Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason DeFord, has filed for divorce from his wife, podcaster Bunnie XO (Alisa DeFord), in Tennessee after nearly a decade of marriage, according to court records reported June 15. The split comes after the couple spoke publicly a
Jelly Roll walked into a moment of triumph in February, clutching the Grammy for best contemporary country album and dedicating it to the woman beside him in the crowd. Months later, the marriage that played out publicly in wins and setbacks is headed toward an end.
Court records cited in reporting dated June 15 show that the 41-year-old “Son of a Sinner” singer—Jason DeFord—filed for divorce from his podcaster wife in Tennessee in May. His wife is 46-year-old Alisa DeFord, known as Bunnie XO. The couple married in 2016, making their split after nearly 10 years.
A representative for Jelly Roll and Bunnie’s representatives were contacted for comment.
The relationship hasn’t been private in the way many celebrity marriages are. Over the years. Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO have talked openly about family planning and infidelity. and about the work it took to keep going. That candor resurfaced during an October 2025 episode of the “Human School” podcast. when Jelly Roll described his own behavior in stark terms.
“One of the worst moments of my adulthood was when I had an affair on my wife,” he said on the podcast.
Jelly Roll also said the couple put in “a lot of work to repair” what happened and became “stronger than we could have ever been.” He did not provide further details about what the affair involved or when it occurred, but he acknowledged a wider pattern in his surroundings.
“I was hanging around a bunch of people that were cheating on their wives,” he said.
He framed the aftermath as both painful and formative. “I wish our story would’ve went in the way that it never had an affair, and I’m in a way glad it happened, but man, I’m proud of who we are today,” Jelly Roll said. “I truly am.”
Bunnie XO’s own public reflections add another layer to the timeline. In a 2024 TikTok post, she told fans that the pair briefly split in 2018. “We finally committed to each other and did everything we promised each other the first night in 2016,” she wrote. “Our castle in the sand had to crumble so we could rebuild on solid ground.”.
In between those personal milestones, their efforts to build a family were also part of the storyline. They survived cheating and discussed plans to undergo IVF.
The sequence of what they chose to share—public acknowledgments of infidelity. a break in 2018. the pursuit of IVF. and the insistence on repairing their relationship—now sits alongside a new reality marked by a divorce filing in Tennessee in May. For fans who watched the couple’s recovery play out in real time. the stakes feel immediate: the question isn’t whether they endured hardship. but what happens when even a repaired marriage reaches its breaking point.
Jelly Roll’s Grammy moment in February. when he dedicated the trophy to Bunnie and she wept and applauded from the audience. stands in sharp contrast to the court filings now at the center of the news. With the divorce initiated after nearly a decade together. the public chapter that once emphasized rebuilding is shifting to a new and uncertain one.
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