Alice Marie Johnson Shares Advice for Chrisleys After Release: 'Once You Experience Prison, Your Life Is Never the Same'

Alice Marie Johnson, a criminal justness betterment advocate, is sharing immoderate proposal for Todd and Julie Chrisley pursuing their merchandise from prison.

Johnson, who stood beside President Donald Trump erstwhile he called nan Chrisley children to pass them he was giving their parents a full pardon connected Tuesday, May 27, told NewsNation Live connected Thursday, May 29, she would counsel nan Chrisleys to "soak successful their state and their family time."

"I cognize that they're anxious to get retired present and commencement fighting for these group who they near behind, too," she said. "But don't hide astir your family time. Let your state conscionable soak in."

Johnson, who herself was pardoned by President Trump, 78, successful 2020, said she envisions nan Chrisley Knows Best mates arsenic "a unit to beryllium reckoned pinch successful nan criminal justness betterment space" moving forward.

"Now, erstwhile you acquisition prison, your life is ne'er nan same," she said. "So I'm expecting awesome things from them. But I would conscionable say, bask your family for a moment."

Johnson besides addressed whether aliases not she believes nan Chrisleys were pardoned because they were celebrities, saying that successful her sentiment they had their biggest advocator — girl Savannah Chrisley — to convey astir of all.

"I'm going to opportunity that if they did not person a girl for illustration Savannah who was retired location fighting for them, they would not person been pardoned," she said. "The personage portion really didn't play a domiciled successful this. This is simply a young female whose parents were gone."

Todd and Julie were some released from abstracted national prisons connected Wednesday, May 28, pursuing their pardon from President Trump.

Savannah shared a photograph connected her Instagram Stories connected Thursday, May 29, of her parents reuniting for nan first clip successful 2 years. "Reunited and it feels truthful good!" she captioned nan snap.

Todd and Julie were indicted successful April 2019 and found guilty successful 2022, reporting to prison successful January 2023 to service their mixed 19-year sentence, which was later reduced. They person been appealing their lawsuit ever since.

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PEOPLE exclusively announced earlier this period that nan Chrisleys — minus Todd and Julie, who were expected to still beryllium down bars — were getting an all-new docuseries astatine Lifetime.

With Todd and Julie now retired of prison, a root pinch knowledge of nan accumulation told PEOPLE that "the show is still filming and will proceed to, though the family's business is evolving rapidly."

The root added, "No 1 knew this pardon would hap and nan extremity is to screen their lives successful existent time, but things person importantly changed for them each and everyone successful nan family, arsenic good arsenic producers, are trying to fig it retired and show their authentic story."