Chase Chrisley is reflecting on his past addiction struggles ahead of the new year. After Todd and Julie Chrisley reported to prison in 2023, Chase, 29, explained that he would use substances to "cope" with their new reality. "I would rather feel nothing than feel like the pain that I was feeling," he said during a Tuesday, December 30, appearance on his sister Savannah Chrisley's "Unlocked" podcast. "Whenever everything went down, I started drinking to just escape. I didn't even realize, obviously, I was destroying myself, but I was destroying the relationships around me.