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The story of how Jelly Rolly & Bunnie XO met

Bunny XO and Jelly Roll‘s love story began in Las Vegas.

Seam she remembered Bussin’ With The Boysshe met the singer in August 2015 when he performed at the Las Vegas Country Club. That was before the Jelly Roll became famous. At the time, he was living in a van and he estimated about 20 people were at the show.

Instead, their spark took center stage.

“When I met him, I tell everybody it’s the most f–king cliche st, but literally my soul was like, ‘There you are,'” Bunnie said on the podcast in 2023. “And he’s not my type I’m not his type Taylor Swift. That’s his type.”

Still, a romance didn’t happen right away. Bunnie was in an unhealthy relationship, she continued, and Jelly Roll was doing his own thing. But in October 2015 they reconnected. And as Bunnie put it, she was “just smitten.”

After her ex went to jail, she added, she told a friend to give Jelly Roll her phone number. Bunnie said the musician would call and text her for advice about her daughter Bailey from a previous relationship.

However, Bunnie noted that her bond with Jelly Roll turned from platonic to romantic in July 2016 when he returned to Vegas to film some videos and they slept together.

“We’re like full of faces,” she recalled. “I’m trying to get it up, get it in, get it on and get it out, and this guy said, ‘What’s your five-year plan?'”

So they discussed their goals and Bunnie remembered Jelly Roll saying: “OK, cool. Let’s do it.”