Savannah Chrisley is sharing about her attempted suicide at age '15 or 16,' right before filming the first season of 'Chrisley Knows Best.'
"It really was, in a way, an acting gig. We knew we had to show up, we had to be funny, that's what we did," Savannah, 25, explained."When we started... it was pitched to us that it would be a reality show. And then it quickly changed. I think people, production companies, networks, took advantage of my dad's ability to approach a situation with humor."
"Growing up the way that I grew up and how everything was this picture-perfect image and I had an older brother who struggled with mental illness, addiction, all of those things, and then I was on TV at 16 and I was being told what I needed to look like, what I needed to be," she recalled."It was like it created two [versions] of me. There was someone I wanted to be and then there was someone I was being forced to be.
Savannah explained that she still deals with mental health issues in her day-to-day life, sharing,"I definitely suffer from high-functioning depression." Savannah explained that memories of the experience are still blurry, but she knew that she didn't want to admit to what really happened, and when she woke up in the hospital she
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