Bunnie Xo Drops a Divorce Bombshell: She and Jelly Roll Are Still Having a Baby
Bunnie Xo just confirmed the one thing nobody expected to hear after a divorce announcement. She and Jelly Roll are calling off their marriage, but they are not calling off their baby plans.
The podcaster broke her silence on the Thursday, June 18 episode of her show Dumb Blonde, walking fans through the split in real time. And buried in that conversation was a detail that stopped everyone in their tracks: the exes have already wrapped up their entire divorce settlement in what she says took two to three weeks.
So What Actually Happened Here
Bunnie Xo, real name Alisa DeFord, used her own platform to set the record straight after weeks of speculation. She confirmed she and Jelly Roll have decided to end their nearly ten-year relationship, but the pair still plan to have a child together and continue co-parenting. That alone tells you this was not your standard messy breakup.
She made it clear early on that she needed listeners to actually understand the full picture before jumping to conclusions. Bunnie said she wanted fans to grasp why the split happened, where it came from, and what comes next for both of them. That kind of framing right out of the gate tells you she knew the internet was already filling in blanks she had not confirmed yet.
The speed of the legal process is honestly the detail people aren’t talking about enough. Bunnie said the divorce was finalized in roughly two to three weeks, which is lightning-fast by celebrity divorce standards. She described their dynamic afterward in a way that flips the usual divorce narrative on its head, calling Jelly Roll her “best friend” and insisting nobody cheated on anyone.
The Quote That Explains Everything
Bunnie’s most direct line of the entire episode cut straight through the noise. We are still having a baby together, she said, confirming what fans had only speculated about since the divorce filing leaked. She explained that despite the split, the pair have been pursuing IVF for the past two years, going through three embryo transfers and losing four embryos along the way.
Bunnie described the toll directly, saying the embryo losses wrecked her “emotionally, spiritually, and physically” while both of them stayed on fertility hormones trying to make it work. She even floated the idea that she and Jelly Roll are “trauma-bonded” at this point, which honestly tracks given everything she described.
She also used the word “unconventional” to describe their setup moving forward, and it is hard to argue otherwise. Co-parenting a child you conceived during a marriage that just ended is not a script either of them had access to. Bunnie seems aware of how unusual this looks from the outside, but she is leaning into it anyway instead of hiding from it.
The Mother’s Day Fight That Started It All
Every divorce story has a moment where things actually broke, and Bunnie gave fans hers. She said the real turning point happened on Mother’s Day, when an argument escalated to the point where she told Jelly Roll to just file the divorce papers already.
What happened next is the part that makes this feel less like a calculated decision and more like raw emotion taking over. Bunnie packed a bag and left their home that same day. The two of them reportedly did not speak for weeks afterward, and she said Jelly Roll ended up doing exactly what she told him to do in the heat of the moment, filing the papers for real.
She was careful to clarify something important here. Bunnie said the divorce was “not mutual” and that her comment on Mother’s Day stemmed from anger rather than a planned decision. She also used the moment to shut down rumors of infidelity directly, stating plainly that “nobody cheated on anyone” in the relationship.
Jelly Roll Confirmed It Himself, Onstage
This is not just Bunnie’s version of events floating out there alone. Jelly Roll addressed the situation directly during a concert, telling the crowd that he and his wife remain best friends and that nobody cheated on anyone. He pointed fans to Bunnie’s podcast episode and publicly backed every word of it.
He got personal with his message too, thanking her for ten years of marriage and looking ahead to what comes next. Jelly Roll told the crowd he was grateful for the past decade together and was looking forward to years of friendship beyond it.
Having both people in a divorce confirm the same story on separate platforms within days of each other is rare, and it adds real weight to what Bunnie shared.
What Happens Next for Their Future Family
Bunnie says she plans to relocate to a portion of their shared property, along with their future child, as part of the settlement. She talked about looking forward to experiencing life through a kid’s eyes and made it clear she does not plan to let the difficult fertility journey stop that from happening.
She referred to the baby by a nickname, calling the child “Nugget”, and described plans to raise the baby as part of one extended, blended family unit. Bunnie has also written previously about the couple’s fertility journey, noting in her February memoir that they had already lined up a surrogate before the divorce became public.
This story is still unfolding, and there are real questions about what co-parenting will look like once the baby actually arrives. What is already clear is that modern celebrity divorces no longer follow a single script. Families are increasingly built around honesty and flexibility rather than the old assumption that a breakup has to end every shared plan two people once had.
