Todd Chrisley will never forget the moment he learned he and his wife Julie Chrisley were being pardoned by President Donald Trump.

It had been nearly two and a half years since the Chrisley Knows Best couple had started their separate prison sentences after being convicted of fraud and tax crimes.

“I had a staff member that came to me and said, ‘You’ve just been pardoned,'” Todd, who along with Julie had pleaded not guilty, recalled during a May 30 press conference. “And I just looked at him. And he says, ‘No really, you’ve been pardoned. It’s in the news.'”

In fact, it was all over the news. However, Todd called his daughter Savannah Chrisley—who’d been fighting for her mom and dad’s release—just to make sure.

“I walked up to call her,” he continued, “and she said, ‘It’s true! It’s true!'”

They headed straight home to Nashville so Todd could reunite with his wife Julie, who was released from Federal Medical Center Lexington in Kentucky that same day.

“They both just burst into tears,” their son Chase told Entertainment Tonight May 29 about the reunion. “My dad wrapped his arms around my mom, and I don’t think he’s let go—I don’t think he’ll ever let go.”

And they weren’t the only ones shedding happy tears.

“It was a beautiful moment,” Chase added. “I don’t think it really hit me until they were both home, and I got to see my mom and dad hug each other and embrace each other. We were all hugging each other and crying. It was just a beautiful moment and answered prayers, for sure. I cannot even describe it, the amount of joy that I felt.”

However, Todd admitted it took him a while to fully believe what had just happened.

“I woke up the first morning and I was looking around. I’m like, ‘This is really real. I’m home,'” he said at the press conference. “I was grateful for our family to be all back in the same room, to be together, to share a meal together, to pray together and to know that we’re still in the fight together.”