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Published 12:58 04 Jul 2026 GMT
Bunnie Xo has revealed a surprising new move in the wake of her split from husband Jelly Roll after 10 years of marriage.
As previously reported, Jelly Roll, 41, filed for divorce from Bunnie, 46, in May after nearly a decade of marriage, citing "irreconcilable differences".
The podcaster revealed that an argument on Mother's Day led to the end of their marriage, explaining: "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.'"
According to Bunnie, Jelly Roll followed through and filed the paperwork shortly afterward.
The former couple first met in 2015 and married in Las Vegas the following year after the singer proposed on stage.
Although they briefly separated in 2018, they later reconciled and renewed their vows in 2023.
Now, Bunnie has revealed her plans for life as a single woman - and it involves going back to school.
The Dumb Blonde podcast host, whose real name is Alisa Carter, took to Instagram to reveal that she has been accepted into Arizona State University.
She shared a post of ASU's welcome message for her, joking: "Dr. Xo, loading?", while Kings of Leon’s song 'Sex on Fire' played alongside it.
Despite her and Jelly Roll splitting up, Bunnie revealed that she and the country star are still planning to have a baby together.
She explained: "[He] has been so great about us still having a baby together," adding that "he wants the same thing" despite their marriage ending.
"We're just going to raise little Nugget as one big happy family," she told listeners of her podcast.
While discussing the breakdown of their relationship, Bunnie reflected on their difficult fertility journey.
"In the last two years, when we decided to have a baby, I had to do IVF," she said. "My hat goes off to any woman, family, couple who is going through IVF because, let me tell you something, dude, that is one of the loneliest, darkest journeys you will be on."
She continued: "Yes, everybody gets to see the reward at the end, but it is not all bells and whistles. It is not a beautiful journey. It completely wrecked me."
According to Bunnie, both she and Jelly Roll were taking hormones during the process, while the 'Save Me' singer was also dealing with a low sperm count, creating what she described as a chaotic situation.
The couple endured several painful setbacks during treatment. Bunnie disclosed that across three embryo transfers, they lost four embryos.
"The two twins that we were going to try to have, and then we lost the other two," she explained. "And anybody that's going through that and has to deal with these miscarriages, it's gut-wrenching. It is so heartbreaking."
She admitted the losses left her questioning why the process had been so difficult.
"You get so mad at God, because you're like, 'Why is it so easy for people who don't deserve children to just be able to just pop them out?'" she recalled thinking, adding that she and Jelly Roll are "two people that really want a baby together."
The podcast host said the "roadblocks" in their relationship had taken "a toll" on them, but she feels the pair are "trauma bonded at this point".
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Published 10:43 19 Jun 2026 GMT
After country music star Jelly Roll, 41, filed for divorce from his wife, influencer and podcast host Bunnie Xo, 46, he has stayed silent until now.
He has finally spoken out about their relationship and even claimed that “nobody cheated on nobody.”
The couple, with a combined 8.3 million followers on Instagram, had been married for almost ten years and renewed their vows just three years ago.
Although the singer paid tribute to his wife on stage at the Grammys earlier this year, saying that without her, he “would have ended up dead or in jail”, Jelly Roll has filed for divorce months later.
On Thursday evening, he told the audience at his show at Saratoga Springs, New York: “This is the only time and the only city I’m gonna speak about this, so break your camera phones out now.”
Jelly Roll, real name Jason Bradley DeFord, even claimed: “Me and my wife are best friends. We will always be best friends,” and declared that Bunnie will “probably be the only woman I will ever love the way I loved her.”
Despite TMZ reporting that the separation was a "mutual decision by the two and a private family matter", the pair have previously been open about their up-and-down relationship.
The documents filed for the divorce cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for ending their marriage.
Offering an olive branch to his estranged wife, the 'Wild Ones' singer endorsed an episode of Bunnie’s Dumb Blonde podcast, during which she discussed the couple’s divorce.
Prompting fans to listen to the episode, Jelly Roll said: “Every word of it is the truth. That will be my best friend forever. This is the only time I will ever speak about it. Bunnie, I love you, baby.”
The podcast host, real name Alisa De Ford, made a bombshell revelation in the most recent episode: Jelly Roll is allegedly already dating again.
She revealed: "J is a little lover, and he, you know, he likes to snuggle, and he likes to cuddle.”
The model even encouraged other women to contact her soon-to-be ex-husband, saying: "Don't be scared. Shoot your motherf**king shot.
"I will be the ex-wife, okay? And we'll have a great time."
However, she did also admit that she is not ready to do the same. Bunnie confessed: “The crazy thing is, I'm not even ready to hook up with a dude. I'm ready to focus on myself and pour into myself."
Published 08:48 19 Jun 2026 GMT
Bunnie Xo has opened up about her split from Jelly Roll, revealing that despite their recent divorce filing, the pair still plan to have a child together.
On Thursday's episode of her Dumb Blonde podcast, the 46-year-old shared an emotional update on her future with the country star.
Bunnie said Jelly Roll "has been so great about us still having a baby together" and added that "he wants the same thing" despite their marriage ending.
"We're just going to raise little Nugget as one big happy family," she told listeners.
The revelation comes days after it emerged that the 41-year-old musician, whose real name is Jason DeFord, filed for divorce in Williamson County, Tennessee, on May 18 after 10 years of marriage. Court documents cited "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for the split.
While discussing the breakdown of their relationship, Bunnie, whose real name is Alisa Andrea Carter, reflected on their difficult fertility journey.
"In the last two years, when we decided to have a baby, I had to do IVF," she said. "My hat goes off to any woman, family, couple who is going through IVF because, let me tell you something, dude, that is one of the loneliest, darkest journeys you will be on."
She continued: "Yes, everybody gets to see the reward at the end, but it is not all bells and whistles. It is not a beautiful journey. It completely wrecked me."
According to Bunnie, both she and Jelly Roll were taking hormones during the process, while the 'Save Me' singer was also dealing with a low sperm count, creating what she described as a chaotic situation.
The couple endured several painful setbacks during treatment. Bunnie disclosed that across three embryo transfers, they lost four embryos.
"The two twins that we were going to try to have, and then we lost the other two," she explained. "And anybody that's going through that and has to deal with these miscarriages, it's gut-wrenching. It is so heartbreaking."
She admitted the losses left her questioning why the process had been so difficult.
"You get so mad at God, because you're like, 'Why is it so easy for people who don't deserve children to just be able to just pop them out?'" she recalled thinking, adding that she and Jelly Roll are "two people that really want a baby together."
The podcast host said the "roadblocks" in their relationship had taken "a toll" on them, but she feels the pair are "trauma bonded at this point".
She also revealed that an argument on Mother's Day led to the end of their marriage.
"On Mother's Day, we had a little bit of an argument, which I don't think the details are necessary," she said. "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.'"
According to Bunnie, Jelly Roll followed through and filed the paperwork shortly afterward.
The former couple first met in 2015 and married in Las Vegas the following year after the singer proposed on stage.
Although they briefly separated in 2018, they later reconciled and renewed their vows in 2023.
The divorce has sparked intense public interest, prompting a response from Jelly Roll's 18-year-old daughter, Bailee Ann.
"Oh & one more thing I am disgusted at how invested everyone is in a very clearly private family matter. It's fkn crazy," she wrote on TikTok. "Go on somewhere yall. Worry bout your house - not mine. I'm not speaking on it – yet."
In a follow-up post, she thanked supporters for their kindness, adding: "I understand & respect opinions and that a public profile is a public profile, but that doesn't have to mean we throw away our human decency."
Published 09:34 16 Jun 2026 GMT
Country artist Jelly Roll and his wife, Bunnie Xo, are set to split up after almost 10 years of marriage.
It was revealed by TMZ that Jelly Roll, real name Jason DeFord, filed for divorce in Williamson County, Tennessee, on May 18, according to court documents.
The move may come as a surprise to many who have followed the couple's journey, as the pair have shared several details about their relationship in the past.
Earlier this year, they could be seen getting their PDA on at the 2026 Grammys, before Jelly Roll, 41, scooped up an award for himself, thanking his wife in his speech.
Following the news, an old interview involving podcaster Bunnie Xo, real name Alisa DeFord, and the discussion of the couple's sex life has resurfaced.
Speaking out in February this year, she explained how her love life with Jelly Roll changed following his dramatic weight loss.
The country artist once hit 540 lbs (245 kg), but managed to lose over half of that without the use of GLP-1 medication, getting down to 265 lbs (120 kg).
Speaking to Us Weekly, Bunnie Xo opened up about what she shared in her memoir, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic: "We always had a sex life, but there were mountains and valleys that we had to go through - especially when he was so big."
She added that it was his "excitement and his new zest for life" which was refreshing, adding: “It’s so childlike and just giddy - just seeing him get to be the man that I always saw that he was.”
The 46-year-old went on: “Even when he was 500 pounds, this dude was an agile, big guy. I’m like, ‘You are athletic under that meat suit.’
"Now that he has the weight off of him, he just gets to be who I always knew that he was, and I think it’s brought a new sense of happiness to him. Any time he’s happy, I’m happy."
Jelly Roll also opened up about his own weight loss in an interview with Men's Health this year, explaining: "I was so fat that there came a moment in life that my wife and I had to put two queen beds beside each other because we couldn’t fit in a king bed anymore, I was just all over,
"Now it’s a totally different thing. I’m chasing her around the house. I’m like a teenage kid again! I’m like the Pink Panther – I bust out of every corner. And she opens the cabinet and I go, ‘Hi!’"
He had previously revealed that he couldn't get aroused due to his size.
The couple started dating over 10 years ago, after meeting at one of Jelly Roll's shows at Las Vegas' Country Saloon in 2015.
After around a year of dating, Jelly proposed to Bunnie on stage in Las Vegas, with the pair eloping and making it official in a courthouse ceremony that same evening.
They had been open about numerous aspects of their relationship, including their IVF journey, as they were attempting to conceive.
When Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo attended this year's Grammy Awards, they could be seen laying kisses on one another, sharing a more wholesome moment after the former won Best Contemporary Country Album.
As part of his acceptance speech, he said: "I want to thank my beautiful wife,
"I would have never changed my life without you. I would have ended up dead or in jail. I would have killed myself if it wasn't for you and Jesus. I thank you for that."
Published 10:45 25 Jun 2026 GMT
Bunnie Xo has issued a plea after revealing that her Instagram DMs have become a chaotic place following the news of her divorce from Jelly Roll.
The Dumb Blonde podcast host took to the social media platform on Tuesday (June 23) to joke about the number of men trying to get her attention after her split became public.
In the clip, the 46-year-old used face-morphing filters to transform herself into different men while lip-syncing to Petey Pablo's track 'Freek-A-Leek,' in which the rapper lists a series of NSFW bedroom suggestions.
In the overlay text of the clip, she wrote: "What it's like opening my DMs right now."
She added in the caption: "Send help."
The post comes just over a week after it was reported that Jelly Roll filed for divorce from Bunnie in May after nearly a decade of marriage.
Speaking on her podcast days after the filing became public, Bunnie admitted she had been blindsided by the decision but stressed there is no bad blood between the pair and that the pair will remain "best friends".
She also added that they still plan to welcome a baby together through IVF. "We're just going to raise little Nugget as one big happy family," she told listeners.
In addition to this, she shared that the 41-year-old musician has already begun moving on romantically.
"My husband is ready to date," she said on the podcast. "He's rearing and ready to go … he's even started dating, which is great, I love that."
As attention surrounding Bunnie's divorce has continued to grow, details of one of her previous relationships have also re-emerged.
Her ex-husband, music producer Francisco "Frankie" Lombardo, recently spoke about their four-year relationship, claiming it "destroyed" him when it came to an end.
"Bunnie was the only girl that broke my heart," he told the Daily Mail. "She left me for another man and... [it] f*****g destroyed my life in a sense. And she got with some dude [who she dated before Jelly Roll] who beat her up, which was a f*****g nightmare."
The former couple met while the influencer was still married to Christopher Gilbert, although both maintained that her previous relationship had already ended by the time she and Lombardo got together.
After the meeting, their romance progressed quickly. Lombardo moved in with Bunnie just a week later, and the pair married in Hawaii on Valentine's Day in 2010, only five months after beginning their relationship.
Looking back on their marriage, Lombardo said: "It was good. I really loved her, and I think that we were definitely extremely close....We're f*****g best friends... She was a good wife."
Lombardo said tension eventually developed over Bunnie's work and the financial support she received from multiple sugar daddies.
"When I met her, she said to me right out of the gate, 'I just want to let you know that I have a couple sugar daddies,'" he recalled.
"And I was like, 'What the f**k does that mean?' I didn't want to know, but she had a couple sugar daddies who would send her money. She never saw them. They lived out of state."
Lombardo admitted he became "super jealous" of the arrangement because, as he explained, "I wanted her all to myself."
The 46-year-old has previously spoken openly about her past as a high-end escort and has never hidden the fact that sugar daddies gifted her expensive items, including cars and diamonds.
She has also said she still had sugar daddies and continued seeing clients when she first began dating Jelly Roll.
Published 16:02 19 Jun 2026 GMT
Bunnie Xo has revealed what she is getting from her divorce settlement.
The 46-year-old revealed on her Dumb Blonde podcast that she and Jelly Roll have managed to divide their assets quickly and remain on remarkably good terms despite their split.
"My husband and I are ending this marriage on the best possible terms," the host, whose real name is Alisa DeFord, said.
Explaining that the 41-year-old country star filed for divorce last month, she added: "We're literally settling our divorce. We've done it in two weeks, three weeks."
One of the biggest assets involved is a property the former couple purchased last year.
Bunnie disclosed that Jelly Roll has agreed to let her keep the compound, which includes three homes and has been a passion project for her.
"J is so f***ing sweet that he's giving me that compound in the divorce," she said, "because he knows how special it is to me."
She also hinted that financial support is part of the settlement arrangement.
"I joke around with him," she said. "I'm like, 'Well, you didn't take care of me in the marriage, but you're taking care of me in the divorce.'" She added: "We stan a f***ing king."
Despite the legal proceedings, the influencer made it clear there is no animosity between them.
"That's my f***ing best friend, dude," she said.
Her comments echo comments Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord, recently made while addressing the divorce publicly for the first time during a concert in Saratoga Springs, New York.
The 'Save Me' singer denied speculation that infidelity played a role in the breakup, telling the crowd: "While we're talking about liars, the internet is a liar too... nobody cheated on nobody.
"Me and my wife are best friends. We will always be best friends," he continued, adding that Bunnie is "probably the only woman I will ever love the way I loved her."
He then promoted her podcast episode about the divorce, saying: "Every word of it is the truth. That will be my best friend forever.
"This is the only time I will ever speak about it. Bunnie, I love you, baby," he concluded.
While their marriage may be ending, Bunnie revealed the former couple is still planning to have a child together following their difficult IVF journey.
"We're just going to raise little Nugget as one big happy family," she previously said.
She also noted that she and Jelly Roll will continue co-parenting his children, Bailee, 18, and Noah, nine.
"We have been the most unconventional couple that you guys have ever encountered," she said.
Although Bunnie has now embraced the changes in her life, she admitted the divorce wasn't what she initially wanted.
"I felt like we deserved a chance to go to therapy and figure s**t out," she said. "He didn't feel that way and I respect it. It took me a month and a half now to respect that."
She believes the split forced both of them to have conversations they had been avoiding.
"Was it necessary for us to have a wakeup call and to actually start having these real conversations? Absolutely," she said. "This was like a resurrection of my soul, because I literally feel like a different human than I was a month and a half ago - and I'm so thankful."
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