Hours before news broke that Jelly Roll filed for divorce, Bunnie Xo shared cryptic Instagram captions and heartbreak-themed moments—while earlier in their marriage she described rebuilding after infidelity. The filings reportedly trace back to May 18 in Tenne
Bunnie Xo didn’t wait for headlines.
In the hours before news broke that her husband. Jelly Roll. filed for divorce. she turned to Instagram with posts that felt less like a performance and more like a private language. On Monday. June 15. Bunnie—whose real name is Alisa DeFord—posed in lingerie for her Instagram Story and wrote. “She’s getting her sparkle back.” In a separate Story. she shared the quote. “Come here. let me show you what love feels like.” She also posted a video lip-synching to Nickelback’s 2001 hit “How You Remind Me. ” a track whose music video features singer Chad Kroeger’s girlfriend literally disappearing from his life.
Those images and captions landed right as the other half of the story was unfolding in court paperwork. Us Weekly reported on Monday that Jelly Roll—real name Jason Bradley DeFord, 41—quietly filed for divorce from Bunnie on May 18 in Tennessee.
Jelly Roll’s recent openness about heartbreak through music adds an extra layer to the timing. In December 2025. Chad Kroeger. 51. explained the inspiration behind “How You Remind Me. ” telling Louder: “I was sitting in the basement of my old house in 2000. having just got into a big argument with my girlfriend. So I guess I was feeling pretty jaded at the time. I wanted to write some lyrics that were a slap
in the face to her. Even though I do say in the song that I love her. I kinda wanted to throw her a back-handed slap. So I was being very direct. and yelling into the microphone so that she could hear what I was saying.” He added. “I was shouting lines like ‘It’s not like you to say sorry’ and ‘This is how you remind me’ and I was trying to be nasty. trying
to put in these really sarcastic lines. Then she opened the door, and she was like: ‘What’s that?. I really like it’. So it kinda defeated the object of what I was doing.”.
For Bunnie and Jelly Roll, the divorce news doesn’t arrive out of nowhere. They have spoken publicly about trying to rebuild after Jelly Roll cheated several years ago, with Bunnie describing how learning to love properly didn’t come naturally.
In February. Bunnie admitted to Us that. “We didn’t know how to love each other properly. ” explaining. “We both were raised in opposite households but weren’t taught how to love correctly.” She said. “A lot of that gets brushed over [but] as a child. he wasn’t taught how to love properly and I wasn’t taught how to love or receive love.” In an October 2025 episode of the “Human School” podcast. Jelly Roll described his infidelity as “one of the worst moments of my adulthood.”.
Their marriage history is tied to major milestones, too. Jelly Roll welcomed his son Noah Buddy with ex Melisa Ann Cowell the same month he tied the knot with Bunnie in August 2016. Jelly Roll and ex Felicia Beckwith also share an older daughter, Bailee Ann, born in 2008.
Even after publicly addressing their past, the couple has recently tried to show unity in front of the world. They were last spotted together at the 2026 Grammy Awards in February, where they cuddled and showed PDA on the red carpet.
Bunnie also published her own account of their relationship. Jelly Roll later spoke out about her memoir in which she described their marriage, his infidelity, and their sex life. On Tuesday. February 17. Jelly Roll told People that reading the book was “rough at times just for me to read it.” He added. “I wish our story would’ve went in the way that it never had an affair. I’m proud of who we are today. I truly am.”.
When it comes to the moment after the divorce filing, the next question is simple: what happens now.
Us reached out to representatives of both stars for comment. The new report leaves fans with a painful contrast—Bunnie’s intimate. cryptic posts appearing just before news of a divorce filing broke. against a backdrop of a marriage that they’ve repeatedly said was built through hard conversations and trying again.
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