Bunnie Xo Reveals Jelly Roll’s Emotional Plan for His GRAMMY Trophy
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Bunnie Xo Reveals Jelly Roll’s Emotional Plan for His GRAMMY Trophy

Jelly Roll may have left the GRAMMYs with a lot of new hardware, but it sounds like he’s already got plans for the new trophies. The “Son Of a Sinner” singer had a BIG night at the 68th Annual GRAMMY Awards this past weekend. He won three awards, one for Best Country Duo/Group Performance with his song “Amen” alongside Shaboozey, one for Best Contemporary Country Album for Beautifully Broken, and one for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song for “Hard Fought Hallelujah” with Brandon Lake. It was obviously an emotional night for Jelly, who used his acceptance speech to spread the gospel on a night when most of the winners chose to focus on politics: “First of all, Jesus I hear you and I am listening Lord. I am listening Lord. Second of all, I want to thank my beautiful wife. I would have never changed my life without you. I would have ended up dead or in jail or I would have killed myself if it wasn’t for you and Jesus. I thank you for that.” Jelly Roll went on to thank his record label, and shouted out country radio, which he’s had much success with in his still rising country music career. Once he got all of that out of the way though, Jelly Roll shifted into evangelist mode and basically told the story of his life, invited others to follow Christ, and proclaimed that the Lord doesn’t belong to one political party over the other: “There was a time in my life y’all that I was broken. That’s why I wrote this album. I didn’t think I had a chance y’all. There were times where I thought the darkest things and thought I was a horrible human. There was a moment in my life where all I had was a (pocket) Bible this big and a radio the same size in a six-by-eight-foot cell. I believed that those two things could change my life. I believed that music had the power to change my life, and God had the power to change my life. I want to tell you all right now that Jesus is for everybody. Jesus is not owned by one political party. Jesus is not owned by one music label. Jesus is Jesus and anybody can have a relationship with him. I love you Lord.” Jelly Roll delivers emotional Speech after winning best country album. pic.twitter.com/8XYSEQ5maw — TheHumanOpinion (@HumanOP69) February 2, 2026 Well with all that new hardware, where is Jelly Roll going to keep it? Turns out, at least for one of them, he isn’t. After the show, Jelly Roll’s wife Bunnie Xo revealed the heartwarming plan that the country superstar has for one of his trophies: He’s going to gift it to the Davidson County Juvenile Detention Center in Nashville, the same facility where Jelly was once locked up himself. “I know he’s going to give one to the Juvenile in Nashville to kind of give them a little inspiration and let them have a Grammy to themselves.” Jelly has spoken many times about the impact being locked up in that facility has had on him, including during a groundbreaking ceremony for a new detention center last year: “I celebrated my 14th, 15th, and 16th birthdays there. The only reason I wasn’t there at 17 was because I was charged as an adult.” It’s a time that he called “the most impactful” of his life during a 2022 interview with PEOPLE Magzine: “I was in and out of there for about three, three and a half years. I spent a lot of time there and eventually got charged as an adult for a crime I committed as a juvenile. And I just realized that was the most impactful thing that ever happened in my life, and the darkest moments of my life still were being that 15-year-old scared kid spending Thanksgiving away from his family.” Obviously Jelly now spends a lot of time and money to help those who are in the same situation he was in all those years ago, and is even funding the new juvenile justice center. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Jelly is donating his GRAMMY trophy to the center – something that clearly doesn’t surprise Bunnie either: “That is my husband. That’s what he does.” Say what you want in the comments, but you’ll never make me hate Jelly Roll. The post Bunnie Xo Reveals Jelly Roll’s Emotional Plan for His GRAMMY Trophy first appeared on Whiskey Riff.