Bunnie Xo said the Jelly Roll and Bunnie divorce started after a Mother’s Day argument, and that Jelly Roll filed for divorce on May 18 after she told him to do it in the heat of the fight. She said the split was not mutual, even as she described the two as ending the marriage on the best possible terms.
Dumb Blonde on June 18
On Thursday June 18, she addressed the filing on her Dumb Blonde podcast episode titled “The Divorce.” News broke Monday that Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo were divorcing after 10 years together, but her version supplied the missing sequence: the argument came first, then the filing, then weeks without talking.
Bunnie Xo said, “J and I have never been really good at having disagreements, so we were the type of couple who never argued. … He would be holding things in and I would be holding things in, and it was a recipe for disaster. … On Mother’s Day, we had a little bit of an argument, which I don’t think the details are necessary, and in that argument, I was so fed up and so tired that I just looked at him and said, ‘Well, then file the f—ing divorce papers.’”
Williamson County filing
Court documents filed in Tennessee say Jelly Roll filed for divorce on May 18 in Williamson County. That is the legal step that turned a private argument into a public filing, and it also explains why the split surfaced after the weekend and not right away.
She said, “I ended up leaving. … I packed a bag and I left.” She also said, “And I didn’t talk to my husband for weeks after that.”
Best possible terms
The harder part is the contradiction inside her own account: she said she told him to file the papers, then said, “Was I blindsided? Was this divorce mutual? No, it was not mutual, even though I told him to file the divorce papers, I was speaking out of anger and just frustration.” That makes this less a clean mutual separation than a filing triggered by a fight and followed by cooling-off distance.
She also said, “He is my best friend. He’s always been my best friend,” and, “I love that man more than life itself. … Even today, behind the scenes, your girl is still riding for that man.” She added, “But was it necessary for us to have a wakeup call? … Absolutely. … My husband and I are ending this marriage on the best possible terms.”
For readers tracking the split, the most useful fact is not the headline date but the sequence: an argument on Mother’s Day, a filing on May 18, and a public explanation on June 18. The unresolved point is the one she left off the table herself — what the argument was actually about.
