Bunnie XO says the Jelly Roll Bunnie Xo Split has not changed one thing she and Jelly Roll already decided: they still plan to raise a baby together through surrogacy. She addressed the divorce publicly for the first time on Thursday’s Dumb Blonde podcast episode, turning a private filing into a public co-parenting plan.
Dumb Blonde podcast disclosure
“We’re going to co-parent together,” she said on the episode. Bunnie XO also said, “J is my best friend. Like, this isn’t what you guys think this is. Nobody cheated on the other person. We just served our purpose for each other.”
The timing matters because the couple had already secured a surrogate in February after years of fertility struggles. That means the split does not unwind the child plan; it changes the relationship around it. For a reader following the breakup, the operational fact is simple: the divorce filing sits beside an active plan to parent the child together.
May 18 filing in Tennessee
Court records say Jelly Roll filed for divorce in Williamson County, Tennessee, on May 18, 2026, citing irreconcilable differences. Bunnie XO said the two had pretty much stopped communicating over the previous year and a half, then had “a little bit of an argument” on Mother’s Day.
After that argument, she said, “Well, then file the [expletive] divorce papers.” She packed a bag and left, and they did not speak for weeks afterward. Jelly Roll ended up filing the papers after that exchange.
Best terms, not mutual
Bunnie XO drew the sharpest line in the whole story when she said, “Was I blindsided? Was this divorce mutual? No,” while also saying, “my husband and I are ending this marriage on the best possible terms.” That is the tension in the filing: the split was not mutual in her telling, but she is also trying to keep the personal break from becoming a parental collapse.
She said she had spoken with Jelly Roll for two hours shortly before recording the podcast. That detail suggests the relationship is still functional enough to support the co-parenting arrangement they say they want, even after the marriage has entered the legal phase.
In her February memoir, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, Bunnie XO wrote that the couple had found a surrogate and remained determined to have a child together. For now, that is the most important next step in the story: not whether the marriage can be repaired, but how two people who are divorcing keep moving toward the same child plan.
