In her first public comments since her divorce from Jelly Roll, Bunnie XO said the couple still plans to raise a child together through surrogacy, even as they split. She also described the argument that led to his court filing, and revisited the fertility jou
Bunnie XO didn’t wait for a courtroom update or a long public statement. On Thursday, during an episode of her Dumb Blonde podcast, she spoke plainly about the divorce—then pivoted to the part that still binds her to Jelly Roll.
“We’re going to co-parent together. ” she said. describing herself and her ex as “the most unconventional couple you guys have ever encountered.” In her telling. the split was not driven by betrayal. “J is my best friend. Like, this isn’t what you guys think this is. Nobody cheated on the other person. We just served our purpose for each other.”.
The conversation landed just weeks after the divorce became official in court records. Jelly Roll filed for divorce in Williamson County, Tennessee, on May 18, 2026, citing irreconcilable differences.
But Bunnie framed the ending as separate from their shared plan to become parents. The former couple revealed in February that they had secured a surrogate after years of fertility struggles. She said, even with the marriage over, they intend to raise the child together through that surrogacy arrangement.
She called it co-parenting—something that, in her view, can exist after romantic life changes.
The argument that shifted everything
Bunnie’s account includes the moment the divorce began to take shape. She described their relationship as one where conflict rarely surfaced until it did—then, she said, it went too far to ignore.
“The type of couple who never argued,” she said, before adding that they had “pretty much stopped communicating” over the previous year and a half. “He would be holding things in. I would be holding things in, and that’s a recipe for disaster.”
On Mother’s Day, she said they had a fight and that the details aren’t what she wants to spotlight. What she remembered clearly was the exhaustion in her own voice when she told him, “Well, then file the [expletive] divorce papers.”
In her telling, she packed a bag and left, and the two did not speak for weeks afterward.
“He was so mad and we were so emotional that he ended up doing exactly what I told him to do and filing the divorce papers,” she said.
And then came the part she didn’t hide: she didn’t think he would actually follow through.
“Was I blindsided? Was this divorce mutual? No,” she said.
Even so, Bunnie said she and her husband are ending the marriage “on the best possible terms,” adding that she spoke with him for two hours shortly before recording the podcast.
Fertility struggles that left marks
Their fertility journey is a major thread in their public story, and Bunnie connected the divorce to what came before it—especially the strain of years trying to have a child.
Over their 10-year marriage, Bunnie and Jelly Roll have spoken openly about fertility struggles, including trying multiple times and losing four embryos. Bunnie described the process as “hellacious.”
She said the experience “wrecked me emotionally, spiritually, physically,” and told listeners that both she and Jelly Roll underwent hormone treatments. She described herself becoming a “shell” during treatment, while saying Jelly Roll was a “nightmare to be around” once hormone treatments began.
In February 2026, Bunnie published her memoir Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, where she wrote that the couple had found a surrogate and stayed determined to have a child together.
“I’ve waited this long to have kids with someone I knew would be a great father — and to be able to make sure they have the best life,” Bunnie, 46, wrote of Jelly Roll, 41.
At the same time, her life with Jelly Roll included children from his previous relationships: she is the stepmother of Jelly Roll’s two children, Bailee Ann, 18, and Noah, 9.
Where things stand now
Bunnie’s first public comments since the divorce turned on a single through-line: the marriage ended, but the parenting plans did not. She said they will co-parent the baby they secured through surrogacy, and she insisted the divorce was not the result of cheating.
By her telling, the argument that followed years of quiet strain—when communication had “pretty much” stopped—set the divorce in motion. What the court records confirm is the filing date: May 18, 2026, in Williamson County, Tennessee, with irreconcilable differences.
What Bunnie is making clear, though, is the part her listeners may not expect: in her world, divorce can be real without being the end of shared responsibilities.
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