Jelly Roll’s private jet was forced to make an emergency landing Friday as he was traveling to Austin, Texas, for the 2024 CMT Music Awards.
His wife, Bunnie XO, documented the surprise on TikTok and shared a clip of the pilot informing the group they were experiencing technical issues. The country star, 39, relayed more information about the situation once they got on the ground safely.
“Oh! The plane just got turned around. They turned the plane around,” he said in an upbeat tone. “They said it’s an issue with the computer.”
“And they want us to get back on it!” his wife responded, to which Jelly Roll laughed, “At least it wasn’t the brakes!”
“Our plane we were on just stopped mid-air & turned around for an emergency landing 😭,” Bunnie XO wrote atop the video.
She appeared to be back in the private jet in a second clip she posted about the ordeal. “When the private jet you’re in just stopped mid-air, turned around & said we had to emergency land because of a malfunction,” she wrote in a message over the video, which showed her sitting with several people.
“CMT i swear we’re coming 😭 #jellyandbunnie,” she captioned the post.
Luckily, she and Jelly Roll made it to Vegas ahead of their big night. The “Wild Ones” singer is nominated for three awards at Sunday’s show, while Bunnie XO is acting as CMT’s backstage correspondent.
She announced the exciting news via a TikTok she shared Saturday, writing, “I can’t tell you how honored I am to join the CMT family!”
The “Dumb Blonde” podcast host and Jelly Roll tied the knot in a courthouse wedding in 2016 hours after he proposed to her on stage at a Yelawolf and Deftones concert in Las Vegas.
The singer described his wife, who is stepmom to his daughter, Bailee, and son, Noah, as “a beacon of change” in his life during a 2023 interview with Billboard.
“You’re talking about a woman that came in and took a child that was soon to be born and a child that [we were] soon to have full custody of,” he explained.
“I would have never got custody of my daughter without her. I wouldn’t have had the stability or the money.”
Last month, Bunnie XO celebrated her first anniversary of retiring from sex work and opened up about her fear she would lose income.
“I was SO scared to let go of that part of my life & leave behind the money I was making – wasn’t sure how I’d make up that part of my business,” she wrote on social media.
“But I had faith & let God have it & he made sure I made it back 10 fold 😭.”
The 2024 CMT Awards will air Sunday at 8:00 p.m. ET on CBS.
