Bunnie Xo is navigating her new life without husband Jelly Roll. She is being her usual brash self. Bunnie bought some very fancy wheels, is burnishing her brand, and dished freely about her ex's alleged cheating. Although it may seem like the popular podcaster and author is having a ball after disconnecting with her spouse, she is clearly still hurting. On the August 3 episode of her Dumb Blonde podcast, Bunnie talked openly about how she felt about Jelly Roll's alleged fling with someone else.
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"It's the Lies"
She frankly shared, "When I had gone through a situation with an affair, it's not the act that hurts you. It's the lies. It's just, like, whiplash." She did not outright invoke the "Need a Favor" singer's name. Nevertheless, everyone surely knew exactly who she meant.
Bunnie explained, "There's no way to feel good about it. Betrayal trauma literally rewires your brain to not trust people, to just feel disgusting because you're the last to know. Nobody ever wants to be the [expletive] last to know." She referred to it as "a different kind of hurt."
Jelly Roll Acknowledged His Mistake
Almost a year ago, before he and Bunnie split, Jelly Roll was on the Human School podcast. He admitted his unfaithfulness from way back. "I don't talk about this publicly at all, but one of the worst moments of my adulthood was when I had an affair on my wife." He further explained, "I was hanging around a bunch of people that were cheating on their wives."
He said that he made an effort to set things right with Bunnie. It apparently worked, at least for a time. "And we're stronger than we could have ever been," Jelly Roll concluded. Still, Bunnie had been awash in misery then. In her memoir, Stripped Down, she wrote, "The pain was so intense that I genuinely just wanted to end it all." Fortunately, she did not heed such dire thoughts.
Bunnie is resilient, as she has shown herself to be many times. It will be very interesting to see where her life and career path takes her next.
