Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo‘s divorce comes as a shock to many — but there were clues about their split leading up to the news.
The pair got married in 2016 before Jelly Roll became a household name. Amid his rise to stardom, Bunnie supported Jelly Roll as he used his platform to candidly address topics in his life such as incarceration, addiction and past challenges in his marriage.
“One of the worst moments of my adulthood was when I had an affair on my wife,” the singer admitted during an October 2025 episode of the “Human School” podcast. “Because it was the first time that I was like, ‘I really can’t get this right at all. I know I’m in love with this woman.’ It just really, really, really blew me back.”
Jelly Roll confessed that he put in “a lot of work to repair” their connection, which led to them being “stronger than we could have ever been,” saying, “I wish our story would’ve went in the way that it never had an affair. I’m proud of who we are today. I truly am.”
Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo were brutally honest about the ups and downs of their relationship throughout their near decade-long marriage. Following two stints in jail — Jelly Roll (real name Jason Bradley DeFord) was arrested for aggravated robbery at 16 and served one year before being incarcerated for drug dealing at the age of […]
Bunnie, for her part, recalled how “hard” it was to move on from the “betrayal.”
“I don’t think anybody can just snap out of it. It is a process. You’re literally grieving and you’re heartbroken, but you’re still in love with this person. Even though the affair is a part of the book, it’s not our story,” she explained to Us Weekly in January 2026. “It’s literally what catapulted us into who we are today and I think that readers need to definitely consume it, chew on it and think about it. But they also see what we’ve made from that entire situation. It completely changed who we are as humans and how we looked at love.”
She continued: “We didn’t know how to love each other properly. We both were raised in opposite households but weren’t taught how to love correctly. A lot of that gets brushed over, [but] as a child, he wasn’t taught how to love properly and I wasn’t taught how to love or receive love.”
Months after Bunnie reflected on the couple’s highs and lows in her memoir, Stripped Down, news broke in June 2026 that Jelly Roll filed to end their marriage. Keep scrolling for the signs that Bunnie and Jelly Roll were headed for divorce:
Cryptic Posts
Bunnie XO and Jelly Roll Jason Kempin/Getty Images
Hours before Jelly Roll’s divorce paperwork made headlines in June 2026, Bunnie posed in lingerie on her Instagram Story, writing, “She’s getting her sparkle back.” In a separate Story, she shared the quote, “Come here, let me show you what love feels like.”
Ditching His Wedding Ring
In footage from the 2026 CMA Fest, which took place in Nashville weeks before the pair’s divorce made headlines, Jelly Roll was seen on stage without his wedding ring on his finger.
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Missing From the Public Eye
Bunnie and Jelly Roll’s last public appearance was in February 2026 when she supported him at the Grammys. She was photographed with Jelly Roll after, despite discussing their marriage — and defending her now-estranged husband — on her podcast.
“All he is saying is, ‘Hey, Jesus is for everybody. Jesus does not belong to one political party. Jesus loves you,’” she said on a February 2026 episode of her “Dumb Blonde” podcast following backlash to Jelly Roll’s Grammys acceptance speech. “And the internet lost their minds.”
Split Rumors
The duo faced their fair share of split speculation over the years — and Bunnie clapped back at rumors that her marriage was in trouble.
“Someone said the other day, ‘They used to always be together, and now you never see them together,’” she said on her podcast in August 2025. “I’m like, ‘Do you guys not know that for the past six months [that] I’ve been trying to make a baby?’”
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