Reality TV star Todd Chrisley said he and his wife, Julie, have a new mission after being pardoned by President Trump: exposing corruption in the justice system.

In his first public comments since his release this week, the real estate tycoon told reporters that his new series would deal in part with justice and prison reform, citing his own experience as well as the “horrific stories” he heard from other prisoners at the Federal Prison Camp Pensacola.

“We’re blessed to have our family back and we’re blessed to be coming back to television, because we do have a much bigger story to tell now than we ever had before,” Mr. Chrisley said at a Friday press conference in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Chrisleys, stars of the now-canceled USA Network show “Chrisley Knows Best,” received presidential pardons Tuesday for their 2022 convictions on charges related to conspiracy to defraud community banks of more than $30 million. They have maintained their innocence.

“Do I have any remorse? I would have remorse if it was something that I did,” Mr. Chrisley told reporters.

Mr. Chrisley, 56, appeared at the press conference with the couple’s daughter, Savannah, while Mrs. Chrisley, 52, remained at home with their 12-year-old granddaughter, Chloe.

“She’s at home right now with Chloe right now and Chloe will not let her go,” Mr. Chrisley said.

Savannah Chrisley, 27, said the family is already filming a docuseries for Lifetime that will feature the inside story of their legal saga, including the moment Todd and Julie first saw each other Wednesday after each serving two-and-a-half years in prison.

“We had just wrapped up filming for all intents and purposes, and then we get the call that they had been pardoned, so we picked right back up,” she said. “And we’re excited. I think this new show is going to give people a look into the trial and things that we went through. We’re going to set the record straight.”

As Mr. Chrisley put it, “we started filming literally the night we got home.”

They both thanked Mr. Trump and Alice Johnson, the White House pardon czar who herself had her sentence commuted by Mr. Trump in 2018, and said they look forward to working with William Marshall, the newly sworn-in director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

“I hope to work with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and Billy Marshall and help them expose the corruption, because he has vowed to hold people accountable,” said Savannah Chrisley. “So I am extremely excited for that, to work with some organizations, put bills in front of Congress, especially for women who are incarcerated.”

Mr. Chrisley spoke extensively of his experience in the minimum-security prison, saying he met some “wonderful men” there who were victims of prosecutorial injustice.

“I will continue to fight for all the guys that I dealt with and that I was blessed to be with at FPC Pensacola,” Mr. Chrisley said. “I will continue to expose the injustices that go on there and throughout the Bureau of Prisons.”

He said he felt “numb” after learning from a prison staffer that he had been pardoned, but after about 10 minutes, “all I could think of was the guys left behind because I had such wonderful relationships.”

“There were only 317 men at our camp, but they had lined up shouting when I was walking out,” Mr. Chrisley said. “They were saying ’Don’t forget us, don’t forget us,’ and my commitment is to them that I will never forget them.”

Mr. Chrisley was sentenced to 12 years in prison and Mrs. Chrisley received a seven-year sentence, which she began at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Both entered the prison system in January 2023.

Savannah Chrisley said the biggest misconception surrounding the case is that “I either paid for a pardon or slept for a pardon,” not seeing how hard she worked behind the scenes to free her parents.

“If people knew the countless hours and the money and the time that I spent going to D.C.,” she said. “Literally without a meeting scheduled, I just got on a plane and said, ’I’m going to be in the right room at the right time and meet the right people.’ I fought hard and I was exhausted and I begged for meetings. I was never too good to ask.”

She said people assume that, “Oh, you’re a celebrity, you’re White, you have money, that we got an upper hand, but we didn’t.”

“I had to fight. I was relentless, and that’s how it happened,” she said. “Finally people listened.”

• Mallory Wilson contributed to this story.

• Valerie Richardson can be reached at vrichardson@washingtontimes.com.