Bunnie Xo Sets The Record Straight After Fake Post Goes Viral Claiming Jelly Roll Refused To Participate In Pride Month

I don’t know how many times we have to say it, but: Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.

It should be common sense by now, but unfortunately it seems like every day there’s a new rumor or post going viral that’s completely untrue. Unless it’s from a credible source, you shouldn’t assume it’s true.

Unfortunately that’s not the case though, and oftentimes these rumors get shared and spread around before the truth ever has time to come out by people who are either want to believe that the fake post is true or want to be mad about it. Everybody’s looking for a reason to either be outraged or make their point, and they’re quick to share anything that helps them out, whether it’s true or not.

Case in point: This post claiming that Jelly Roll refused to perform at a pride festival.

Back on June 13, a page with 1 million followers posted on Facebook claiming that the country superstar had released a statement claiming that “woke doesn’t deserve to be celebrated” and refused to participate in pride month. (I’m not going to embed the post here, because honestly, why share it any further?)

The original post has been shared over 3,000 times and racked up over 88,000 reactions, as well as nearly 27k comments. I’ve also seen videos on other platforms of people who were either upset by Jelly Roll’s supposed stance, or praising him for it.

The problem? The whole story is complete bulls–t.

Jelly’s wife, Bunnie Xo, took to her own social media to call out the post:

“This is an absolute lie! Stop posting stuff for views and engagement that’s completely wrong. We have always supported the gays & theys baby”

And she went even harder on her TikTok story:

“This is appalling and disgusting that someone can just post anything they want & tear down an entire community w/defamatory FALSE statements that they could never back up.

My husband would NEVER say this, we have always loved [our] gays & theys. We LOVE love.

Please stop believing things without factual proof or hearing it from the source.”

I mean, if you think critically about the post’s claims for more than a second or two, does it REALLY sound like something Jelly Roll would say? Have you ever heard him say anything negative about anybody, or stand for anything but acceptance for everybody? It’s laughably fake on its face, but still, people see something like that and run with it for their own agenda.

Of course there were plenty of people who saw the fake post and took it as confirmation that Jelly is a Trump support, despite the fact that he’s never been political (at least not publicly), and even clarified who he voted for during the last 2024 presidential election: Nobody.

In fact, the country music superstar COULDN’T vote for either candidate. Jelly Roll (whose real name is Jason DeFord) was convicted of felony robbery way back in 2003, and as a felon in Tennessee he lost his right to vote. So he couldn’t vote anyway.

As Jelly responded in a (now-deleted) comment to a TikTok accusing him and his wife Bunnie Xo of being Trump voters:

“I can’t vote sir – at all. lol. Nor have I ever. Nor will I ever be allowed to vote. It’s alright, you don’t know me, but please don’t lie about me.”

Of course Jelly has said in the past that because he lost his right to vote he has never considered himself a Democrat or a Republican. While testifying in front of Congress on the fentanyl epidemic, he spoke on his political stance:

“I am a musician. I have no political alliance. I am neither Democrat nor Republican. In fact because of my past, my right to vote has been restricted, thus for I have never paid attention to a political race in my life.”

Like I said, don’t believe everything you read online. But hey, whatever helps you get clicks I guess.The post Bunnie Xo Sets The Record Straight After Fake Post Goes Viral Claiming Jelly Roll Refused To Participate In Pride Month first appeared on Whiskey Riff.