don’t think that way.’ I said, ‘But how does it make you feel to know that? That we’re not doing something or doing something that makes people think that?’ She goes, ‘Well, that’s their opinion,’” Todd shared. “She said, ‘I don’t live my life to please everyone else. I live my life to please God and my family and myself.’”
Chloe is the biological daughter of Todd’s son Kyle, who he welcomed during his first marriage along with daughter Lindsie. Todd and Julie, 53, have been raising Chloe since 2016. The couple officially adopted her one month before they reported to prison in 2023.
“You have to look at it that we are raising another child. Are we perfect parents? No, there’s no such thing as a perfect parent,” Julie fired back on Wednesday. “I will sit here today and be completely honest and say, ‘Am I the perfect parent? No, I’m not.’”
She continued: “I’m not the perfect parent. But I can tell you that I love her unconditionally, that she is my child and that I’m never going to do anything ever to harm her in any way.”
Julie stood by Todd’s statement about them prioritizing values first and foremost, saying, “I’m going to always be her mother until the day that I die. I will be her mother. That’s not going to change. I have continued to raise her just as I raise the other children. Whether you like it or whether you don’t, we don’t give a s***. She is my child.”
The Chrisley family faced challenges when Todd and Julie were indicted on tax evasion, bank and wire fraud and conspiracy charges in 2019 and were ultimately found guilty. Todd was sentenced to 12 years in prison while his wife was given seven years behind bars, in addition to the couple being ordered to pay $17.8 million in restitution.
Todd and Julie maintained their innocence and continued to appeal their sentences, which were previously reduced in September 2023 by nearly two years. President Donald Trump ultimately pardoned Todd and Julie in May 2025.
