Lindsie Chrisley is sharing an update on her brother Kyle Chrisley.
During a recent appearance on the Cate & Ty Break It Down podcast, the Chrisley Knows Best alum, 35, delved deep into her family history and shared how Kyle was doing while opening up about how their father Todd Chrisley’s divorce from their biological mother, Teresa Terry, affected them.
Lindsie explained that her brother was keeping away from any “substance” use as he’s done in the past.
“As far as I know, he’s sober,” she said.
“My dad would probably say today, Lindsie handled the divorce much differently. Lindsie handled the divorce much differently than Kyle,” she continued of how the separation hit her and Kyle in opposite ways.
“You could tell all the issues that Kyle was having, because they were outwardly expressed, like whether it be an anger or trouble in school or substance or like whatever those things were,” she added.
Contrary to Kyle, Lindsie said, “I just kind of sucked it up and was like, this is my life and I’m just supposed to accept it.” Instead, she tried not to have “feelings about it” and refrained from talking about it, thinking that denial wouldn’t make the problems “real.”
PEOPLE has reached out to Kyle for comment.
Though she’s come a long way, she can’t help but admit that her biological mother has “missed out on so much in life.”
“I had to accept through therapy that because she missed out on those things, she can never get them back,” she explained. “[The] relationship that I think that she longs for today is something that she forwent then.”
She continued, “Those are just things that once it’s gone, the time’s gone. It’s like I’m never going to be seven again, never going to be 13 and starting my period. Or going to my first high school dance with a date and going to pick out dresses with your mom and all those things that you missed out on.”
The relationships between members of Chrisley family have been complicated over the years. Todd is father to Lindsie and Kyle, both of whom he welcomed with Terry, as well as Chase, Savannah and Grayson Chrisley, whom he shares with his current wife, Julie Chrisley.
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In October 2023, Savannah first confirmed the family’s estrangement from Kyle and Lindsie on the Oldish podcast.
“My two oldest siblings are from my dad’s first marriage,” Savannah explained, per Parade. “Over the years, I feel like there’s been a lot of anger and resentment just over the fact that my parents were together [and] theirs weren’t. Then when the show [Chrisley Knows Best] came about, I feel like there was jealousy. There was a whole bunch of things that were involved.”
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