Jelly Roll found out that he was going to become a dad while incarcerated.
“A guard knocks on my cell door mid-afternoon during lockdown. He goes, ‘You had a kid today,’” the country singer told Billboard in June 2023, referring to his 2008 prison sentence for a drug conviction. “I’ve never had nothing in life that urged me in the moment to know that I had to do something different. I have to figure this out right now.”
Jelly Roll was released from jail nearly two years later, eventually being granted primary custody of Bailee. Jelly Roll, who also shares son Noah Buddy wit...
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