Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia seemingly isn’t a fan of Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo’s friendly dynamic amid their ongoing divorce.
“She’s still under the mind control of him,” LaPaglia, 27, alleged during the Sunday, July 12, episode of her “Plan Bri Uncut” podcast. “This is why I know she doesn’t mean that because all of her closest friends are reposting … the most asinine videos about Jelly Roll and how he’s the worst person and how people only like him because of Bunnie.”
She claimed, “Bunnie is just doing the thing where she’s still protecting him, which I went through that at a point too, where you’re not fully stepped out of the situation yet [and] can’t even understand what’s happening to you and she just still wants to protect him and she still wants to encourage [him].”
LaPaglia was seemingly referring to her past relationship with singer Zach Bryan, which ended in October 2024 after more than one year together. At the time, the Barstool Sports personality claimed she was blindsided by Bryan, 30, when he announced their split via social media. She later insinuated that the “Something in the Orange” singer was allegedly controlling and tried to get her to sign a non-disclosure agreement. (Bryan, who never publicly addressed LaPaglia’s claims, is now married to Samantha Leonard.)
Nearly two years later, Jelly Roll, 41, quietly filed for divorce from Bunnie, 46, in May after a decade of marriage. Despite their separation, Jelly Roll and Bunnie have each asserted that they remain best friends.
“She’s going to step out of this a year from now and be like, ‘Holy f***ing s***, Jelly Belly f***ing lost weight,’ and the second he drops weight, take it for what it actually is,” LaPaglia speculated of Bunnie, referring to Jelly Roll’s 200-pound weight loss. “Of course, there’s probably other proponents that go into it, but his ego and how he is as a person clearly changed when he lost the weight and he thought that he can do better.”
According to LaPaglia, Bunnie appeared to be “the only redeeming and beautiful quality” of Jelly Roll himself.
“Of course, maybe some people like his music, I don’t know who those are, but the only redeeming thing about him was how much he loved his wife,” the Special Forces alum theorized. “[They were] in union they were and how they made it out together and they built this incredible life from the dark past that they had together. It’s, like, to finally amount to this point of your life where you’ve made it and then you lose all this weight and you start talking different, you start acting different and then you drop the woman that saved you and, kind of, made you. I don’t think there would be Jelly Roll at this level if it wasn’t for Bunnie.”
Neither Jelly Roll nor Bunnie has publicly addressed LaPaglia’s perception of their post-breakup dynamic.
