Fans have watched Savannah's Chrisley's relationship with Nic Kerdiles unfold on USA's Chrisley
Knows Best, but there still may be a lot you don't know about this couple. Here's the truth
about Savannah Chrisley's relationship with Nic Kerdiles.
Like many TV stars, Savannah had her pick of suitors. The gorgeous and talented self-starter
isn't short on confidence, but when it comes to meeting a new guy, it's sometimes easier
for everyone to do so from the comfort of their own phones. It makes sense, then, that
Savannah and Nic met in the most modern way: online.
As People reported, Savannah and Nic first started talking on Instagram and, by November
2017, they were dating. In January 2018, Savannah made her relationship Instagram-official,
writing a sweet caption for Nic's birthday that said,
"It's kinda crazy how God works! After spending months of focusing on ME...you came along."
She went on to say that she was so grateful for his, quote, "selfless, patient, kind,
and loving heart." At the start, it was all sunshine and roses for these two lovebirds.
While Savannah's relationship with Nic seemed like magic from the start, she had actually
gone through a pretty tough breakup not that long before she and Nic got together. As E!
News reported, Savannah had broken up with her boyfriend of four months, Luke Kennard,
in August of 2017, and she got together with Nic in November of that same year. Savannah
claimed she knew she made the right choice to end it with Luke.
In an interview with E!'s Daily Pop, she admitted that she was grateful the relationship ended
when it did, saying,
"You live and you learn. I've learned a lot of things that I don't want and that's what
relationships are for. You date people to figure out what you want and don't want, and
thankfully, I dodged a bullet on the last one."
Yikes. But hey, it all seemed to work out for the best, considering it led her to her
next love.
Savannah may be a successful young woman, but she's still young, and with youth comes
a lot of hard lessons. For her, one of those lessons was learning how to trust someone
again after being let down in the past, and Savannah admitted that trusting Nic took her
a while. Though she didn't specify exactly what went down between her and her ex, she
did say that he had caused her to mistrust people. On the HollywoodLife podcast, Savannah
explained,
"Whenever trust is broken, it takes a while to let someone else back in. I made Nic suffer
at the very beginning for a while just from the hurt that I experienced before, and it's
not fair."
Eventually, Savannah learned to take Nic for his word.
Perhaps one of the biggest reasons why Savannah and Nic are such a great match is because
they're both career-focused. In addition to starring on Chrisley Knows Best, she's launched
her own clothing line, and she and her brother, Chase Chrisley, even have their own spinoff
show, Growing Up Chrisley. As for Nic, he's a professional hockey player, so they're a
busy couple.
In an interview with Us Weekly, Savannah explained that she and Nic were on the "same page" when
it comes to their values. She said,
"Our careers come first. His comes first and mine comes first and then you have each other,
which is great at our age."
Savannah went on to gush about Nic, saying,
"[He is] so supportive of what I do, and just wants what's best for me, whether it's traveling
for work, the next opportunity."
If you've ever seen an episode of Chrisley Knows Best, you're well aware of the fact
that patriarch Todd Chrisley takes his role as head of the family very seriously. The
husband and father has rules for pretty much everything, especially when it comes to who
his daughter dates.
"Todd, in usual Todd fashion, is going over the top."
But surprisingly enough, when he learned about Savannah's relationship with Nic, he hopped
on board pretty quickly.
In addition to telling Us Weekly in May 2018 that he approved of the couple's relationship,
the head of the Chrisley family also made his feelings clear when he took to Instagram
in June 2018 to welcome Nic into the family, saying,
"When you've done everything you can to set [Nic] up to fail and he still passes with
flying colors you gotta say 'God, if this is your plan, let me step out while you step
up.' It's with pride that I say 'Welcome to the Chrisley's, [Nic]."
To avoid confusion, the patriarch clarified his caption, writing,
"This is NOT an engagement, it's a welcoming to our family while we see what [God's] plan
is."
Rules aside, the Chrisley family was team Nic all the way.
Savannah may come from a traditional, southern family, but that doesn't mean she wants an
old-fashioned relationship with old-school gender roles. Instead, she's happy to focus
on her career, and has said that she and Nic have a very equal partnership and support
each other in all their endeavors.
During her HollywoodLife interview, Savannah explained that Nic would sometimes do more
to help her out than vice versa. She said,
"There are a lot of times, especially now during the off-season, he's doing a heck of
a lot more for me than I am [for] him, and he's trying to make my life easier while knowing
that I'm busy...It's very refreshing to know that I don't have to do everything. We're
at a great place. It's the first time I've been in a relationship to where it's truly
50/50."
An equal partnership makes all the difference and clearly makes Savannah feel valued.
From her first Instagram post making her relationship with Nic official, Savannah has seemed to
be totally head-over-heels in love with him. However, she may have gotten a sign from beyond
that Nic isn't the one.
In 2018, while Savannah and Nic were already going strong, Savannah and her father appeared
on an episode of Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry, and the advice Henry gave for Savannah's
love life had her in shock. Henry said,
"Regardless of who we do or don't have in our life in the present moment, they are giving
me a name to keep in mind. It doesn't mean it's one soulmate, it could just be a potential
person. There's a reference to a James that's coming in."
"And they're just having me bring up, like, think on that situation a little more."
After that, it was clear both Chrisleys knew who he was talking about, Celebrity Big Brother
star James Maslow, and neither could contain their surprise.
There aren't many opportunities in life where average couples get to star in a music video
together, but Savannah and Nic aren't exactly an average couple. She starred in country
singer Matt Stell's music video alongside Nic for the hit song "Prayed for You."
As if the music video alone isn't enough, Savannah took to Instagram to showcase the
video, and wrote a seriously sweet caption about Nic to go along with it, saying,
"Nic is the one I prayed for but I just wasn't ready for in the past. God put a few relationships
in my life to teach me and to help me grow but they were never meant to be forever."
Savannah added that if it weren't for all her bad relationships, she "could have never
appreciated Nic."
Romance isn't dead after all!
As happy as Savannah and Nic have appeared, the two aren't without their struggles. Even
though they have successful careers and more money than most couples their age, they have
had one pretty big obstacle in their way for most of their relationship: distance. Nic's
hockey career takes him all over for games, which means he and Savannah have to spend
more time apart than they'd like. However, Savannah told Entertainment Tonight that it
was all worth it. She explained,
"You make it work. If it matters, you make it work."
And even though the distance is tricky, Savannah added that because they are both so career-oriented,
they don't mind it as much. She said,
"We're very independent. He's always been very encouraging of my career, and I've been
encouraging of his, so that's been the most important thing for us, that we both succeed
separately and then we can succeed together."
When you're in love, you just know, right? Apparently, that's how Savannah felt when
Nic proposed to her a little over two years after they started dating. That might sound
like they moved fast to some people, but Savannah made it clear she had no doubts when she said
yes. Nevertheless, she was still surprised by the proposal. As People reported, Nic proposed
to Savannah on Christmas Eve 2019, and she was totally shocked. She explained,
"I walk outside [the house] and it's all lit up! And Nic's family is standing on one side,
my family and friends are standing on the other, and then I just start freaking out
because I'm like, 'This isn't really about to happen.'"
It did happen, and if it didn't feel real enough, Nic gave Savannah a whopping five-carat
engagement ring, which definitely sealed the deal.
While some might view an engagement as the first step to that happily-ever-after fairytale
ending, Savannah will be the first one to tell you that that simply isn't true. The
young entrepreneur may have gotten engaged to her boyfriend, but she ended up calling
off the engagement and wedding not too long afterwards.
In June 2020, Savannah explained on the Chrisley Confessions podcast that she and Nic had postponed
their wedding. She told her dad in the episode that she had gotten some marriage advice from
a friend that had really changed her perspective. Savannah explained,
"[My friend] said, 'When you get married, the good things in your relationship become
great and the bad things in your relationship become worse.' And I truly sat on that and
I thought about it and there was just so much that Nic and I needed to work through."
"It's so easy to be in the honeymoon phase of things, and then when the real world hit,
we weren't prepared for it."
Savannah told People magazine that all relationships are work, and hers was no exception. She added,
"It's not always the easiest, but it's a work in progress. Communication is key and just
having that respect for one another to know your boundaries and what you can and cannot
do."
Though Savannah broke off her engagement to Nic, the couple remained in a relationship.
In fact, they might still get married one day, just not as soon as they had originally
planned. On Chrisley Confessions, Savannah revealed,
"There was a lot of pressure because we got engaged, it was public and everyone expected
a wedding."
However, that wasn't the only reason she and Nic postponed their wedding. She went on to
say,
"We both realized that things moved way too fast and we needed to go back to dating. I
just knew we had to work on things on a different level. It's 2020 and you know what, it's OK
not to follow the guidelines and the whole time frame that everyone follows."
"I mean, what is Savannah doing getting liberated before a wedding, I mean that's s--- you do
after a divorce."
Though Savannah's future with Nic may be uncertain, there's one thing she's absolutely sure of,
she wants to have children. In fact, in addition to all of her relationship drama, Savannah
has also had to deal with some health issues, including a diagnosis that could change her
family planning timeline.
When Savannah spoke with Entertainment Tonight in July 2020 about Season 8 of Chrisley Knows
Best, she described yet another struggle fans would see her go through on-screen. She explained,
"I talk about struggling with endometriosis. I turned 23 in August, but I have a doctor
telling me, 'Alright, you need to finish having kids by the time you're 30.' So I'm like,
well if I want to have four kids I better start now, and so that's not happening. So
we talk about my different options, like freezing eggs."
Savannah further explained that they touch on some "real life issues" in Season 8, adding,
"At the end of the day we go through them, but at the end of the day we find some way
to laugh through them, cry through them."
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