Julie Chrisley slammed claims that she faked her breast cancer diagnosis in the past.

During Wednesday’s episode of their family podcast, the reality TV personality, 52, addressed the ‘crazy’ accusations.

‘The one thing that I wanna talk about that was in the tabloids is they said that I faked my breast cancer, and that is the craziest thing,’ she said on Chrisley Confessions 2.0.

She added: ‘What people don’t realize is [that] I was diagnosed with breast cancer [in] March of 2012.’

Her husband Todd, 56, chimed in and said that he recalled how she received her diagnosis when she was 39 years old.

The couple — who were serving multi-year sentences prison after being convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion prior to Trump’s presidential pardon — noted that she received her cancer diagnosis ‘before this happened.’

Julie Chrisley slammed claims that she faked her breast cancer diagnosis in the past

During Wednesday’s episode of their family podcast, the reality TV personality, 52, addressed the ‘crazy’ accusations

She clarified that she ‘had already been diagnosed with breast cancer’ a decade before their trial and convictions.

‘I was completing my treatment at that time,’ she recalled about the summer of 2012, when they were grieving the loss of Todd’s father. ‘But the thing is that someone would think that I would ever fake a breast cancer diagnosis.’

She added: ‘I have had the pleasure of meeting so many amazing, wonderful women who have fought the breast cancer fight.’

Julie said that it was ‘so disrespectful’ towards them to accuse her of faking breast cancer.

‘Obviously, if that’s something I was gonna do, it didn’t help,’ she added. ‘Because I went to prison. But I went to prison 11 years later.’

She said ‘it didn’t even make sense’ for her to fake her cancer diagnosis because she was still convicted and sentenced to serve a (later-reduced) seven-year prison sentence in Lexington, Kentucky.

Her husband Todd was originally sentenced to 12 years in prison for his federal fraud charges but only served a portion of his sentence.

Todd and Julie served more than two years in prison for tax evasion, fraud and conspiracy before receiving a full presidential pardon in May 2025.

In late May, President Trump personally called their daughter Savannah Chrisley, 27, to inform her of his decision to grant the couple clemency.

‘The one thing that I wanna talk about that was in the tabloids is they said that I faked my breast cancer, and that is the craziest thing,’ she said on Chrisley Confessions 2.0

Her husband Todd, 56, chimed in and said that he recalled how she received her diagnosis when she was 39 years old

She clarified that she ‘had already been diagnosed with breast cancer’ a decade before their trial and convictions. ‘I was completing my treatment at that time,’ she recalled about the summer of 2012, when they were grieving the loss of Todd’s father

Todd and Julie served more than two years in prison for tax evasion, fraud and conspiracy before receiving a full presidential pardon in May 2025; pictured November 2019 in Nashville

Todd and Julie’s daughter Savannah, 27, also addressed the fake breast cancer claims and said she was ‘dumbfounded’ by the accusations on her Unlocked podcast last month

Todd and Julie’s daughter Savannah also addressed the fake breast cancer claims and said she was ‘dumbfounded’ by the accusations on her Unlocked podcast last month.

‘I was getting my coffee across the street this morning and I was looking through social media and I saw to where someone commented that my family was this fraud and we’re terrible human beings, XYZ, and how my mother faked her breast cancer diagnosis,’ she said on a June episode of her podcast.

‘Apparently, she faked her breast cancer diagnosis to avoid court proceedings, was what this individual said.’

In response to that accusation, she explained: ‘They weren’t federally or criminally charged until 2019. So, that right there completely debunks your whole theory.’

Savannah continued: ‘For someone to make an accusation that my mother lied about having breast cancer at the age of 39, there truly is a special place in hell for you. It’s that simple.’

This comes after Julie opened up about the poor conditions she endured while in prison for more than two years as she revealed the secret health battle she faced while behind bars.

During her 28 months behind bars, she developed asthma. She marveled while talking to ABC: ‘A month ago I was sitting in prison, dreading a summer with no air conditioning, and now here I am, home.’

Savannah also chimed in: ‘And that’s what mom’s living in, in conditions like that, with absolutely no air, and it can be 100 degrees inside the building.’

Savannah went on to say, ‘She literally said that she got physically sick because she got so hot.