Brianna 'Chickenfry' LaPaglia said Jelly Roll is still hanging over Bunnie Xo's breakup, telling listeners on the Sunday, July 12 episode of Plan Bri Uncut that she thinks Xo is still protecting him after their split. The comment pushed a private divorce further into public view, and it came after Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo had each said they remain best friends.
"She's still under the mind control of him," LaPaglia said on the podcast, turning a split that was already public into a sharper dispute over who is controlling the narrative. She also said, "It's like, you're not fully stepped out of the situation yet [and] can't even understand what's happening to you, and she just still wants to protect him, and she still wants to encourage [him]."
July 12 on Plan Bri Uncut
On Sunday, July 12, LaPaglia used the episode to compare Xo's behavior to what she said she went through during her own public split with Zach Bryan in 2024. She said Bryan blindsided her when he announced their breakup on social media, and later alleged that he was controlling and tried to get her to sign a non-disclosure agreement during their relationship. That is the frame she brought to the Jelly Roll conversation: not gossip for its own sake, but a warning about how public breakups get managed once one partner controls the first version of the story.
In May, Jelly Roll filed for divorce after an alleged fight on Mother's Day, and last month Bunnie Xo said the two had split after 10 years of marriage. LaPaglia's comments landed inside that timeline, after the filing and after the separation statement, which makes her remarks less like a reaction to a rumor and more like a fresh public reading of an already settled break in the relationship. A separate report on the Mother's Day argument and divorce filing lays out that sequence in more detail.
Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo
LaPaglia also tied the breakup to what she said was Jelly Roll's 200-pound weight loss, arguing that his ego and behavior changed as the weight came off. She said, "She's going to step out of this a year from now and be like, 'Holy [expletive], Jelly Belly [expletive] lost weight,' and the second he drops weight, take it for what it actually is," adding another layer to the public read on the split. For readers trying to follow the timeline, a separate account of the couple's breakup and plans for a child together is here: the split and surrogacy plan.
She went further, saying, "I don't think there would be Jelly Roll at this level if it wasn't for Bunnie," and described the singer as having built an incredible life with Xo after what she called a dark past. LaPaglia also said the only redeeming and beautiful quality of Jelly Roll seems to be his attachment to Bunnie, while adding that she thinks he may go after a trad wife next. It's a blunt read, and it puts Xo in the middle of a fight over legacy as much as romance.
Jason DeFord's split
Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason DeFord, and Bunnie Xo have each said they remain best friends despite the separation. That contradiction is the point worth watching now: LaPaglia is describing Xo as still protecting Jelly Roll, while the pair are publicly presenting themselves as friendly and still tied together by a shared future. One separate conversation from the weeks before the divorce filing also surfaced after a hospital visit on Dumb Blonde: Jelly Roll's podcast hospital visit.
For readers following the split, the immediate takeaway is simple: LaPaglia has now turned the divorce into a broader argument about image, loyalty, and who benefits from the softest version of the story. The unanswered part is the one that started it all — what happened during the Mother's Day fight that pushed Jelly Roll to file in May.
