Inside Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo’s Las Vegas Wedding
What happened in Vegas very much didn’t stay there, when the couple decided to wed on a whim in August 2016. When Jelly proposed backstage at a performance, “Deep down, I was scared as f–k,” Bunnie admitted. Though their relationship was different than any others, she wasn’t sure she could trust herself to make such a big leap.
“But of course, I live for spontaneity,” she acknowledged. “And it was exciting as hell, and I loved the passion. Would it end in disaster? Absolutely—but at least we could say it was a fun moment.”
And they certainly made the most of it, blasting Jagged Edge‘s “Let’s Get Married” and Bruno Mars‘ “Gorilla” en route to the courthouse. Noted Bunnie, “We were so high on life— and other things.”
A “coked up bride,” as she put it, in a shredded black dress, she woked up the next day “meaner than a rattlesnake” questioning if they’d made a mistake.
What ensued was one of their first fights, a disagreement that ended with a heavy conversation overlooking the Grand Canyon as Jelly Roll explained he wouldn’t have married her if he wasn’t serious.
“With one sentence, J had calmed every fear rattling around inside of me,” Bunnie detailed. “For my whole life, nothing had been particularly serious— even marriages could be undone without too much trouble. No one was thinking about forever with me. But J saw me differently. He saw the long game.”
Seven years later they returned to that Vegas chapel to renew their vows.
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Yeah, she’s got a thing for the wild ones. “Before me, J was a player,” Bunnie acknowledged. “He had multiple women who he was with for multiple years at the same time.”
That includes the mother of his son Noah, born a week before his dad’s Vegas vows.
“They were together before him and me—off and on for about ten years to be exact,” Bunnie detailed of Jelly Roll’s romance. “Their relationship was super toxic, but they decided to coparent their son as best they could. She was already eight or nine months pregnant when J and I decided to be together.”
Admittedly, her relationship with her husband’s ex “was rough in the beginning,” noted Bunnie, but, “today I absolutely adore her and the woman and mother she is. And I’m so thankful to have someone in our equation who knows J just as well as I do.”
John Shearer/Getty Images for CMAInside Bunnie Xo’s Decision to Get Sober
As for Bailee, just 7 years old when Bunnie first met her, she arguably saved the Dumb Blonde podcaster from herself.
Months into their marriage, detailed Bunnie, she and Jelly Roll were close to getting full custody of Bailee “from her birth mom, who was deep into drugs.”
But with Bunnie starting each day with what she called her cocktail “of half a Lortab, a quarter of a Xanax, and a diet pill,” she knew it was time to make a change.
“I wanted no part in adding to this kid’s already traumatic life,” she explained. “At the very least, getting sober would keep me from inflicting more of that kind of trauma on her.”
So, with Bailee in mind, “I went cold turkey,” Bunnie wrote. “I was done with pills and cocaine, but it would be a while before I let go of the alcohol.”
