Jelly Roll Admits Using Marijuana To Keep Him Off Hard Drugs Like Cocaine
Jelly Roll got candid about the topic of drug use in a new interview.
Last weekend, the "Halfway To Hell" artist, 39, was interviewed by Evan Paul on the "Taste of Country Nights" evening show, where he talked about "how marijuana saved his life" and his stance on using the substance.
"I believe marijuana has helped me in so many regarding my anxiety... I believe this is a hot-button topic, but, truly, marijuana has kept me sober," he said.
He also told Paul that his stance on marijuana use "will always be the same" even if he "get[s] in trouble for [it] all the time."
"I think a world without weed, Jelly Roll's drinking codeine and popping Xanax and snorting cocaine again, but a world with weed, I'll be alright," he admitted.
However, the "Save Me" singer clarified that he respects his friends who do other things in their sobriety journey.
"I know that I have friends that don't do that. I have friends [who] are in the program that are totally against any kind of mind-altering anything. I respect that. I have so much respect for those people. That's just not how my sobriety worked out," he said.
In January last year, Jelly Roll talked to Billboard about a turning point that led him to change his ways and "do something different."
He recalled the time when he was incarcerated for drug dealing at 23 years old and when he learned about the birth of his daughter Bailee with his wife Bunnie in May 2008, when he was 24.
"I've never had nothing in life that urged me in the moment to know that I had to do something different. I have to figure this out right now," he said at the time.
To start the change in his life, he began studying for his GED when he got transferred from the violent offenders' unit to the education unit. He passed the exam on his first attempt.
He was released from prison when his daughter was 2. That was their first meeting.
