Bunnie Xo is leaning into the jokes as she opens up about her split from Jelly Roll, comparing her marriage to a “10-year prison bid” while responding to the flood of DMs she has received since the divorce news surfaced.
Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason DeFord, filed for divorce from Bunnie in Tennessee on May 18, 2026, after the pair separated on May 9, according to court records obtained by TMZ. The filing listed “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split.
The breakup surprised many fans because the couple had continued making public appearances together in recent months, including at the 2026 Grammy Awards.
Shortly after the rumors began circulating online, Jelly Roll addressed the situation on Instagram and pushed back against cheating speculation.
“I wanted to jump on here and address the elephant in the room,” Jelly Roll began. “First and foremost, nobody cheated on anybody. Please stop with the crazy internet rumors. Bunnie and I love each other deeply, and that will never change.”
On a recent episode of her Dumb Blonde Podcast, Bunnie said she had only replied to two direct messages since the breakup, but she still read out some of the more unusual ones for listeners.
One read: “Hey pretty lady, I’m about to get out of prison on a 10 year bid next year. Please let me go out and have a time with you. That’s all I ask. I promise it will be worth it. Hit me back.”
Bunnie said the prison part was not what bothered her.
“What I don’t like is he said, ‘let me go out and have a time with you,'” she said
“So that’s where it’s like, okay, so you’re just expecting me to put out on this first date. Which…”
Her co-host, Meme Shahan, then jumped in with a joke.
“I mean after 10 years he might need it.”
Bunnie laughed and responded with a line that appeared to reference the end of her own marriage.
“I just got out of a 10-year bid too b*****s, what are we talking about.”
The pair married on August 30, 2016, in Las Vegas and spent nearly a decade together before filing to end their marriage this spring.
Another admirer told Bunnie that if she was looking for a man “without tattoos everywhere,” she should give him a chance.
“You can call me fat roll, or crunchy roll, or glazed donut,” the admirer added.
Bunnie first spoke publicly about the breakup on an earlier podcast episode, saying the couple’s rise to international fame over the past year made communication harder.
“J and I have never really been good at having disagreements. So, we were the type of couple who never argued. So, he would be holding things in. I would be holding things in, and that’s a recipe for disaster,” she admitted.
She also said an argument on Mother’s Day was the turning point in the marriage, though she did not go into detail about what the dispute was about.
The podcaster described it as ” the absolute straw that broke the camel’s back.”
More recently, Bunnie has suggested there was no cheating scandal and that the split was not the result of a dramatic blowup, but rather the product of long-building strain in the relationship.
Sources close to the exes have also said the divorce was a mutual decision, even as the couple continues to navigate the end of their marriage in the public eye.