Chase and Savannah Chrisley Were on ‘Rocky Terms’ amid Parents’ Imprisonment

When it comes to the ongoing tension between them, Savannah Chrisley and Chase Chrisley aren’t sugarcoating it.

The famous siblings address their long-rumored feud in the premiere episode of The Chrisleys: Back to Reality. In doing so, Savannah, 28, and Chase, 29, did not hold back the truth about how they currently feel about one another.

“Chase and I are on rocky terms because over the past two and a half years, he has not helped me at all,” Savannah alleged to the cameras, claiming that her big brother “has not picked up a single ounce of slack” amid their parents Todd and Julie Chrisley’s imprisonment despite having “been given ample opportunity to do so.”

This is a big departure for the siblings, who are just 14 months apart in age, saying, “We were best friends growing up. We did everything together because we were so close in age.”

According to Chase, his sister only “wants help on Savannah’s time.”

“She wants to be able to say she’s done it on her own,” the Gold Drop founder shared in a separate confessional.

Savannah then claimed that any time the two siblings do get the chance to connect, it’s “strictly performative” because there is allegedly “something he wants to gain.”

“There’s a lot of resentment,” the Good Girl RX founder continued. “So when things are said and done, I don’t forget it and I don’t know if it can ever be repaired, honestly.”

“Once I shut someone off, I shut ’em off,” she added.

Later in the episode, after the pair attended an intense family dinner with their siblings, grandparents and Chase’s girlfriend Jodi Laine Fournerat, he opened up about his strained relationship with Savannah.

“Whenever I see Savannah, I want to like have a relationship with her,” Chase told the cameras, after a scene showed the two siblings staring awkwardly at each other from across the dinner table.

“I love her to death, but Savannah doesn’t like me half the time,” he continued. “Everyone needs to get their issues out there, say what’s on their mind and move past it so it’s not awkward. Or, just don’t be around each other.”

Savannah and Chase aren’t the only ones dealing with tension.

As seen during the family dinner scene, Savannah and her grandpa, Harvey Hughes (who is Julie’s dad), butted heads over how she’s been handling getting her parents released from prison. Specifically, he took issue with Savannah being outspoken both about her parents’ incarceration struggles and conservative political beliefs.

“Public opinion has a lot to do with policy change and things that happen,” Harvey said. “How does this play into benefit [sic] mom and dad. That’s the bottom line for me. Or, does it?”

To that, Savannah said, “Well, it benefits in the end because all the right people are hearing about it within the Trump administration. It goes to lay out all the corruption that’s occurred and to build a stronger case for us.”

“How many people have to hear this, and it just keeps escalating, but we don’t see any action?” asked Harvey as Savannah said, “Well, it’s not a black and white answer. Everything’s happening in a way that it has to happen.”

As Harvey countered that the pardon could be done in a “millisecond” with “the sweep of a pen,” Savannah argued that it’s more complicated than that as they’re “asking the most powerful person in the world to make a decision like this.” (The pair were later pardoned by President Donald Trump and released from prison in May.)

Eventually, amid the frustration, Savannah silently mouthed to someone, “I hate him!”

This all comes amid much of the family’s estrangement from Lindsie Chrisley and Kyle Chrisley, both of whom Todd had through a previous marriage. Neither sibling is part of the new show.

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The Chrisleys: Back to Reality‘s two-night premiere event continues on Sept. 2 at 8 p.m. ET on Lifetime, with new episodes dropping on Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET through its Sept. 16 finale.