Bunnie XO reveals how she helped fund Jelly Roll’s career: ‘I was turning tricks to pay our bills’
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Podcaster Bunnie XO has reflected on the years spent supporting singer Jelly Roll as he worked toward country music success, revealing the personal sacrifices made to help build their life together.
She also shared new details about the difficulties that strained the marriage and ultimately led to the couple's separation. According to court documents, Jelly Roll filed for divorce on May 18, citing irreconcilable differences.
Bunnie XO says she always Jelly Roll ‘a little more’
In a recent episode of her 'Dumb Blonde Podcast,' Bunnie revealed that communication between the couple had significantly deteriorated over the last year and a half. "We stopped communicating together in the past year and a half," she said, adding, "I think that it's safe for me to say that I always loved my husband a little bit more than he loved me."
She continued, "I was like always protecting him and always making sure he was okay and like always chasing him and I literally was the glue that held us together." Describing the dynamic of their relationship, she further said, "I was the chaser and he was the runner" in what she called a twin flame relationship.
Bunnie added, "So in this past year and a half, because I felt like he wasn't pouring into me, and I wasn't pouring into him, and we just weren't communicating," Bunnie explained. "We just weren't on the same page. I stopped chasing him."
She also reflected on the early years of the relationship, recalling that both were struggling financially when they first got together, "When Jay and I first got together, we were two kids who literally had nothing."
Addressing claims that she was financially secure at the time, she added, "Everybody always likes to say that I had all the money when we first got together, and I did this for him and I did that for him. And I mean, I had sugar daddies at the time that were paying for all of this."
According to her, both were simply trying to get by, "We were still in the streets. We were making money as it came," adding that life was far from financially comfortable during those years.
She added, "It wasn't like I was over here just sitting on f---ing a million dollars and was taking care of him. Like, I was turning tricks to pay our bills and to get lawyers and to travel and to, you know, go on tour and stuff like that."
Bunnie XO says IVF ‘completely wrecked’ her
Bunnie also spoke candidly about the impact of fertility struggles on the marriage, describing the IVF journey as one of the most difficult experiences of her life. "My hat goes off to any woman, family, couple who is going through IVF because let me tell you something, dude, that is one of the loneliest, darkest journeys you will be on," she said.
She added, "Everybody gets to see the reward at the end, but it is not all bells and whistles. It is not a beautiful journey." Reflecting on the toll the process took, she emphasized, "It completely wrecked me. It wrecked me emotionally, spiritually, physically. It was so hard on me that for the past year and a half, I became a shell of the person I was because I'm doing these IVF journeys."
Bunnie revealed that the couple faced multiple setbacks during the process, including the loss of several embryos and multiple miscarriages.
Speaking about the emotional pain of those experiences, she said, "You get so mad at God because you're like, why is it so easy for, you know, people who don't deserve children to just be able to pop them out, but two people who really want a baby together ... but two people who really want a child together, and this baby is so loved, and he doesn't even know it yet."
She continued, "It's like every time we are met with a roadblock, and that takes a toll on a relationship." Reflecting on everything the couple had endured over the years, she added, "Jay and I have been through so much, and in a way, I kind of think Jay and I are trauma bonded."
