From blackmail to expired food and mold, this is what Todd Chrisley says its like living in prison

ATLANTA — For the first time, we’re hearing directly from Todd Chrisley about his experience of living in prison.

Chrisley and his wife Julie, mostly known for their reality TV series “Chrisley Knows Best,” were found guilty last year of conspiring to defraud banks and the IRS out of millions of dollars.

In an interview with News Nation last week, Chrisley spoke of being fed expired food, rats and squirrels roaming the prison, and black mold.

Chrisley even says the prison guards are trying to blackmail him.

“There was a photograph taken of me while I was sleeping and sent to my daughter, asking for $2,600 a month for my protection,” Chrisley said.

For months, Chrisley’s daughter Savannah has been talking about what she says are the deplorable conditions her parents have been living in on her weekly podcast. A family insider said they were “living in their hell hole” jails.

Chrisley told News Nation that inmates are being fed expired food and not getting enough nutrition.

“It is so disgustingly filthy. The food is literally — I’m not exaggerating — the food is dated. It’s out of date by, at minimum, a year. And they are literally starving these men to death here,” Chrisley said. “These men are getting, I don’t know, they are getting 1,000 calories a day.”

Chrisley said the only food he eats is what he’s able to get from the prison commissary.

“I eat tuna. I eat peanut butter. That’s where I get my protein. I eat like a pasta salad that I make. Pasta that I get in the commissary, and then I start over again doing the same thing the next week,” Chrisley said.