Jelly Roll recently got candid about his personal struggle and talked about carrying a lot of “guilt” because of his cellphone.
Speaking to his wife Bunnie XO’s Dumb Blonde podcast, the country singer recalled discarding his cellphone once in the most unexpected place because he felt “overwhelmed”.
Roll, whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord, said, “And I just was overwhelmed.”
“I was carrying a lot of guilt. This phone was causing me a lot of guilt.”
The Son of a Sinner hitmaker recalled that he got his driver to take him to the body of water, and he threw his handset over.
“I was getting to a point that I was getting hundreds and hundreds of text messages a day.”
The 40-year-old singer continued, “I would be missing text messages and know there were so many over there that it was too stressful to go check.”
“So I would avoid that by mindless scrolling or, you know, I had these news alerts on my phone, and then we become big news stories all the time.
“It’s like, I started getting caught up in that.”
Jelly insisted having a smartphone wasn’t making him “a better person”.
According to him, he wants to be a better husband, father, human and a better artist.
Before concluding, Jelly Roll shared that he will be using a “flip phone next year”.
“It’s healthy for me,” he said, adding, “I would use my phone as a way to [dissociate] as well.”
