Jelly Roll's daughter denies cheating claims after singer's divorce finalized

The divorce papers were signed and filed away in a Tennessee courthouse on Friday, but the real conversation was happening on TikTok. Bailee Ann, eighteen years old and Jelly Roll's daughter, sat in front of her phone camera on Sunday and did what her family had been doing since the split became public: she pushed back hard against the noise.

The country singer—born Jason DeFord, known for "Son of a Sinner"—had petitioned for divorce on May 18, listing May 9 as the date of separation and citing irreconcilable differences. By Friday, a judge had made it official. His marriage to Bunnie Xo, which had lasted a decade since a Las Vegas ceremony in August 2016, was over. But in the days that followed, the internet had filled with speculation, rumor, and one persistent accusation: that someone had cheated.

Bailee Ann was done with it. On the livestream, she was blunt and profane and unapologetic. "Nobody cheated," she said. "Period." She told people to stop flooding her comments, her direct messages, her live stream with theories and gossip. She said they had no idea what actually happened, and that when she finally did speak, "the internet in totality is about to fucking crumble." She was angry at the presumption that anyone outside the family could understand what had broken apart. "Nobody else lived in it," she said. "So don't fucking even."

The settlement itself remained confidential, though the outlines were clear enough: assets would be divided—homes, cars, an aircraft, intellectual properties. Jelly Roll would make a one-time lump sum payment to Bunnie, enough that she would have no claim to alimony. Both Bunnie and Jelly Roll had defended their relationship fiercely since the split went public, each pushing back against the cheating narrative in their own way.

Bunnie, whose full name is Alisa DeFord, had been giving her followers a tour of her new Nashville-area home—hidden staircases, sprawling closets, an infinity pool. She had also been talking, in a podcast episode that was later removed, about the early days of their relationship. She described a time when they were broke, when she was working as a high-end escort and using that money to pay their bills, to hire lawyers, to fund tours and travel. "We were still in the streets," she said. "We were making money as it came." She pushed back against the idea that she had simply bankrolled him from the start. They had built something together, she was saying, from nothing.

The marriage had produced a blended family. Bailee Ann and her brother Noah had gained a stepmother when Bunnie and Jelly Roll married. Now that was undone. The legal machinery had finished its work. What remained was the public conversation—the speculation, the theories, the hunger for explanation. And Bailee Ann, eighteen and protective of her family's privacy, was telling everyone to stop guessing and wait. There was more to the story, she was saying. But it wasn't theirs to tell.