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com Published: 18:54 EDT, 20 August 2024 | Updated: 19:09 EDT, 20 August 2024 e-mail 22 shares View comments Jelly Roll opened up about how he changed his life and quit using drugs while he was in prison when his daughter Bailee Ann was born in May of 2008. The two-time Grammy nominee, 39, speaking with The New York Times Sunday, was asked about his previous statement that he vowed to change his life after becoming a parent in prison; and if anything could have happened to persuade him to cease using drugs prior to that point. 'I’m not sure,' said the Antioch, Tennessee native, whose full name is Jason Bradley DeFord.
'I’m learning to forgive myself for the decisions I made when I was that young. They were wrong and I knew they were wrong, and I was doing them with a sense of pride and excitement. Jelly Roll, who is father to Bailee Ann, 16, and Noah, seven, from a prior relationship, said he's 'learning to give myself the grace to look back and go: "I was 15.
I was so young,"' adding, 'I don’t know what could have helped me, to be honest.' The Save Me vocalist was asked in further depth about how the news of his fatherhood influenced his decision to cease using drugs , as the newspaper's David Marchese said the statement 'sounds almost like something from a movie,' adding that 'change is never quite so easy.' Jelly Roll, 39, says he changed his life and quit using drugs while he was in prison when his daughter Bailee Ann was born in May of 2008.
Pictured in Cleveland earlier this month The two-time Grammy nominee was pictured performing in New York on Saturday Jelly Roll, who is married to Bunnie XO, 44, said that he believes 'that dramatic change happens' and that the idea that it's not easy or possible 'is the opposite of what happens in Alcoholics Anonymous every single day.' He added: 'I think that you saying that shows me that you’ve never been a part of that culture and never seen people have those rock-bottom experiences where they woke up and said, "Today is the day I quit shooting heroin." Read More Jelly Roll claims marijuana has kept him from 'snorting cocaine again'.
'There is a lot of steps after that. They have to go to rehab. They have to detox.
There was a lot of steps I had to change. So yeah, maybe the change wasn’t dramatic but the decision was dramatic.' Jelly Roll in the discussion was asked if new material based on addiction and adversity was more difficult to write amid his recent years of success.
'First of all, I hear these stories every night,' he said. 'I hear what the songs are doing for people. All of a sudden, what I thought was just my story becomes the story of tens of millions.
It’s deeper than my story.' The singer added that people close to him, including relatives, 'just got out of rehab,' and that after two decades of turbulent living, he's 'still catching up' amid 'a pretty unbelievable, amazing life for 24 months.' Asked if he speaks with children about his past incarceration, Jelly Roll said he's 'always been honest' with them.
'I was trying to describe what addiction was to an eight-year-old without using words like "addiction" or "drugs,"' the musical artist said, adding that he believes that addiction is 'a disease.' Jelly Roll was pictured at WWE's Summerslam earlier this month alongside Machine Gun Kelly, who also recently opened up about how parenthood influenced his decision to clean up The singer added that people close to him, including relatives, 'just got out of rehab,' and that after two decades of turbulent living, he's 'still catching up' amid 'a pretty unbelievable, amazing life for 24 months.' Pictured in Cleveland earlier this month He said the 'strangest thing happens' to people who are in the active throes of substance abuse.
'Somebody you’ve known your entire life turns into a different person,' he said. 'I’ve had it happen to baby-mothers, cousins, biological brothers. It is unbelievable what it does .
.. it’s a medical thing.
' In the interview, Jelly Roll confirmed that his first experience with incarceration took place in his early teens. 'I got caught with a cannabis charge in Antioch and a pack of cigarettes as a juvenile,' he said. 'They cited me, and the cop trusted me to take the citation to my family and go to court.
Which, of course, I didn’t. 'So the police had to show up and haul me to jail. That was at 13.
At 14 I think it was a schoolyard fight.' Asked if he felt rehabilitated amid his time in custody, Jelly Roll noted that he got his G.E.
D. 'because as soon as they said I was having a kid, I was like: "I need to figure this out. I don’t even have a G.
E.D." I went to that unit and got my G.
E.D., which I’m super proud of.
' He said he also got involved with a nonprofit, Christian-based program 'called Jericho for a company called the Men of Valor that helps rehabilitate men.' Jelly Roll added, 'That was the first time I experienced something that was really cool. But it wasn’t a state-funded program.
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