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Kailyn Lowry is spilling the tea, or coffee, about her friendship with Lindsie Chrisley.
After the Teen Mom alum hosted their podcast Coffee Convos solo for nearly two months following Chrisley’s May DUI arrest, Lowry revealed that during that period, she almost stepped away from their friendship and the project for good.
“I quit Coffee Convos podcast,” she said on the Aug. 26 episode of the Sarah Fraser Show. “I said, ‘Lindsie and I agreed that I would do the five weeks on my own. I’ll do the ads. I’ll do the content part of it as well.’ I ended up doing six weeks. I had told her in the midst of all that that I was done.”
“I wasn’t going to do it, not because of what we were going through, but we weren’t communicating,” she continued. “We weren’t getting together. We weren’t doing our part to continue making the podcast successful.”
The former reality star—who shares Elliott, 16, with ex-boyfriend Jo Rivera; Lincoln, 12, with JaviMarroquin; Lux, 9, and Creed, 6, with Chris Lopez; as well as Rio, 3, and 2-year-old twins Valley and Verse with ex Elijah Scott—emphasized that she was also juggling several responsibilities at the time.
“It was just so half-assed, and then also our lack of communication,” she recalled. “I was just like, ‘I’m done. I have seven kids. I have a lot of stuff going on. I can’t handle this anymore.'”
She and the Chrisley Knows Best alum—who returned to the podcast during their July 16 episode to further detail her absence—decided to work on their professional relationship.
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“Ultimately, we decided to work it out,” Lowry explained. “We really are a dysfunctional pair of sisters. I had said that at one point. I was like, ‘This is so hard because I love Lindsie so much, but then this piece is not working, making a toxic cycle that just kept going and going.'”
“We have so much love for our audience and everything that we’ve built,” she added. “It would be a really hard pill to swallow if we ended the Coffee Convos podcast.”
In fact, Lowry, 34, admitted she isn’t sure where they’d be if they bid farewell to the podcast, which they started in 2017.
“It would simultaneously have ended our friendship, I think, inadvertently,” she added. “It wouldn’t be intentional. I just don’t think our friendship would have survived that as well.”
And it wasn’t easy when she and Chrisley—the eldest of Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley‘s five children—decided to focus on rebuilding their relationship.
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“Once we get it out in the open, we can start over, and we forget about all of that,” Lowry noted. “It was a challenging few months for us, for sure.”
For her part, Chrisley, 36, has shared insight into her legal troubles following her arrest, detailing her plans to fight the charges of attempting to elude police, improper passing, DUI, reckless driving and speeding
“I got pulled over,” she told TMZ in May, “speeding past a car on a two-lane road because they almost hit an animal and I was trying to miss hitting them and whatever the animal was.”
Although Lowry and Chrisley’s friendship hit some major roadblocks along the way, their bond has been stronger than ever. Keep reading for more beloved BFF pairings.
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