This singer’s haters might be “Halfway to Hell” after their online behavior.
Less than two weeks after announcing his desire to lose at least 100 pounds, Jelly Roll has left social media due to trolls.
His wife, Bunnie Xo, teased a clip from her “Dumb Blonde” podcast to be released Wednesday: “My husband got off the internet because he is so tired of being bullied about his f–king weight.”
She added: “That makes me want to cry because he is the sweetest angel baby.”
Talking directly to her listeners, she continued, “My husband doesn’t show it to you guys, but I’m going to have a very vulnerable moment here. It hurts him.”
At the beginning of April, Jelly Roll, 39, told People that he had already lost 70 pounds ahead of a 5K he plans on running next month.
“I’ve really been kicking ass, man. I’m doing two to three miles a day, four to six days a week,” he said. “I’m doing 20 to 30 minutes in the sauna, six minutes in a cold plunge every day. I’m eating healthy right now.”
He continued: “I was thinking, I plan on losing another 100, 100-and-something [pounds]. If I feel this good down weight, man, I can only imagine what I’m going to feel like by the time I go on tour.” (His Beautifully Broken tour starts in August in Salt Lake City, Utah, and continues through October.)
The interview comes six years after he admitted in an Instagram post to once weighing more than 500 pounds.
In the sneak peek, Bunnie Xo continued: “The internet can say whatever the f – – k they want about you. And they say, ‘Well you’re a celebrity, you’re supposed to be able to handle it.’ No the f – – k we’re not.
“I’m sorry, I’m gonna stand up for all the f – – king underdogs … You’re never going to bully me, you’re never going to lie about me or my family, and I will fight to the end.”
Jelly Roll posted a TikTok with Troy Aikman last week, but his last Instagram post was on April 9 following an appearance on “American Idol” and the latest activity on his X (formerly Twitter) account was a repost from April 10.