Jelly Roll, Bunnie Xo hinted at divorce weeks before the news broke with cryptic lyrics and missing rings
Weeks before news broke that Jelly Roll had filed for divorce from Bunnie Xo, the pair had seemingly been dropping subtle hints of marriage woes. From cryptic song lyrics to ditched wedding rings, the signs were there — they just went largely unnoticed.
Jelly Roll filed for divorce on May 18 in Williamson County, Tennessee, according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital. The 41-year-old country star listed the date of separation as May 9 and cited irreconcilable differences.
On May 20, two days after Jelly Roll's filing, Bunnie took to TikTok to share some intuitive thoughts.
"Women’s intuition when that s--- don’t add up" she captioned the video.
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"She been dropping hints this whole time and we missed it lol," one fan commented, after the divorce news had broke.
"Bunnie was dropping the tea in real time and we all did not clock it," another added.
On June 4, Jelly Roll performed at CMA Fest in Nashville sans his wedding ring.
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One day later, Bunnie shared a peaceful video of herself riding a horse in the countryside. She accompanied the video with lyrics from Aerosmith's "What It Takes" and a caption that read, "Wild hearts can’t be broken."
"There goes my old girlfriend / There's another diamond ring / And all those late night promises I guess they don't mean a thing / So baby, what's the story? Did you find another man?"
On June 6, Bunnie posted another cryptic video of herself enjoying the serene outdoors with some girlfriends. She paired the video with lyrics from the Goo Goo Dolls' hit "Name."
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"Did you lose yourself somewhere out there / Did you get to be a star? / And don't it make you sad to know that life / Is more than who we are?"
Hours before the divorce news went public on Monday, Bunnie posted a video of herself lip-syncing the lyrics to Nickelback's "How You Remind Me." Bonnie's wedding ring was visibly missing.
"It's not like you didn't know that / I said, 'I love you,' and I swear, I still do / And it must have been so bad / 'Cause living with me must have d--n near killed you."
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That same day, Bunnie posted a sexy picture of herself on Instagram in pink lingerie, writing, "She’s getting her sparkle back."
In a photo obtained by TMZ, movers were seen parked outside the couple's Tennessee home on Monday.
Representatives for Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Bunnie, whose real name is Alisa DeFord, and Jelly Roll tied the knot in August 2016 during a whirlwind Las Vegas ceremony, after meeting the year prior.
The "Stripped Down" author has previously opened up about their up-and-down relationship, in her memoir "Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic."
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Bunnie laid bare her chaotic upbringing and the emotional highs and lows that defined the early years of her relationship with the singer-songwriter.
Long before they became one of country music’s closely watched couples, the pair weathered difficult truths — including the night Bunnie learned Jelly Roll's ex-fling was waiting for him "in a hotel room down the street."
When I found out about it, I was devastated," she told Fox News Digital in February. "I was hurt because I didn’t think he would be the one person to do that. I thought he was different. And at that moment, my heart was broken. But instead of getting mad at him, I asked myself, ‘Why do I keep attracting these kinds of men?’"
Bunnie admitted she hadn’t envisioned a conventional marriage.
"I think a lot of people need to realize that coming into this marriage, we weren’t a traditional bride and groom," she explained.
"I was a working girl, and he was an ex-drug dealer — a gangster-turned-struggling artist. There’s a different set of rules on the street than there are in what I’d call traditional marriages. If you’ve never lived that lifestyle, you’re not going to understand. But of course, cheating is wrong across the board — it doesn’t matter."
In the memoir, Bunnie also recalled learning about the alleged ex-fling.
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"Are you f---ing kidding me?" she wrote. "We had an agreement.... Folks started DM'ing me on social media, telling me that J was with his ex-fling. The pieces started to fit together, and it became easier to disconnect from him.... I went completely silent and didn't reach out to J or answer any calls."
Looking back, Bunnie told Fox News Digital there were many reasons her initial "fairy tale" had become a nightmare.
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"It’s not so much what was going on in our marriage," she said. "It was more of my husband had a hard time letting go of the past. I had a hard time letting go of the past. We also didn’t really think the relationship was going to work.
"I think a lot of it boiled down to self-worth on both parts. My husband didn't think he'd ever meet a woman who really loved him for him and just wanted to see him succeed without some of them wanting to change him.... And I had brought so much baggage into the relationship."
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After intense couples' therapy, the pair eventually came to terms with how to properly communicate with one another.
"We ended up coming back together," said Bunnie. "We were like, ‘I want to grow. I don’t want to be this person. I choose you. I’m going to become everything that you’ve ever wanted me to be.’"
"I’m going to be a wife, and he’s going to become everything I ever wanted him to be; a husband and a father to the kids," she shared. "We just made that decision from then on to just be better humans and to break every generational curse that we had ever inherited. I was ready for a change. So was he. So we set out together to heal and grow together."
"We learned that marriage is not one-size-fits-all," Bunnie reflected. "Each person and each relationship is completely different than the next person’s. But you do have to wake up and choose that person even on days that you don’t like them."
Fox News Digital's Sarah Sotoodeh and Stephanie Nolasco contributed to this post.