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Grayson Chrisley is not at his best after a traumatic car accident that left him hospitalized earlier this month, according to his big sister Savannah ChrisleyThe 25-year-old 16-year-old is ‘beaten up’ after the collision on Saturday November 12. “He’s fine,” Savannah, 25, said during the Tuesday November 29 episode of her Unlocked podcast. “He’s beaten up but he’s fine. It could have been worse, so thank the good Lord above.” Savannah’s mother Julia Chrisley agreed during the podcast that it could have been “a lot worse” for the teen.
Corresponding page sixwhile the episode aired on Tuesday, it was actually taped before the Chrisley family received the bombastic news of lengthy prison sentences for heads of families todd53, and Julie, 49. The Chrisley knows best stars were sentenced on November 21 to 12 and 7 years in prison, respectively, for tax evasion and bank fraud. They had previously been found guilty on all charges in June.
Savannah went on to explain that when Grayson first told her about the wreck, she thought it was no big deal. “When he told me, he said, ‘I hit someone in the back,'” Savannah said, adding that the teen “made it sound like a Fender Bender.” But when she examined the affected Ford F-150, she said it was “total” and found all the airbags had deployed. “It was bad,” revealed the podcast host. “When I showed up and saw it, my heart literally sank.”
Savannah said her brother was the first to raise the obvious after the accident. “With all that legal stuff you did, Grayson, the first thing he said was, ‘That was the last thing anyone needed,'” Savannah said. She also claimed her father, Todd, responded as a loving father, saying, “You’re alive, and you’re safe, and you’re fine.”
Grayson was taken to a local Nashville hospital after reportedly hitting a red Dodge truck, with the resulting damage causing the front end of the Ford F-150 to be completely smashed and the bumper to be hanging down, according to a report by the Nashville Police Department received from HollywoodLife.
The excitement of the accident appears to have only added to the drama surrounding the famous family, who were devastated by news of the Chrisley parents’ harsh sentences. “The whole family was in shock and still is,” a source said HollywoodLife ONLY after the judgments. “When they first learned the phrase, they were all hysterical and they all cried a lot. Nobody could believe that this was the result.”