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Jelly Roll's Rules for a Sweet Life: Forgiving His Past Self, Prioritizing His Marriage and Parenting a 'Sassy' Teen


Jelly Roll put a difficult past behind him. Now, the Grammy nominee is opening up about his marriage to wife Bunnie Xo and how he hopes he can pay his success forward.

And right now, there are few stars bigger than Jelly Roll, the country crooner who’s mined a complicated life riddled with addiction and years behind bars for life-affirming songs that fans say make them feel heard, sometimes for the first time. Though he began his career as a hip-hop artist, putting out a number of independent mixtapes and albums, the 2020 release of his song “Save Me” saw him pivot to country music, and introduced the world to a new, unguarded Jelly — one desperately seeking salvation for his sins. Jelly recalls meeting Swift for the first time at the 2024 Grammy Awards, and gathering up his courage to tell her about how he used to push Bailee on the swings at a children’s playground she funded in Hendersonville, Tenn.

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