Jelly Roll may no longer be behind bars, but he’s still keeping in touch with his pals in jail
“I still got so many friends from my old neighborhood Antioch, Tennessee. I still accept collect calls from jail all the time,” Jelly Roll, 39, said on the Tuesday, June 25, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! “They got iPads in there now. God, they are spoiled.”
During his appearance on the late night show, the “Save Me” singer also opened up about his time in jail. He explained to Short, 74, that he made “horrible decisions” leading to his incarceration as a juvenile. Jelly Roll “just wept” when he learned of his first child’s birth when he was in prison. He welcomed his daughter, Bailee Ann, with ex-girlfriend Felicia in 2008 and is the father of son Noah Buddy, who he welcomed in August 2016 with ex Melisa. He’s now married to Bunnie XO.“It’s like the first time I cried,” he recalled of becoming a dad. “I can’t quit crying now. Now I cry if I see a squirrel in the street. I’m like, ‘The little squirrel!’ I spent 30 years not crying and now I can’t stop.
While in jail, Jelly Roll created music. “I had a lot of time to kill. So I was like, ‘Maybe I should invest this time into something positive.’ And I wrote a lot of songs,” he said.
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