Todd and Julie Chrisley break silence on their 'weird' reunion after 2 years apart while in prison

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Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley opened up about what it was like to see each other again after spending two years apart in prison.
The Chrisley Knows Best stars served time for bank fraud and tax evasion before receiving a pardon from Donald Trump on May 28.
Following their release, the couple finally reunited and are now sharing the emotional details in a new interview with ABC News Studios, where they reflected on seeing each other for the first time in years.
'I was a little nervous,' Julie, 52, said about her reunion with Todd during the interview.
'Just because, you know, you think, "Oh my gosh, I've been away this long." But then, when I saw him, it was as if no time had passed.'
Todd, 56, said that the idea of reuniting felt 'weird,' because he never really considered that he and Julie were 'apart.'
'And you know for me, it's just weird, because she was never away from me,' he explained.
'Even the whole time we were apart. She was with me every second, every breath that I took.'
Todd continued: 'I mean, when I saw her, I was grateful to wrap my arms around her, but it was just more like, "I'm home."'
Julie added that there was 'laughter and tears' at their reunion, which was filmed.
Todd chimed in, 'A lot of that came after the cameras were not on.'
And after so much time apart, the first thing Todd and Julie did together was have dinner with their family.
Todd said, 'You know, we get to start over,' before saying that sleeping in his own bed again was 'heaven.'
Both of them agreed that being able to shower at the leisure, without shower shoes, was thrilling.
The Chrisley Knows Best stars sat down for an interview with ABC News Studios to dish about what it was like to see each other after so long. Seen here April 2, 2017
'It was almost like your first sexual encounter. That good,' Todd joked.
But the most emotional part of coming home was reuniting with their daughter Chloe, 12.
'You know, even though we had gotten to see each other [during visitations], it's not the same as when you're home,' Julie said.
'On our way home, she was literally watching on her phone — she was tracking where we were — to know how close I was. So I think it was just — it was a special moment,' she continued.
Todd also recently shared the thoughts running through his mind when he and his wife were sentenced.
'I remember going in and that night, I was so angry with God and that night when the lights went out, I literally cried myself to sleep because it's the first time Julie and I have ever been away from each other since we had been married,' the Chrisley patriarch told Lara Trump.
'I'd never not been in that house when my kids woke up in the morning or when they went to bed at night,' Chrisley recalled.
He was sentenced to 12 years - which was later knocked down to 10 - and served time at the Pensacola Federal Prison Camp in Florida, while wife Julie was imprisoned three states away at the Federal Medical Center Lexington in Kentucky.
'And I just said, God, why?' Chrisley continued. 'I've tried to be a loyal and faithful servant.'
'Why are you allowing this to happen? You know these things are not true,' he said.
Prosecutors pushed that the Chrisleys had used false documents and exaggerated financial statements to secure more than $30 million in loans, which they used to fund their lavish lifestyle, which was on full display on their reality TV show that went on for 10 seasons.
'And in my dream, God came to me and he said that I have planted you where I need you and when you leave, they will rise,' Chrisley recounted.
'I look back on that dream now and I now understand when he said "when you leave they will rise" because they're rising through President Trump,' the former reality TV star said. 'So I am grateful for that.'