Savannah Chrisley Hugs Chloe Chrisley After Nashville School Shooting: 'Never Been More Grateful'

Savannah Chrisley is shaken, like many in the Nashville area following Monday morning's shooting at The Covenant School.

The Chrisley Knows Best star, 25, took to Instagram on Monday to share that niece Chloe Chrisley, 10, was safe after the elementary school shooting where three 9-year-old children and three adults were killed.

"Thank you so much for all the messages checking on Chloe. She is good, she's safe. I feel such a level of guilt being able to say she's okay. I am so beyond grateful, but there are parents today who don't get to bring their child home," she shared tearfully in a video on her Instagram Story.

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"This has really affected our community here in Nashville. It's not far from where I live," she continued. "It's just awful. I don't know how many lives it's going to take for there to change, and it's heartbreaking. My thoughts and prayers are with all these families, all the kids who have been affected by it."

Savannah admitted that "it really just hits different when it could have been your child."

"I saw the news this morning and I completely broke down. I rushed to her school to get her and that hug when she was coming out of school — she told me, 'Ow, you're hugging me too hard,' " she continued.

"It was the greatest feeling in the world and my thoughts and prayers are with the families that are hurting today. Just remember to hug the little ones a little tighter tonight, thank God, and pray, pray, pray."

The podcaster took over as the primary guardian of her brother Grayson Chrisley as well as Chloe, after a federal judge sentenced her father Todd, 53, and mother Julie, 50, in November to a combined 19 years in prison for tax fraud.

"It takes A LOT of energy to be negative. I choose to laugh. I choose to smile. I choose to love. I choose to learn. I choose to be patient. I choose to be kind. I choose to find my hope in God. ❤️," wrote Savannah alongside an Instagram tribute dedicated to the youngest members of her family shared earlier Monday.