Savannah Chrisley and Robert Shiver, Nic Kerdiles Jason Davis/Getty Images ; Paul Archuleta/Getty Images
Savannah Chrisley had recently started seeing now-boyfriend Robert Shiver when she found out that her former fiancé, Nic Kerdiles, had died at age 29.
“Robert and I started dating [on] August 17, 2023, and Nic passed away later in September,” Savannah, 27, recalled to People in an interview published on Sunday, February 23, noting she was out of town visiting one of her parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, in prison following their respective fraud convictions. “When you go and visit, you don’t have phones. You’re not allowed any electronics. Before I went in, I just texted Robert, and I just said, ‘Nic died.’ That’s all I said.”
She added, “Keep in mind, we had been dating a month and when that happened, Robert reached out to my publicist, Alexa, and my best friend Tyler, and was like, ‘Hey guys, how do I show up for her? I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what to do. But just let me know if there’s anything I can do.’”
According to Savannah, Shiver, 40, immediately hopped on a plane to Florida to be by her side.
The Chrisley family is honoring the memory of Savannah Chrisley’s ex-fiancé, Nic Kerdiles, after his sudden death. “Heaven gained the most beautiful angel today … I miss you and I love you. I’ll forever save our last messages of ‘I love you,’” Savannah, 26, wrote via Instagram Story on Saturday, September 23. “Please send me a […]
“He was there when I got out of visitation and he sent me a text and said, ‘Hey, I just want to let you know I’m here. I got you guys food, and I just want to get you home,’” Savannah recalled. “And he took me and [my siblings Greyson and Chloe] home. I had pictures of that day of him and Chloe playing rock, paper, scissors on the plane. When we got home I said, ‘I just want to go to where it happened. I just have to see it for myself.’”
News broke in September 2023 that Kerdiles died after a fatal motorcycle crash. (Savannah and Kerdiles dated on and off from 2018 to 2021. The former hockey player is survived by his parents and his sister.)
Once Savannah returned home to Nashville, she asked for Shiver to escort her to Kerdiles’ crash site.
Savannah Chrisley and Nic Kerdiles Paul Archuleta/Getty Images
“When we went to leave, we were standing at the stop sign, and Robert walks up next to me, and he goes, ‘Hey, do you mind if I say a prayer for Nic and his family?’” Savannah recalled. “In that moment, I was like, ‘This is the type of person you want to spend the rest of your life with.’ Someone who shows up for you, and shows up for you well, in situations like that.”
Savannah Chrisley’s search for The One has included public breakups — some of which played out on Chrisley Knows Best — and under-the-radar romances. Following her broken engagement to Nic Kerdiles in 2020, Chrisley jumped back into the dating pool. She was briefly linked to country singer Matt Snell in 2022, but it didn’t grow […]
Savannah confirmed in September 2023 that she was dating Shiver, later telling Us Weekly that their romance was going “great.”
“I’m so thankful to just have such a great person in my life,” Savannah exclusively told Us in October 2023. “This is a relationship that I’m like, ‘I want to protect and love and even who knows where it’s going to end up,’ but even if it [didn’t end] up as The One, I am so grateful to have met [him].”
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