A Timeline of Jelly Roll & Bunnie Xo’s Relationship

Jelly met Bunnie in 2015, with the latter watching the former perform at Sin City’s Country Saloon in Las Vegas. Seven years later in an interview with Taste of Country Nights, the Grammy winner recalled how the pair “hit it off” quickly.

“She said she fell in love with the saddest eyes in the room,” Jelly said, noting that Bunnie had been in an abusive relationship at the time, but ended it soon after. “I’m not going to act like I shot my shot. She kind of shot hers. We had mutual friends. She said, ‘Yo. Just plug me in with Jelly.’ And I hit her on some other s–t. I was like, ‘Yo. I’m going to be coming out to shoot some content and video stuff. She was like, ‘Yeah! C’mon!’ I was like, ‘Cool, well I’m living in my van, so I’ll leave now.’”

Later, in her 2026 memoir Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, Bunnie described how Jelly wanted to take things slow after their friendship evolved into something more. “He was so shy!” she recalled of the first time she tried to initiate sex with Jelly, who instead wanted to talk about their long-term goals. “By seven a.m., we’d landed on the same page and sobered up,” she wrote. “‘Pinky promise we’re going to make these dreams come true?’ he asked, holding out his little finger. I hooked mine around his. ‘Pinky promise,’ I said.”

The couple tied the knot at a small chapel in Las Vegas — the same city where their romance first began — in August 2016.

As time went on, Bunnie would blend in as a crucial part of Jelly’s family — with the musician later crediting her with helping him get custody of his daughter, Bailee, and taking in his son, Noah, like one of her own.

Jelly and Bunnie have been open about the fact that they briefly split up in 2018, as well as the fact that their marriage struggled in its early years due to Jelly’s infidelity.

In her 2026 memoir, Bunnie detailed how she caught Jelly having a 10-month affair with one of his exes, whom the influencer confronted over the phone. “She told me about how he got a house for them to live in and he wanted her to stay at home and take care of Bailee,” Bunnie recalled in the book. “And out of everything, that’s what made me sick. It wasn’t about him f–king this broad — ­it was about emotionally cheating and then wanting her to play mommy to a little girl I’d fallen in love with.”

“One of the worst moments of my adulthood was when I had an affair on my wife,” Jelly said in an October 2025 appearance on the podcast Human School. “Because it was the first time that I was like, ‘I really can’t get this right at all. I know I’m in love with this woman.’ It was just such a… just really, really, really blew me back.”

Through lots of hard conversations and work, Bunnie and Jelly found their way back to a happier place together — but it wasn’t easy. “I’m not going to pretend that we just went back to normal,” she wrote in her memoir. “It would take years for me to put the affair aside. It would take years to actually feel like this man loved me — that I wasn’t disposable.”

In his 2023 Billboard cover story, Jelly referred to Bunnie as a “beacon of change” in his life. “You’re talking about a woman that came in and took a child that was soon to be born and a child that [we were] soon to have full custody of,” he also said at the time. “I would have never got custody of my daughter without her. I wouldn’t have had the stability or the money.”

Seven years after tying the knot, Jelly and Bunnie returned to the site of their nuptials and renewed their vows.

“Everybody says to do it in 10 years, but we’ve heard about the seven-year itch,” the musician told Audacy’s Superstar Power Hour around that time. “So we’re like, let’s get ahead of this thing. Let’s double down on year seven.”

Jelly first revealed that he and his wife were seeking to grow their family by welcoming children via IVF on the Bussin’ With the Boys podcast in June 2024. “My wife and I are talking about having a baby, and it really made me realize that at almost 40, I was like, it means I got to live to at least 60. I got to see this kid into college,” he said at the time.

Shortly afterward, Bunnie wrote on Instagram: “Papa Bear dropped a surprise on this pod today. We had planned on doing this privately, but decided our IVF journey needed to be shared because we’ve always been so open.”

Over time, the podcaster would continue sharing updates with fans about her IVF treatments and the toll they took on her body. Later, in her 2026 memoir, Bunnie revealed that she and Jelly had already chosen a surrogate.

“J and I have a surrogate, the sweetest woman ever, and soon I’ll be starting my IVF stims,” she wrote. “With how much IVF has advanced over the years, and with the help of the most unselfish woman willing to carry twins for us, we’ll be able to make our baby dreams come true.”

Sharing photos of themselves laughing and in love, Jelly and Bunnie celebrated nearly a decade of marriage with a Sept. 2 joint post on Instagram.

“Life is ours, we live it our way,” they wrote. “9 years of us.”

“I love more and more every single day,” Jelly also added on his Story.

As confirmed by Billboard about a month after the fact, Jelly filed for divorce from Bunnie after nearly a decade of marriage on May 18, 2026. The split was characterized as a mutual decision, with the podcaster planning to continue coparenting her stepchildren, Bailee and Noah.

Between filing for divorce and the public finding out about it, Jelly appeared at CMA Fest in early June without his black wedding ring.

The same day that Jelly’s filing came to light on June 15, 2026, Bunnie shared a photo of herself modeling lingerie and wrote, “She’s getting her sparkle back” — seemingly sharing a cryptic update amid the divorce news.

In a Dumb Blonde episode posted shortly after her split from Jelly went public, Bunnie shed some light on what happened. According to the podcaster, she had dared the country star to file divorce papers while in the heat of an argument that took place on Mother’s Day, but she didn’t think he’d actually do it.

“Was this divorce mutual? No, it was not mutual, even though I told him to file the divorce papers, I was speaking out of anger and just frustration,” she said on the episode. “But was it necessary for us to have a wake-up call? … Absolutely. … My husband and I are ending this marriage on the best possible terms that you could ever have a divorce.”

She also clarified that neither party cheated on the other, and that she and Jelly were still planning to move forward with IVF treatments in order to have a baby together. “We’re going to co-parent together,” she said. “He’s my best friend … We’re going to raise our little nugget as one big, happy family.”

Shortly after Bunnie posted her podcast episode about the divorce, Jelly made his first public comment in regards to their split while on stage at a concert in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

“Me and my wife are best friends,” he said. “We will always be best friends. We just got off the phone earlier today. Nobody cheated on nobody … Bunnie, I love you, baby. Thank you for those 10 years.”

In July, Jelly and Bunnie reportedly finalized their divorce about two months after the singer first filed. According to People, court documents showed that the pair would split their properties, vehicles and an aircraft between them, and that Jelly would also make a “one-time, confidential lump sum payment to Bunnie, so there will be no alimony claims to be made in court.”