Todd Chrisley: Lindsie got married due to ‘shame and guilt’ over premarital sex

Lindsie Chrisley confessed to her dad, Todd Chrisley, that her decision to have premarital sex led her into a doomed marriage.

During the latest episode of his “Chrisley Confessions” podcastTodd touched on his oldest daughter’s divorce from her ex-husband, Will Campbell, after she got married at 22.

“My daughter said to me on her podcast several weeks ago that she would have never married her husband had she not had sex with him before marriage,” Todd said.

“The shame and guilt that she had for doing that before marriage is why she married because she felt like that … that cleaned it up … It ended in divorce.”

According to the 53-year-old, Lindsie told him that if he hadn’t “been so hard” on her about premarital sex, she might have taken a “different route” and not jumped into marriage so quickly.

Lindsie, now 33, also briefly touched on her divorce while sitting down with her family for an episode of her “Coffee Convos” podcast last month.

She noted that her “desire to have a nuclear family” made her stay with Campbell longer than she should have.

Back in July 2021, Lindsie and Campbell announced they were going their separate ways after nine years together.

The pair, who share 9-year-old son Jackson, said they still “maintain the greatest respect [and] love for one another” as they work to “remain friends [and] be devoted parents to our son whom we both love very much.”

The former couple previously went through brief separations in 2014 and 2016. They hit a rough patch in 2019 after her formerly-estranged father accused Lindsie of having “extramarital relationships”with “The Bachelorette” alums Robby Hayes and Josh Murray.

While Lindsie described she found it “freeing” to announce her divorce, it also helped repair her relationship with Todd, whom she hadn’t spoken to in years.

However, many believed the father-daughter duo made amends due to Todd and his wife, Julie’s conviction on fraud charges earlier this year.

“After my divorce stuff had become public, my dad had posted, ‘I’m here, I love you, whatever’s going on in your life right now I see it,’” she said on her “Southern Tea” podcast in August.

In the post — whichleft Lindsie “shocked” — the patriarch said he was praying for her following the devastating news.

“I’m here. I love you. Whatever is going on in your life right now, I see it, and I’m working all things out for good, for you, my child,” hewrote on Instagramon July 28. “There is nothing you can do or have done that will make me ever love you less.”

Their feud started back in 2017 when the mother of one left her family’s reality show due to differences with her opinionated father.