Todd Chrisley is ‘making the best’ of his 12-year prison sentence and is in ‘such a better place’ now, according to daughter Lindsie

Todd Chrisley is ‘making the best’ of his 12-year prison sentence and is in ‘such a better place’ now, according to daughter Lindsie

• Lindsie Chrisley said her father Todd Chrisley is “making the best” of his time behind bars.

• Speaking on her podcast “The Southern Tea,” she said: “He is in such a better place.”

• The “Chrisley Knows Best” star began his 12-year sentence for bank fraud and tax evasion in January.

Todd Chrisley is “making the best” of his new life behind bars and has already “made great friends” with fellow inmates just two months into his sentence, according to the reality TV star’s eldest daughter, Lindsie Chrisley.

In the latest episode of her podcast, “The Southern Tea,” released Wednesday, the 33-year-old spoke with prison consultant Justin Paperny — who advised her father and stepmom Julie Chrisley — about how well Todd has been coping since he reported to his minimum-security prison in Florida in January.

He is currently carrying out a 12-year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institute Pensacola following his conviction for bank fraud and tax evasion.

“My last visit with my dad, I couldn’t stop telling him how great that he looked,” Lindsie said.

“He looks very, very good. I told him, I said, ‘Even your hair looks better a little bit longer and a little bit grayer,’” she continued.

Todd, 53, is usually seen sporting close-cropped dyed blond hair on the family’s now-canceled reality show, “Chrisley Knows Best.” His younger daughter Savannah, 25, recently spoke on her own podcast about how “weird” it was to see his natural hair color.

Speaking about her father’s overall mental state, Lindsie said: “I know for sure that he is in such a better place.”

“His spirits are great. He is really just embracing the process there and making the best of the process there with the people that are also there serving time with him,” she continued. “He’s made great friends. He talks about his friends there.”

Lindsie, who Todd fathered while married to ex-wife Teresa Terry, also added that her dad has been able to stop some bad habits during his short stint so far as “his nails aren’t completely bitten off.”

Lindsie’s comments come just a week after former “Dance Moms” star Abby Lee Miller, who served just over eight months behind bars for bankruptcy fraud between 2017 and 2018, told Entertainment Tonight that she thought the disgraced reality star would struggle to adjust to life behind bars.

“He’s very bougie,” she said of Todd, who once claimed on the couple’s USA Network reality show that he spends about $300,000 annually on clothing.

“He is not going to be able to handle, like, the soap and the towels,” Miller added.

The 57-year-old also said she warned Todd to “be careful” via a direct message she sent over Instagram before he and his wife reported to prison.

Todd and Julie were convicted in June 2022 of defrauding banks out of more than $30 million by providing fake financial statements to make them appear wealthier than they were and handed their sentences in November.

Todd received a longer sentence than his wife as prosecutors considered him the “mastermind” of the couple’s years-long tax and bank fraud scheme.

As a result, Julie was sentenced to seven years in prison at Federal Correctional Institution Marianna in Jackson County, Florida, but when the couple reported to the Bureau of Prisons on January 17 to begin their sentences, she instead reported to the Kentucky-based medical facility.

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