{"id":2463020,"date":"2026-06-16T23:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2463020"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:52:16","slug":"jelly-roll-files-for-divorce-from-wife-bunnie-xo-after-nearly-10-years-of-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jelly-roll-files-for-divorce-from-wife-bunnie-xo-after-nearly-10-years-of-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Jelly Roll Files for Divorce From Wife Bunnie Xo After Nearly 10 Years of Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Country star and rapper Jelly Roll has filed for divorce from his wife after nearly 10 years of marriage.<\/p>\n

Court documents, first obtained by TMZ<\/a>, revealed that the 41-year-old musical star filed for divorce from Bunnie Xo <\/a>in Williamson County, Tennessee, on May 18.<\/p>\n

Jelly Roll listed the date of separation as May 9 and cited irreconcilable differences, according to Fox News.<\/a><\/p>\n

The split marks the end of a turbulent relationship the pair has endured over the years. This includes Jelly Roll, real name Jason DeFord, admitting to cheating on Xo, real name Alisa DeFord, which led to them briefly splitting up in 2018.<\/p>\n

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Bunnie Xo and Jelly Roll seen during happier times at the Country Music Television Music Awards in Austin, Texas, U.S., April 2, 2023. \/ SHELBY TAUBER \/ Shelby Tauber\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Xo, 46, a former sex worker best known as the host of the Dumb Blonde Podcast<\/i>, detailed the anguish she felt when she discovered Jelly Roll\u2019s affairs in her 2026 memoir Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people… are like, \u2018Why didn\u2019t you leave?\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018I did leave.\u2019 I did leave him and we were split for about 30 days,\u201d she told People<\/a> in January. \u201cBut I just loved that man so much that I just really, truly believe that he deserved a second chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Things seemed rosy for the pair just this February, when Jelly Roll thanked his \u201cbeautiful wife\u201d in an emotional speech while accepting the Grammy for Best Contemporary Country Album.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would never have changed my life without you. I would have ended up dead or in jail. I would have killed myself if it wasn\u2019t for you and Jesus. I thank you for that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The pair met in 2015 when Xo attended one of Jelly Roll\u2019s concerts in Las Vegas before tying the knot in August 2016 in a whirlwind romance.<\/p>\n

News of the divorce arrived after Jelly Roll had already undergone a dramatic transformation, shedding nearly 300 pounds<\/a> over about three years.<\/p>\n

The \u201cSon of a Sinner\u201d singer said he decided he needed to lose his fear of dying when he weighed more than 500 pounds at his heaviest. The incredible weight loss led to the singer appearing on the January cover of Men\u2019s Health magazine.<\/p>\n

In April, Jelly Roll posted a video on YouTube describing how he had \u201clost my way\u201d<\/a> during his strict diet and exercise regimen over the Thanksgiving and Christmas period and had gained a few pounds as a result.<\/p>\n

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The singer weighed more than 500 pounds at his heaviest. \/ Harrison McClary\/Reuters<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel really fat, I feel really bloated,\u201d he added. \u201cI feel like the scale\u2019s gonna let me down. I feel like I\u2019m gonna find out I\u2019ve gained like 15 pounds over the f—ing last six months.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jelly Roll then stepped on a scale, revealing he was just over 276 pounds, meaning he had gained 12 pounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to get these last 40 or 50 lbs off, and then I eventually want to cut my skin,\u201d Jelly said of his future intentions.<\/p>\n

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A slimmed-down Jelly Roll at the premiere of the movie \u201cGoat\u201d in February. \/ Mario Anzuoni\/Reuters<\/p>\n

In a December 2025 interview on The Joe Rogan Experience<\/i>, Jelly Roll admitted that his wife played an important role in helping him when he started dieting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first three months of the diet, I sat down with her and was like, \u2018Look, I need you to hide the food,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Country star and rapper Jelly Roll has filed for divorce from his wife after nearly 10 years of marriage. Court documents, first obtained by TMZ, revealed that the 41-year-old musical star filed for divorce from Bunnie Xo in Williamson County, Tennessee, on May 18. Jelly Roll listed the date of separation as May 9 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2462328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[123504],"class_list":["post-2463020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-jelly-roll"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jelly-Roll-files-for-divorce-from-wife-Bunnie-XO-after.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2463020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463021,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463020\/revisions\/2463021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2462328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}