Jelly Roll & Bunnie XO Talk Relationship In ‘Save Me’ Documentary

Jelly Roll performs at the Louder Than Life Music Festival at the Kentucky Exposition Center, in Louisville, Ky
2022 Louder Than Life Music Festival - Day Four, Louisville, United States - 25 Sep 2022 — Image Credit: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/Shutterstock

Jelly Roll and his spouse Bunnie XO have been fortunately married since 2016, lengthy earlier than he launched his first album on a serious report label in 2021. In the singer’s new documentary, Jelly Roll: Save Me, the 2 opened up about their relationship, together with the general public’s notion that Bunnie solely married Jelly Roll for his cash and fame. “When I met him, I was just like, ‘Who the f*** is this dude?’” she recalled. “He was nobody. He was playing to a room of 30 people. It’s always like, ‘She’s a gold digger,’ and I’m like…that’s not the case.”

Bunnie mentioned that when she first met Jelly Roll, he would name her and ask her for issues that he wanted for his younger daughter, Bailee, who was born in 2008. “I didn’t mind it,” she admitted. “That’s the hold J had on me.” Jelly Roll was in jail when Bailee was born, however when she was 7, he acquired full custody of her amidst her mom’s wrestle with drug dependancy.

In the doc, Jelly Roll defined why he and Bunnie are capable of relate to one another and join on such a deep stage. “[She’s] always been in the sex worker industry, that’s the culture in Vegas,” he mentioned. “I just related to that so much. I understood how much an environment can affect you and how you see things. Bunnie was who she was. I was who I was. It was two people looking to run wild together. I think that’s what attracted me to Bunnie.”

The begin of the pair’s relationship was fueled by drug use, they usually wasted no time getting married after their first assembly. “We stumbled into a courthouse blackout drunk and got married,” the 38-year-old dished. “I’ll probably still get blackout drunk once a year for the rest of my life because you never know what could happen!”

Bunnie admitted that the pair’s relationship was “extremely toxic” at first because of their partying. However, Jelly Roll had beforehand made a promise to himself that he can be there for his daughter, and getting custody of Bailee helped them get on a straighter path. Bunnie mentioned she hasn’t taken a capsule since Bailee moved in along with her and her husband, whereas Jelly Roll has given up exhausting medication, though he admittedly nonetheless smokes marijuana and drinks alcohol.

Now that Jelly Roll’s profession has taken off, he and Bunnie have been thrust into the highlight. They walked their first purple carpet on the CMA Awards in Nov. 2022, which was documented within the film. “I’m a west coast girl, so being out here in Nashville is a culture shock,” Bunnie admitted. “I’m like, ‘Do I have to start wearing rhinestones and cowboy boots and bellbottoms and s***? I don’t even know. We’re like the Addams Family of the country era. We don’t belong here, but we’re here. We don’t fit in, for sure. But country needs people to shake some s*** up.”