Jelly Roll plans to seek forgiveness from victims of armed robbery: 'No logic to what I did'

Even arsenic his prima continues to rise, Jelly Roll knows there’s inactive enactment to bash connected himself mentally, physically and spiritually.

On Jay Shetty’s "On Purpose" podcast, the Grammy-nominated vocalist looked backmost connected his arrests, including 1 for equipped robbery astatine property 15, hoping his victims volition forgive him.

"I truly privation to person a speech with them. I've thought astir reaching out. This has been 24 years agone now. And I conscionable don't cognize however that would adjacent commencement — you know, however I would spell astir it — due to the fact that sometimes I wonderment if they mightiness person adjacent seen maine successful passing oregon are alert of my success," Jelly Roll said, adding they’re connected his "amends list."

"I would conscionable inquire them to understand, I would inquire them to just, one, forgive me, due to the fact that there's nary excuse successful that. The archetypal accountability is, nary substance however aged I was, I had nary concern taking from anybody. Just the entitlement that I had, this, the satellite owed maine capable that I could travel instrumentality your stuff.

Jelly Roll said helium hopes the victims of his equipped robbery forgive him. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

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"I don't cognize what I was adjacent trying to beryllium erstwhile I look backmost now," the 39-year-old said. "This is however I cognize I was 15 due to the fact that the much erstwhile I effort to marque logic of it, I can't. There was nary logic to what I did. It made perfectly nary sense. And I learned truthful overmuch from it and the mode that I interact with people."

Jelly Roll besides said helium hoped the victims would spot however overmuch he’s changed and that "money doesn't make character, it reveals it."

The "Save Me" vocalist archetypal went to juvenile detention astatine property 13 and was successful and retired of prisons for years.

Reflecting connected his experiences arsenic a teen down bars, helium said, "I missed precocious school. I missed immoderate benignant of mean socializing, immoderate benignant of what would beryllium increasing up, what would beryllium processing successful those areas. And I was processing successful a room. And I did a transgression that deserved this, by the way, but I was processing successful a country with chromatic achromatic walls, a alloy commode and a alloy bunk and a six-by-eight cell, six-foot wide, eight-foot long. By the clip I was an adult, I had to slumber with my legs curled. Couldn't agelong each the mode out, you know. I'll ne'er hide being 17, realizing I grew capable that I couldn't acceptable successful the bunk nary much lengthwise."

Jelly Roll recalled being incarcerated arsenic a teen, saying helium missed precocious schoolhouse and "any benignant of mean socializing." (WWE/Getty Images)

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Jelly Roll, calved Jason DeFord, credits those experiences with making him the idiosyncratic helium is now.

"I wouldn't beryllium the antheral I americium contiguous if it wasn't for what I went through. I deliberation it empowered me. I deliberation it gave maine my voice," helium told Fox News Digital at the 2023 CMAs. "It taught maine a batch astir overcoming. It taught maine a batch astir changing and the quality to change.

"When I effort to marque logic of it, I can't. There was nary logic to what I did. It made perfectly nary sense."

"I was a horrible quality for decades, and to conscionable beryllium capable to crook that astir and springiness a connection successful the euphony and assistance radical … and conscionable effort to springiness backmost arsenic overmuch arsenic I tin successful each mode I tin is precise indicative of wherever I came from and however important it is to maine to ever scope back."

During his clip successful jail, helium earned his GED and enrolled successful Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. He besides recovered a Christian programme called Jericho that connected him much profoundly with his faith.

Despite saying helium was a "horrible quality for decades," Jelly Roll turned his beingness astir successful situation done antithetic programs, including a Christian programme that helped him link with his faith. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Global Citizen)

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In an interrogation with Fox News Digital up of the 2024 CMT Music Awards, Jelly Roll explained his religion successful God has been his "driving force."

"Faith was a batch of maine believing it was going to enactment retired for me," helium said. "Could you ideate being a 37-year-old, unsuccessful instrumentalist erstwhile you told radical that was your job?" 

The Tennessee autochthonal roseate to prominence successful 2021 with his album, "Ballad of the Broken," but had been moving for years to interruption done successful the euphony world, archetypal successful hep hop, past country.

"It wasn't similar thing I did connected the side. Like, it was my job. And I conscionable ever had religion that God had a bigger intent for what I was trying to do," Jelly Roll said.

Jelly Roll told Fox News Digital, "I conscionable ever had religion that God had a bigger intent for what I was trying to do." (Cindy Ord)

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In his acceptance code astatine the 2024 iHeartRadio Awards, helium spoke astir however religion guided his journey. 

"What does it mean erstwhile a feline similar maine gets the accidental to beryllium the caller popular creator of the twelvemonth astatine [the] iHeartRadio Awards? It means that God volition ever usage the slightest apt messenger with the biggest connection each azygous time," helium said.

Jelly Roll has been utilizing his presumption arsenic a nationalist fig to talk retired connected the issues that person impacted his life.

In January, helium testified earlier Congress astir the fentanyl crisis, highlighting his past arsenic a cause dealer.

"I was portion of the problem. I americium present present lasting arsenic a antheral that wants to beryllium portion of the solution," helium testified.

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He explained it is not "a victimless crime" and that the parent of his 16-year-old daughter is simply a cause addict.

"Every time I get to look successful the eyes of a unfortunate successful my household of the effects of drugs. Every azygous day. And each azygous day, I person to wonder, maine and my wife, if contiguous volition beryllium the time that I person to archer my girl that her parent became a portion of the nationalist statistic."

"I conscionable ever had religion that God had a bigger intent for what I was trying to do."

He called connected Congress to beryllium "proactive and not reactive" and walk the FEND Off Fentanyl Act, authorities that targets Chinese chemic suppliers and Mexican cause cartels who are trafficking fentanyl with sanctions. 

Jelly Roll has besides opened the Youth Campus for Empowerment astatine the Davidson County Juvenile Justice Center successful Nashville, wherever helium was erstwhile incarcerated. He told local Fox affiliate WZTV during the groundbreaking that helium hoped to amended the conditions to assistance different struggling teens.

Jelly Roll helped unfastened a caller halfway to assistance troubled teens astatine the Davidson County Juvenile Justice Center successful Nashville, wherever helium was erstwhile incarcerated. (Getty Images)

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"Get escaped of worldly that makes you consciousness similar a caged animal," helium told the outlet, according to People. "Make these kids consciousness loved and springiness them a accidental successful life. A batch of these kids are victims of their circumstances. This is simply a truly large accidental to alteration things."

He besides donated a signaling workplace to the halfway successful May. 

During his interrogation connected "On Purpose," Jelly Roll said helium had a "victim mentality" earlier turning his beingness around.

"I was hopeless and delusional. I was a hopeless delusional dreamer, and the hopeless portion got maine successful a batch of trouble," helium said. "I promote delusional dreamers. Be a delusional dreamer. Just don't beryllium a hopeless delusional dreamer, you know. But I decidedly was consciously making truly horrible decisions. I conscionable had specified an anger. I was conscionable truthful huffy astatine life. Everything that wasn't close was everybody's responsibility but mine. I had specified a unfortunate mentality.

Jelly Roll said he's forgiven himself by taking accountability for his past actions. (Ayisha Collins/FilmMagic/Getty Images)

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"I took zero accountability for thing successful my life. I was the kid that if you asked what happened, I instantly started with everything but me. … And it took years for maine to interruption that, similar years of work, coagulated work, to conscionable similar interruption that. It besides has taken years of enactment for maine to adjacent forgive that kid."