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Not ready to speak on it – yet. It’s been just under a month since Jelly Roll filed for divorce from his wife Bunnie Xo after 10 years of marriage, though we just learned about the bombshell yesterday when the complaint was first reported by TMZ. Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason DeFord, filed for divorce from his wife Bunnie Xo, whose real name is Alisa DeFord, back on May 18 in Williamson County Chancery Court, just outside of Nashville. Neither of the two have publicly addressed the separation, though TMZ reported that it was a “mutual decision” and a “private family matter.” Whiskey Riff obtained a copy of the divorce complaint that was filed by the “Save Me” singer, which reveals that the couple separated on May 9, a week and a half before the request for a divorce was filed. He cites “irreconcilable differences” as the grounds for the divorce, which in Tennessee is a no-fault grounds for divorce that means that the parties agree on the terms of the separation. According to the complaint: “The Husband would respectfully show unto the Court that these parties are unable to live together successfully as Husband and Wife. Plaintiff charges that the parties have suffered irreconcilable differences as would entitle either of them to a divorce.” Now, that language is largely statutory, meaning it’s just what they have to say in order to meet the legal requirements for an irreconcilable differences divorce, and may make the situation sound worse than it really is. But regardless, Jelly Roll’s daughter Bailee Ann is making clear that she doesn’t appreciate how invested everyone is in the divorce since the news became public. In a story posted to her TikTok, the 18-year old Bailee made clear that the family plans to stay quiet on the situation – at least for now: “I am disgusted at how invested everyone is in a very clearly private family matter. It’s fkn crazy. Go on somewhere yall. Worry bout your house – not mine. I’m not speaking on it – yet.” Bailee Ann/TikTok Obviously you can’t blame her for not wanting to address it during what’s no doubt a difficult time for her and everyone else in their family. But it’s no doubt a departure from how open the couple have been on their relationship – including their struggles – during their time together. Jelly and Bunnie were married back in 2016 before renewing their vows in 2023, and have been incredibly transparent about their relationship, including their struggles along the way. As Bunnie has discussed in the past, the two separated not long after getting married when she discovered that Jelly Roll was having an affair with an ex of his: “We got married in 2016. The affair was started with an ex in 2017, and then I think I found out about it early on in 2018.” During an appearance last year on the Human School Podcast with Miles Adcox, Jelly Roll also opened up on the affair, saying that it led him to question whether he would ever be able to clean up his act: “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. Because it was the first time that I was like, ‘I really can’t get this right at all.’ Like, I know I’m in love with this woman. It was just such a – like it just really, really, really blew me back.” If you’re not familiar with Bunnie, she’s actually got a pretty incredible story herself. The host of the Dumb Blonde Podcast who’s built up a massive following of her own, she actually started out as a high-end escort in Las Vegas, which is what she was doing when her and Jelly Roll first met. During an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast a while back, Jelly Roll discussed being homeless when he first met his wife: “My wife grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada. My wife was a high-end escort her whole life. That’s what she did when I met her. I was broke. I was living in a 1996 van. Literally. Didn’t have a house. And this woman has like two condos and a few sports cars. She’s f–king BALLING.” More recently, the couple had been open about their struggles trying to conceive a child through IVF, with hopes of conceiving twins through a surrogate: “Now that we’re finally stable financially and somewhat emotionally after all the healing we’ve done over this decade together, we’re talking about the future—­including growing our family. J and I have a surrogate, the sweetest woman ever, and soon I’ll be starting my IVF stims.” And last fall, she even clapped back at trolls who questioned why she hadn’t been seen publicly with her husband: “Somebody said the other day, they’re like, ‘They used to always be together. Now you never see them together. I’m like, do you guys not know for the past six months I’ve been trying to make a baby? Like, my husband has to work to f***ing bring home the bacon. Luckily, I have the luxury of being able to work from home. So he doesn’t. He has to make appearances. But I literally have been on IVF meds for f***ing six months and going through heartbreak and f***ing so much s***.” Neither Jelly Roll nor Bunnie have commented on the divorce filing, so we don’t know what happened to lead to the separation. Jelly Roll is currently on the road with Post Malone for his Big Ass Stadium Tour while also headlining his own Little Ass Shed Tour. But before news broke of the divorce, Bunnie shared a video of herself singing along to Nickelback’s “How You Remind Me.”The post Jelly Roll’s Daughter Addresses Divorce Between Her Father & Bunnie Xo: “Disgusted At How Invested Everyone Is” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

It wasn’t a perfect relationship, but none of them are. As first reported by TMZ, Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason DeFord, filed for divorce from his wife Bunnie Xo, whose real name is Alisa DeFord, back on May 18 in Williamson County Chancery Court, just outside of Nashville. They were married for nearly ten years, and while neither of the two have publicly addressed the separation, though TMZ reported that it was a “mutual decision” and a “private family matter.” Whiskey Riff obtained a copy of the divorce complaint that was filed by the “Save Me” singer, which reveals that the couple separated on May 9, a week and a half before the request for a divorce was filed. He cites “irreconcilable differences” as the grounds for the divorce, which in Tennessee is a no-fault grounds for divorce that means that the parties agree on the terms of the separation. Jelly Roll has hired Rose Palermo, a high-profile divorce attorney to the stars who has represented other celebrities like Kelsea Ballerini, Kristin Cavallari, Conway Twitty, Wynona Judd, and many, many more. For her part, Bunnie is represented by Neil Campbell of Campbell Perky Johnson, PLLC, a Nashville-based divorce firm. The couple were married back in 2016 before renewing their vows in 2023, and have been incredibly transparent about their relationship, including their struggles along the way. In an interview just a couple months ago with E! News, Bunnie explained that they were in a “beautiful place,” but things weren’t always sunshine and rainbows between them: “I want people to know, ‘Hey, it took a lot of work, guts and grit to get to where we are, Everything’s beautiful now, but it wasn’t in the beginning. Just us being together was just two souls that were merging that were broken and just formed a whole piece. And we helped each other heal, and we have continued to elevate and grow in these past 10 years. I couldn’t be happier. That dude’s my best friend.” She released her memoir in February, called Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, where she details a ton of information about their marriage, from how they met in August of 2015, when Jelly was just starting out and living in a van, and she admits that he was not her type, but the second she met him, she felt like she’d known him her whole life. After months of texting, they eventually decided to give it chance, even though Bunnie admits Jelly was not her usual type: “J wasn’t my type—­I love tough guys, or goth, emo boys in eyeliner. I wasn’t his type either. So why the hell was my soul telling me there he is the minute we met? I couldn’t explain it. Our chemistry was insane, we couldn’t keep our hands off each other.” They went through a lot, Bunnie was still a high-end call girl at the time and making a ton of money, and Jelly was not bothered by her line of work… she says he viewed her as a hard worker, and unlike everyone else she’d ever dated, he’d never made her feel bad for what she did. Eventually, she left sex work behind, though for years, Bunnie and Jelly had what she described as a “free” relationship, where it wasn’t always just the two of them. She explained in the book that she thought allowing third parties in would save the relationship from the cheating she’d always experienced in her other relationships: “I thought my openness and willingness to have third parties would save me from all the other cheating I’d experienced in my life. But if a girl wanted to come home with us, we more than likely wouldn’t turn her down.” And if Bunnie ever wanted to get with another man, Jelly had no problem with it, which she was hurt by at first, saying she felt: “Like he didn’t really love me if he wasn’t possessive and jealous. We both live by the motto that we aren’t each other’s possessions, and consider our relationship to be free, not open.” But she did have one rule, that he could never “lie” to her or let her “be the last to know something,” and ultimately, Jelly did have an affair with another woman, which Bunnie found out about after a long time of being suspicious, around 2018. He denied it for a long time, but eventually, she figured it out, and Jelly moved out and wanted to end his marriage with Bunnie. She says the pain was “so intense” that she wanted to “end it all,” and after all of it, she swore she would never speak to him again. The woman having the affair with Jelly eventually admitted everything, and Bunnie says she was most hurt by the emotional aspect of the cheating, rather than the physical: “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. And out of everything, that’s what made me sick. It wasn’t about him f****** this broad—­it was about emotionally cheating and then wanting her to play mommy to a little girl I’d fallen in love with.” Yeah, I’m not sure most people could come back from something like that… Eventually, though, she did forgive Jelly, though she admits it took a long time for her to put the emotions she had from the affair aside: “When a man puts you through something like that, you never stop loving them, you just love them differently. Your heart is more guarded. Less trusting. Cracked. I’m not going to pretend that we just went back to normal. 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.” Bunnie and Jelly have both noted in separate interviews that they’re no longer in a “free marriage” and that it’s been exclusive for a long time. Last year, Bunnie addressed those rumors directly saying that they were never in an open marriage to begin with, and that they just didn’t believe in controlling one another. However, she says that their willingness to have other people in bed with them ended a long time ago: “You guys are clipping clips from like 6 years ago… We have completely stopped all of those shenanigans because you can’t trust anybody in the world. Back in the day, that was how we looked at our relationship.” @ohheyitsbunnie Last time I’m ever addressing this, let’s move on shall we? #jellyandbunnie ♬ original sound – Bunnie From the outside looking in, it seemed like they had a pretty strong marriage by the end of it, and like I mentioned, they’ve always been very open about their struggles, so it’s no secret it hasn’t always been easy for them. Just a few months, during her book tour interview with Howard Stern, Bunnie said they were in a great place and gonna ride it out together until the end. It seems like something has changed and I’m not going to speculate on what that could be. You never really know what’s going on in people’s lives, and hopefully, the divorce can be as smooth as possible, and for the children that Bunnie has helped raise, hopefully they can remain close with her and continue to be a family in a different way now.The post Bunnie XO Previously Opened Up About “Free” Marriage & Jelly Roll’s Infidelity, But Squashed Rumor They Had An “Open Marriage” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

There’s one thing that gets under Charles Wesley Godwin’s skin more than anything else. The West Virginia native is proud to be from the Mountaineer State, and he makes that apparent at pretty much every one of his live shows. The John Denver hit “Take Me Home, Country Roads” is a usual part of his set list, and the country artist even penned his own song called “Cue Country Roads” as a tribute to that track and his home state. So as you might imagine, he gets really, really upset when people insist that Denver’s classic song is about Virginia… and not West Virginia. In a recent interview with The Brothers Hunt, Godwin got to talking about West Virginia Mountaineers sporting events. He was letting those that aren’t familiar with the tradition know that, following wins, Mountaineers players, coaches and the fans come together to sing “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” The thing that gets Godwin riled up? People insisting that the song is actually about Virginia instead of West Virginia: “Every time, man. And inevitably, there’s always that person that’s like, ‘You know, the song is about Virginia or about western Virginia.’ Those people drive me f***ing nuts. It’s the smuggest, most annoying thing ever (when they say), ‘It’s about Virginia actually.’ If you’re coming from D.C., swing through Harper’s Ferry and tell me it’s about Virginia, not West Virginia, it drives me nuts… It’s about West Virginia.” Tell us how you really feel, Charles Wesley Godwin. Outside of a live CWG show (which are electric), that’s about as animated as you’ll ever see or hear the country singer. And he’s so passionate about it because he knows, for a fact, that John Denver’s famous tune is about West Virginia: “First off, I know this for a fact. I have a song called ‘Cue Country Roads,’ which I made that for the Mountaineers. I wanted them to play it at games and stuff. That had to go through John Denver’s estate. They have a manager, and I think it’s because John died unexpectedly… they manage his music and continue to this day. ‘Cue Country Roads,’ I paid a royalty to John Denver’s estate to have that song. I met the manager, I met family members and stuff. That song is about West Virginia.” When the “All Again” singer actually sat down with the managers and family to get all of the “Cue Country Roads” stuff squared, he actually got the origin story of the song. Sorry to let down all of the people out there who think the song is about Virginia… but I’m happy to confirm that Godwin and the rest of the Mountaineers out there are right. “Take Me Home, Country Roads” is about, and was inspired by, West Virginia: “The story goes, they were writing it. They played in D.C. the night before and they’re headed west and they were going through like the eastern panhandle and gone through Harper’s Ferry and all and they were writing the song that day in the car. The Blue Ridge mountains are on the eastern side of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, but it can be an adjective as well, cause all the Appalachians look blue when you see them out in the distance. The Shenandoah River runs right through that part of the eastern panhandle.” There you have it. Charles Wesley Godwin landed his argument by once again sharing that nothing gets hid blood boiling more than people who think they know more about “Take Me Home, Country Roads” than everyone else: “It makes me so mad. Every time, inevitably, there’s someone on Twitter, some smug sports writer that’s like, ‘Actually, the song…’ They always think when they say it too that they are the only one that has had that thought. It drives me up the wall.” And hey… I mentioned earlier that Charles Wesley Godwin puts on some high-energy concerts. Do yourself a favor and go see him play sometime this year (so you can hear him play “Take Me Home, Country Roads” and “Cue Country Roads”). Charles Wesley Godwin 2026 Tour Dates Jul 2 – Calgary, AB – Cowboys Music Festival Jul 10 – Saint Paul, MN – Minnesota Country Club Festival Jul 14 – Sioux Falls, SD – The District Jul 17 – Emigrant, MT – The Old Saloon Jul 18 – Kalispell, MT – Majestic Valley Arena Jul 19 – Whitefish, MT – Under the Big Sky Festival Jul 22 – Jackson, WY – Teton County Fair Aug 4 – San Francisco, CA- Regency Aug 6 – Sacramento, CA – Channel 24 Aug 7 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern Aug 8 – San Diego, CA – SOMA Aug 13 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Aug 14 – Phoenix, AZ – Van Buren Aug 21 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground Aug 22 – Toronto, ON – History Aug 27 – Oklahoma City, OK – Criterion Aug 28 – Lubbock, TX – Cook’s Garage* Aug 29 – New Braunfels, TX – Whitewater Amphitheater* Sept 11 – Baltimore, MD – Pier Six Sept 12 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner Sept 17 – Landmark Theatre – Syracuse, NY Sept 18 – Philadelphia, PA – Fillmore Sept 23 – Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center# Sept 26 – Nashville, TN – The Pinnacle* Sept 29 – New York, NY – The Rooftop at Pier 17* Sept 30 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena# Oct 1 – Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater* Oct 9 – North Charleston, SC – Riverfront Revival Oct 15 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre Oct 17 – Garden City, ID – Revolution Concert House Oct 18 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom Oct 21 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory Oct 22 – Seattle, WA – SoDo Oct 24 – Vancouver, BC – Orpheum Theater Nov 5 – Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre Nov 6 – Charleston, WV – Charleston Coliseum Nov 7 – Cincinnati, OH – MegaCorp Pavilion Nov 12 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed Nov 13 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Nov 14 – St. Louis, MO – Factory * co-headline with Dylan Gossett # supporting Kacey MusgravesThe post Charles Wesley Godwin Shuts Down Claim That John Denver’s “Country Roads” Isn’t About West Virginia: “It Makes Me So Mad” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.