Jelly Roll Claims He 'Loves It' When Haters Call Wife Bunnie Xo a 'Gold Digger'

Jelly Roll thinks it's funny that internet trolls claim his wife, Bunnie Xo, married him for money.

"I love it when they call her a gold digger," the Grammy winner, 41, said recently, per an article published by Taste of Country Nights on Thursday, March 19. "She hates it. It just flames her up."

"But it just tickles me absolutely pink because when I met her," he added, "I was homeless living out of a 1996 conversion van, so if anyone was digging for gold it was I, Popeye. I was couch-surfing and made it to the bedroom."

The couple married a decade ago after first meeting in 2015 at one of Jelly Roll’s shows at a Las Vegas country bar.

Bunnie Xo (real name: Alisa DeFord) recently opened about the couple's early days together in her book, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, which came out last last month.

"J wasn't the man he is today back in 2015. When we met, and a year later, he was still bouncing couch to couch and living in his brown van, Bertha," she wrote, adding it was "the dirtiest vehicle" she had ever seen.

Bunnie Xo, 46, shared that the country singer wasn't her "type," but she was inexplicably drawn to him.

"I love tough guys, or goth, emo boys in eyeliner," she said. "I wasn't his type either. So why the h--- was my soul telling me there he is the minute we met? I couldn't explain it. And I didn't know how he thought about me at all. I had a hunch, but I wasn't sure."

She felt their connection was "spiritual."

The "Dumb Blonde" podcast host also candidly wrote about considering suicide after discovering Jelly Roll's affair in 2018.

Bunnie Xo told Us Weekly of the admission, "I tried to be real as possible with the situation," explaining, "My husband is my best friend. I f------ love that man — and we have been through h---.”

The content creator added, "I’m so happy for people who have never had to go through anything traumatic in their relationships. But I just feel like my husband and I had to go through that because it’s part of our testimony. It’s a part of what we’ve survived — we choose to be together every day."

Meanwhile, Jelly Roll told People last month of the book, "It was rough at times just for me to read it."

"We went through a lot of pain and having to go through it together, but reading the whole book and seeing where it ended at is really touching," he said.