Just months before Jelly Roll filed for divorce from wife Bunnie Xo, she opened up about infidelity, arguments and their rocky newlywed days in her memoir.
The 41-year-old "Son of a Sinner" singer – whose real name is Jason DeFord – filed for divorce from his podcaster wife, whose real name is Alisa DeFord, on May 18, according to court records reviewed by USA TODAY on Monday, June 15. A divorce filing obtained by the USA TODAY Network noted the couple separated on May 9. The couple had been married for 10 years.
In "Stripped Down" (published Feb. 17 from Dey Street Books), Bunnie takes readers back to their first meeting at his concert in Las Vegas and the spontaneous courthouse wedding shortly after. What follows is a whirlwind relationship involving the couple's custody battle for Jelly Roll's daughter from a previous marriage, an affair, an abrupt move out, a sour stint in marriage counseling and, eventually, reconciliation. The producers of "Landman" and "Yellowstone" have acquired the rights for a film adaptation of the memoir, Variety reported in March.
"If we're far from perfect now, we were farther then," she writes.
When the couple got full custody of Jelly Roll's daughter early in their relationship, they moved to Nashville. But, as Bunnie writes in her memoir, coming back to Nashville meant that "women from J's past were resurfacing."
The 41-year-old "Son of a Sinner" singer – whose real name is Jason DeFord – filed for divorce from his podcaster wife, whose real name is Alisa DeFord, on May 18, according to court records reviewed by USA TODAY on Monday, June 15. A divorce filing obtained by the USA TODAY Network noted the couple separated on May 9. The couple had been married for 10 years.
In "Stripped Down" (published Feb. 17 from Dey Street Books), Bunnie takes readers back to their first meeting at his concert in Las Vegas and the spontaneous courthouse wedding shortly after. What follows is a whirlwind relationship involving the couple's custody battle for Jelly Roll's daughter from a previous marriage, an affair, an abrupt move out, a sour stint in marriage counseling and, eventually, reconciliation. The producers of "Landman" and "Yellowstone" have acquired the rights for a film adaptation of the memoir, Variety reported in March.
"If we're far from perfect now, we were farther then," she writes.
When the couple got full custody of Jelly Roll's daughter early in their relationship, they moved to Nashville. But, as Bunnie writes in her memoir, coming back to Nashville meant that "women from J's past were resurfacing."
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