Jelly Roll has shut down claims that his wife Bunnie Xo married him for his money and his response is as disarming as it is funny.
speaks to Taste country nightsthe 41-year-old rapper said he actually enjoys hearing the gold digger’s accusations, though his wife is less amused.
“I love it when they call her a gold digger,” he said. “She hates it. It just burns her up.”
For Jelly Roll, however, the proposal is simply too absurd to take seriously.
“It just tickles me pink because when I met her I was homeless living out of a 1996 conversion van, so if anyone was digging for gold it was me, Popeye. I sat and surfed and made it to the bedroom.”
Bunnie Xo, 46, has been married to Jelly Roll since 2016 and the pair have built a reputation for their refreshing honesty about their relationship, the good parts and the hard.
That openness is at the heart of Bunnie Xo’s memoir Stripped Down: Unfiltered and unapologeticwhich came out in February and includes candid accounts of their early relationship, including Jelly Roll’s infidelity.
“I tried to be as real as possible with the situation,” she shared Us Weekly. “I think I might have even downplayed it.”
Jelly Roll had nothing but admiration for what his wife had written.
“I’m just proud of her for telling her story so unapologetically,” he said. “She speaks fearlessly about everything from domestic violence to sexual assault. I’m just proud of her. She’s so brave.”
