Jelly Roll Wants to Right His Past Wrongs

Published: October 22, 2024

Jelly Roll Wants to Right His Past Wrongs

By Movieguide® Contributor

Country music star Jelly Roll explained why he feels that it’s important that he makes amends with the victims of his actions from when he was young.

Jelly Roll was a troubled child who lived out a life of crime from a young age and spent many of his teenage years in a juvenile detention center. He was even in jail when his first daughter was born, which is what caused him to clean up his act. Now a man of faith decades later, Jelly Roll wants to right the wrongs he committed in his youth.

“I don’t know what I was even trying to be when I look back now,” Jelly Roll told Jay Shetty’s “On Purpose” podcast, per Fox News Digital. “This is how I know I was 15 because the more when I try to make logic of it, I can’t. There was no logic to what I did. It made absolutely no sense. And I learned so much from it and the way that I interact with people.”

The victims he has felt most convicted about reaching lately are the people that he robbed at age 15.

“I really want to have a conversation with them. I’ve thought about reaching out. This has been 24 years ago now. And I just don’t know how that would even start — you know, how I would go about it — because sometimes I wonder if they might have even seen me in passing or are aware of my success,” Jelly Roll said.

“I would just ask them to understand, I would ask them to just, one, forgive me, because there’s no excuse in that. The first accountability is, no matter how old I was, I had no business taking from anybody,” he continued. “Just the entitlement that I had, this, the world owed me enough that I could come take your stuff.”

Since coming to faith, the singer has worked hard to undo the evil he brought into the world when he was younger. At the beginning of the year, he testified before Congress about the fentanyl crisis, urging lawmakers to take action. Before coming to faith, Jelly Roll had sold the drug. Now he wants to be a part of the solution.

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