Jelly Roll spoke out about wife Bunnie Xo‘s memoir, which featured surprise revelations about their marriage, his infidelity and their sex life, for the first time.
“It was rough at times just for me to read it,” Jelly Roll, 41, told People on Tuesday, February 17, about Bunnie Xo’s Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic.
The country singer praised Bunnie Xo, 46, for being honest about their experience, adding, “We went through a lot of pain and having to go through it together, but reading the whole book and seeing where it ended at is really touching.”
Jelly Roll continued: “I’m just proud of her for telling her story so unapologetically. I mean, she talks about everything fearlessly, from domestic assault to sexual assault. I’m just proud of her. She’s so brave.”
The biggest revelations from Stripped Down included a timeline of Jelly’s Roll past infidelity, which led to Bunnie Xo nearly taking her own life. (The pair wed in 2016.)
Bunnie Xo also noted in her memoir that Jelly Roll was “used to having multiple relationships at the same time with different women.” They initially “both frowned upon monogamy.”
“That’s not to say that we agreed to go f*** whoever we wanted whenever we wanted — to me that’s what an open relationship is, and we aren’t in one. But if a girl wanted to come home with us, we more than likely wouldn’t turn her down,” she wrote. “Now, here comes the part that might surprise you. J has always told me that I can sleep with other men if I want to. … We argued about it many times until I finally just accepted the fact that that’s who he is. I’m not going to try to change him into something he’s not — and I started to agree with him. We both live by the motto that we aren’t each other’s possessions and consider our relationship to be free, not open. Free will. Which means: I’ll give you the world sexually, but don’t f***king lie to me or ever let me be the last to know something.”
Before Stripped Down was released, Bunnie Xo spoke exclusively to Us Weekly about why she didn’t skip over the rough moments in her marriage.
“I tried to be as real as possible with the situation,” she shared earlier this month. “I think I might have even toned it down. It’s just really important to be real. My husband is my best friend. I f***ing love that man — and we have been through hell.”
The content creator noted how she learned that “love isn’t always pretty.”
“It’s raw, it’s emotional and it’s a journey,” she added. “I’m so happy for people who have never had to go through anything traumatic in their relationships. But I just feel like my husband and I had to go through that because it’s part of our testimony. It’s a part of what we’ve survived — we choose to be together every day.”
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