Returning to prison crossed Todd Chrisley’s mind after seeing wife Julie Chrisley with her natural hair upon his release.
“I’m not going to lie. When I first saw you, when I got out of that car, I started thinking about going back,” Todd, 56, said during the Wednesday, July 23, episode of their “Chrisley Confessions 2.0” podcast. “But then I thought, let me embrace this. This is a moment.”
He added, “It was a rough moment because I’d never seen you dark in my life. Julie, 30 years, I’ve never seen you with dark hair.”
Julie, 52, was appalled by her husband’s statement.
“Are you kidding me right now?” she said. “Well, I know that, Todd, but I didn’t have any choice.”
Julie Chrisley is blonde again following her presidential pardon from prison. Chrisley, 52, was seen sporting her signature golden locks while posing with two fans in a video posted via TikTok earlier this week. Both Julie and her husband, Todd Chrisley, were released from federal prison on May 28 after being pardoned by President Donald […]
Todd and Julie spent 28 months in prison after being convicted of tax evasion and bank and wire fraud charges in 2022. The couple were pardoned by President Donald Trump and released from prison in May. Upon her release, Julie was photographed with gray and brown hair instead of her usual blonde.
“For people who were asking about that picture, when I went to prison, my hair was blonde, but it had a lot of low lights in it,” Julie explained, noting that she was able to get “really good” highlights at the salon in prison.
Julie Chrisley Courtesy of Kat Ramirez/Fox News Digital
However, the girl who did her hair was released before her.
“I got there in January, right?” Julie recalled. “She left in March. So, she did my hair one time before she left.”
When her hair started growing out, it was “so gray,” and she decided to use brown box dye to cover her roots.
“I did that for a long time,” Julie said. “I did that for probably a year and a half or so, maybe. Like I’ve said, in my mind, I was like, ‘OK, I’m going home in August of [2026].’ So, I’m like, ‘You know what? I’m not going to color my hair anymore.’ I’m just going to let it grow.”
Her thought process was that by the time she got out of prison in 2026, her hair wouldn’t have any more brown dye because it was so grown out.
“In my mind, that’s what I was going to do. I was just letting it grow,” Julie continued. “Everybody — even my friends there were like, ‘You need to do something with your hair.’”
Todd responded, “So even these chicks in prison acknowledged you need to do something with that situation.”
Julie concluded with a message to listeners: “It was really hard to be [a] good blonde in prison.”
