Only time will tell, I guess.
The bombshell divorce between Jelly Roll and his now-ex wife, Bunnie Xo, was finalized back on July 17, just 60 days after the “Save Me” singer filed his complaint in Williamson County, Tennessee.
The couple were married back in 2016 before renewing their vows in 2023, and Bunnie in particular has been incredibly transparent about their relationship, including their struggles along the way. In an interview just a couple months ago with E! News, Bunnie explained that they were in a “beautiful place,” but things weren’t always sunshine and rainbows between them:
“I want people to know, ‘Hey, it took a lot of work, guts and grit to get to where we are, Everything’s beautiful now, but it wasn’t in the beginning. Just us being together was just two souls that were merging that were broken and just formed a whole piece. And we helped each other heal, and we have continued to elevate and grow in these past 10 years. I couldn’t be happier. That dude’s my best friend.”
She released her memoir in February, called Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, where she details a ton of information about their marriage, from how they met in August of 2015, when Jelly was just starting out and living in a van, and she admits that he was not her type, but the second she met him, she felt like she’d known him her whole life.
After months of texting, they eventually decided to give it chance, even though Bunnie admits Jelly was not her usual type:
“J wasn’t my type—I love tough guys, or goth, emo boys in eyeliner. I wasn’t his type either. So why the hell was my soul telling me there he is the minute we met? I couldn’t explain it. Our chemistry was insane, we couldn’t keep our hands off each other.”
They went through a lot, Bunnie was still a high-end call girl at the time and making a ton of money, and Jelly was not bothered by her line of work… she says he viewed her as a hard worker, and unlike everyone else she’d ever dated, he’d never made her feel bad for what she did.
Since the divorce, Bunnie has continued to speak pretty in-depth about everything they went through, and on a recent episode of her Dumb Blonde podcast with Denise Richards, Bunnie and Denise bonded over their respective divorces, and during the conversation, Richards told Bunnie she would never get married again:
“I will never get married again.”
Bunnie replied that she felt the same way:
“No, me either. I can’t do it. I will never.”
Time will tell if that remains the case, I imagine a lot of people feel that way when they first get divorced, and Bunnie said that there are a lot of narratives out there about her relationship that simply aren’t true:
“The only people who know what’s going on inside of a divorce or a relationship, no matter how public they are, is the two people that are in it. All these other narratives that are created are not real, and people need to stop believing headlines. It’s just not what it is.”
She also commented on the aforementioned affair, saying it was the “lies” that hurt more than anything else:
“When I had gone through a situation with an affair, it’s not the act that hurts you. It’s the lies. It’s like whiplash, and the people who are involved in it — it’s slimy. Betrayal trauma literally, it rewires your brain to not trust people, to just feel disgusting, because you’re the last to know. It’s a different kind of hurt.”
Bunnie has seemed to move on pretty quickly, recently showing off her multi-million dollar mansion she got in the breakup, which she and Jelly had been building together, and she also recently got a West Coast house and brand new Rolls Royce… so yeah, she’s doing pretty alright it sounds like.
The full podcast is available below.
