Jelly Roll addressed claims that his wife, Bunnie Xo, is a “gold digger” in their marriage.
“I love it when they call her a gold digger,” Jelly Roll, 41, recently told Taste of Country Nights. “She hates it. It just flames her up.”
Jelly Roll, meanwhile, finds it funny.
“But it just tickles me absolutely pink because when I met her,” he noted, “I was homeless living out of a 1996 conversion van, so if anyone was digging for gold it was I, Popeye. I was couch-surfing and made it to the bedroom.”
Bunnie Xo, 46, has been married to Jelly Roll since 2016. The couple have been candid about the highs and lows in their relationship. More recently, Bunnie Xo wrote about their early dating days in her memoir, which included mentions of Jelly Roll’s infidelity.
“I tried to be as real as possible with the situation,” she exclusively told Luxury Handbag Shopping about her book, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, which came out in February. “I think I might have even toned it down.”
Bunnie Xo didn’t want to hold anything back, adding, “It’s just really important to be real. My husband is my best friend. I f***ing love that man — and we have been through hell.”
The content creator learned that “love isn’t always pretty.”
“It’s raw, it’s emotional and it’s a journey,” she added. “I’m so happy for people who have never had to go through anything traumatic in their relationships. But I just feel like my husband and I had to go through that because it’s part of our testimony. It’s a part of what we’ve survived — we choose to be together every day.”
Before Stripped Down’s release, Bunnie Xo gave her husband an early copy.
“He’s reading it now. As I was writing the chapters, I would tell him, ‘Do you want me to send the book to you?’ And he’s like, ‘No, I just want to read it when it comes out. Tell your truth.’ My husband has never stifled my creativity,” she gushed. “That’s one thing I love about my husband. He’s been my No. 1 supporter.”
Jelly Roll, meanwhile, praised his wife for being outspoken.
“It was rough at times just for me to read it,” he told People last month. “We went through a lot of pain and having to go through it together, but reading the whole book and seeing where it ended at is really touching.”
Jelly Roll continued: “I’m just proud of her for telling her story so unapologetically. I mean, she talks about everything fearlessly, from domestic assault to sexual assault. I’m just proud of her. She’s so brave.”
