Take, for example, a 2023Facebookpost that the singer made simply to display appreciation for his partner.
She saved me in one of the darkest times of my life.
“This woman changed my life.
She literally changed the way everything works for me and how I function as human.
She made me step my game up in all facets,” he wrote.
The couple kept in touch, and before long, Bunnie XO was back on the market.
“They split, and I’m not going to act like I shot my shot.
“It’s a white trash love story,” Jelly Roll said on the same podcast.
“When I hugged her, I could just feel the genuineness of her.
He also had a child on the way (son Noah Buddy DeFord) with another previous girlfriend.
“Dude, I’m broke.
I can’t afford the lawyer.
I can’t afford anything.
What am I, gonna put the kid in the van?
“And Bunnie’s like, ‘I’ll help you.’
So Bunnie bankrolled the whole s**t. And she never talks about that.
It’s a true story.”
“Just being with Jay, I wanted to be a better example for his daughter.
Because we ended up getting full custody of Bailee in January of 2017.”
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He quit cocaine a few years later, but has yet to fully quit weed or alcohol.
The singer also goes to support meetings when he is struggling.
“My plan was never to be 60.
It was to be, like, 55.
But now I’m like, ‘Well, I’d like to see my 60s.’
You know what I mean?
And that really lit it up.”
Jelly Roll lost about 70 pounds in the five months he spent training for a 5K race.
“I’ve been really kicking ass, man.
I’m doing two to three miles a day, four to six days a week.
I’m doing 20 to 30 minutes in the sauna, six minutes in a cold plunge every day.
I’m eating healthy right now,” he toldPeoplea month before the race.
“I was thinking, I plan on losing another 100, 100-and-something [pounds].
They suggested I go to a meat processor or truck stop to get my actual weight.
While some of these posts are heartbreaking, others are incredibly uplifting.
He does these on birthdays, Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, and sometimes just at random.
“She taught me to not just weather the storm but to dance in the rain.
She taught me how to build a deep rooted friendship in our relationship that supersedes everything.
I’ve never been moved more by a story than the story of my wife.
“Watching what you have built on social media and with your podcast is amazing.
The “Dumb Blonde” podcast has become so popular that Bunnie XO retired from sex work in 2023.
