Although Bunnie Xo has often been accused of being with Jelly Roll for his money by social media sleuths, the reality couldn’t be far from the truth. Back when she met her would-be husband, there was no gold to dig. The “Son of a Sinner” singer was struggling to get by.
“I was, like, touring, living in, like a ’97 high-top Southern Comfort van and was, like a** broke when I met her,” Jelly Roll disclosed on The Golden Hour podcast. If anything, Bunnie Xo was the financially endowed partner (details on this, next).
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At the time, the pair had been in unhealthy relationships, as Jelly Roll recalled when he revisited the moment years later. The foundation of their relationship, he told Taste of Country, was unfeigned energy. None of them was putting up a front. “I felt her soul,” a sentimental Jelly Roll said. “When I hugged her, I could just feel the genuineness of her. I could tell it wasn’t an act.”
