Jelly Roll Sits On Jimmy Fallon’s Couch
Jelly Roll sat on The Tonight Show’s couch for the first time this week. He told Jimmy Fallon after sitting down, “I was so nervous back there. I thought I tinkled myself a little bit. I still think I did. I won’t know until I do a full assessment.”
Fallon asked Jelly about his youth and the 40 times he’s been in prison. He wanted to know how he endured and became who he is today. Jelly said, “Man, as cliché as it may sound: faith, and finding love, it softened my heart. I fell in love with a woman and got married. I had a daughter. It changed my whole life. She’s 16 now, so that’s getting interesting.”
He continued, “But it’s still really good, and it just made me wanna be a good father and a better human, And I knew I was just a crappy person for so long, man. I destroyed. I was just a bad human and now I’m trying to turn that around. I’m a totally different guy man. It’s awesome.”
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Fallon also asked about his CMA award in 2023 and the fact that right after he won the award for Best New Artist, he dropped it and shattered it on the ground backstage. Jelly recalled, “I was just so excited and so nervous that I had the sweatiest shakiest palms and that thing is… I’m already not a physically fit guy and that thing’s heavy. That thing was really heavy and I was so excited and I was going to change it from one hand to another to shake somebody’s hand and it just boomed.”
Jelly added, “I was like this is the story of my life though Jimmy. I finally get my life together. I win the biggest award the Best New Artist I was one of the oldest people to ever win it. I was 39 years old and I gave a passionate speech and then I came backstage and fumbled the ball, just dropped it right there. When it first broke, you could’ve heard a mouse peeing on cotton it was so quiet backstage.”
Jelly also talked about his busy weekend, during which he sold out Madison Square Garden, played at the Global Citizens Festival in Central Park, and performed at the premiere of Saturday Night Live.
Jelly Roll posted some clips from the Fallon appearance on his Instagram. He wrote, “I went on Fallon yesterday and I might have tinkled a little bit.”
See that post here.
