Jelly Roll is saying goodbye to emphasize.
The nation star made the choice to take a expertise break, sealing the deal by throwing his cellphone into the river.
“This is not possibly not the wholesome method to do it, however I can confidently inform individuals I am not going to have a cellphone all of [2025],” Jelly Roll mentioned on his spouse Bunnie Xo’s podcast “Dumb Blonde.”
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Nation music star Jelly Roll admitted he felt “overwhelmed” and burdened as he tossed his cellphone into the river. (Bunnie XO/TikTok)
Jelly Roll made these feedback after he requested his driver to take him to the Cumberland River.
“I used to be getting to some extent that I used to be getting a whole bunch and a whole bunch of textual content messages a day. And I simply was overwhelmed,” he defined. “After which after I would lastly sit down to return by way of them, I’d simply really feel like such a nasty human for lacking them… I used to be carrying loads of guilt. This cellphone was inflicting me loads of guilt.”
“This is not possibly not the wholesome method to do it, however I can confidently inform individuals I am not going to have a cellphone all of [2025].”
The “Son of a Sinner” singer beforehand talked about throughout interviews that if his “Fantastically Damaged Tour” goes nicely, he vowed to toss his cell gadget off the Shelby Road Bridge.
Jelly Roll defined that his cellphone triggered him “loads of guilt.” (Mat Hayward/Getty Photos for Jelly Roll)
Through the podcast, Jelly Roll’s spouse mentioned this was not the primary time the musician removed his cellphone. She added that individuals would attain out to her to attempt to get in touch with Jelly Roll.
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“I’ve had the identical quantity for nearly a decade. My husband has had about 17,” she mentioned.
Jelly Roll defined, “I’d be lacking textual content messages and know there have been so many over there that it was too irritating to go verify. So, I’d keep away from that by senseless scrolling or… I had these information alerts on my cellphone, after which we change into huge information tales on a regular basis,” he added. “I began getting caught up in that.”
Through the podcast, Jelly Roll’s spouse Bunnie Xo mentioned this isn’t the primary time the musician removed his cellphone. (Getty Photos)
Jelly Roll’s plan was to make use of a flip cellphone in 2025, as he believed, “It is wholesome for me. I’d use my cellphone as a method to [dissociate] as nicely.”
The Nashville, Tennessee, native shared that the cellphone doesn’t assist him change into the individual he desires to be.
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“I wanna be a greater husband. I wanna be a greater father. I wanna be a greater human. I wanna be a greater artist.”
On Nov. 27, Bunnie shared a video as he FaceTimed her earlier than chucking his cellphone over the bridge.
“You know the way I throw my cellphone out on a regular basis… mama, I really like you, child, I really like you,” he mentioned on the cellphone.
“I am a bit of tipsy. I sit up for spending my subsequent couple months with simply y’all, with no outdoors interference… freedom child.”
Through the podcast, Jelly Roll, who was born Jason Bradley DeFord, moreover mentioned he wouldn’t enable his weight to dictate the quantity of success he has sooner or later.
“I did this publicly for a motive,” he informed his spouse. “I wish to be trustworthy about my struggles with it with individuals. I wore it for therefore lengthy.”
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On his horizon, Jelly Roll had set a brand new aim for himself: being a canopy mannequin. (Getty Photos)
“I feel that individuals that change into as huge as I grew to become, once they lose the load, they’re sort of ashamed,” defined the “Save Me” singer, who has misplaced 100 kilos.
“They’re so ashamed that they go and conceal and lose the load, after which they arrive again out… they do not actually know work together with the world, wanting totally different or feeling totally different, ? And so they sort of bought to search out their entire new approach.”
On his horizon, Jelly Roll had set a brand new aim for himself: being a canopy mannequin. “I wanna be on the duvet of ‘Males’s Well being’ by March of 2026,” he informed his spouse, who shared in his pleasure. “That is my new aim. So I wanna have one of many greatest transformations.”
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Fox Information Digital’s Caroline Thayer contributed to this report.
