A Williamson County, Tennessee, courthouse now holds a document that reads less like a divorce settlement and more like a warning label.
Newly filed paperwork from Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO’s divorce shows the former couple were told in writing that their plan to have a child together after the split could carry legal consequences. They signed it anyway.
According to the marital dissolution agreement filed Friday and obtained by Page Six, both parties confirmed their attorneys had separately advised them about their ongoing desire to become parents together.
The language is unusually direct for a document that normally deals in houses and cars. Jelly Roll, 41, and Bunnie, 46, acknowledged being told that “there may be consequences pertaining to this Agreement with respect to their genetic materials, due to evolving technology and case law; as well as the ‘interim category’ of interest afforded to said genetic materials.“
Translated out of legalese, the law governing frozen embryos is still being written, and nobody can promise where it lands.
The filing goes further. Both acknowledged that their divorce lawyers were not “experts with regard to genetic and reproductive rights,” and both were “directed and advised to obtain independent advice from qualified expert counsel in genetics and reproductive law prior to signing this Agreement.“
They specifically declined to do so.
That refusal is the most striking detail in the entire settlement. Two people who have spoken openly about how brutal their IVF journey was, physically and emotionally, were handed a formal recommendation to bring in specialists before locking in an agreement that touches their embryos, and chose to proceed without one.
Their Baby Plans Have Not Changed
Neither has backed away from the plan. In a since-deleted episode of her Dumb Blonde podcast recorded a month after the filing, Bunnie said the divorce would not deter her from becoming a mother, and that she and her ex-husband were on the same page about having a child and raising it together.
The rest of the settlement was handled quietly. The pair divided homes, vehicles, an aircraft, and their intellectual properties through a separate confidential property agreement, with Jelly Roll paying a one-time lump sum of an undisclosed amount that closes off any spousal support claims. It also carried confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions barring either from publicly criticizing the other.
They were declared divorced the same day the paperwork was finalized, roughly two months after the singer filed on May 19 citing irreconcilable differences, ending a marriage of nearly a decade.
Neither Jelly Roll nor Bunnie has commented publicly on the reproductive clause, and neither has said whether the plan has a timeline.
Their lawyers wrote down the risk, put it in front of them, and told them to go find an expert. They signed the page and kept the plan.
