After Nearly a Decade, Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo Call It Quits

It’s the split nobody saw coming—or at least, that’s what the couple wanted everyone to believe. On Monday, June 15, rapper and country artist Jelly Roll (real name Jason Bradley DeFord) filed for divorce from his wife Bunnie Xo (real name Alisa Andrea Carter) after nearly 10 years of marriage. The two tied the knot in August 2016, and according to court documents obtained in June 2026, their date of separation was May 9, 2026—meaning the end came quietly, just weeks before the public announcement.

The irony is thick here. Back in August 2025, just months before the split, Bunnie Xo dismissed rumors of marital trouble on her podcast,“Dumb Blonde.”When someone suggested the couple wasn’t being seen together as much anymore, she pushed back hard: they’d been trying to have a baby for the past six months, she explained. It’s a reminder that what unfolds on social media rarely tells the whole story—and that sometimes the narrative people defend most fiercely is the one already crumbling behind closed doors.

The filing itself is straightforward: Jelly Roll cited“irreconcilable differences”as the reason for the split, stating that the“parties are unable to live together successfully as Husband and Wife.”Court documents indicate he’s proposing an equitable division of marital assets and shared responsibility for debts accumulated during the marriage. The couple has no children together, though Jelly Roll is father to daughter Bailee Ann (born in 2008 while serving a prison sentence for drug dealing) and son Noah Buddy (born in August 2016, the same month he married Bunnie Xo).

What happens next depends on whether the two can agree on a Marital Dissolution Agreement. Jelly Roll’s docs suggest he anticipates they will work out the details and present them to the court after the statutory waiting period expires. It’s a civil approach to an unceremonious end—no public drama, no heated accusations, just the legal machinery grinding forward.

For fans who watched this relationship play out across Instagram and podcast episodes, there’s bound to be questions. But the court filings won’t answer them. They never do. What we know is this: a marriage that seemed solid enough for the couple to defend publicly just months ago is now officially over. Sometimes that’s all the detail the public gets.