Jelly Roll Was Accused of Satanism and He Regrets How He Responded

Jelly Roll admits he broke the primary rule of web fame — to by no means let the trolls get you down — after rumors began flying on social media accusing him of Satanism.

Final month, Jelly unloaded his frustrations with X, the platform previously generally known as Twitter, in a tweet that referred to as it “probably the most poisonous adverse app to exist ever — PERIOD.”

He additionally said that he was “out,” suggesting that he deliberate to get off social media fully.

He didn’t specify precisely what was irritating him at that time, however on a current look on the Pat McAfee Present podcast, the singer shed a bit of extra mild on why he was so upset, and why he doesn’t truly plan to delete his social media presence altogether.

The “I Am Not Okay” star says that when he began seeing tweets swirling accusing him of satan worship, it caught him off guard — particularly as a result of he’s at all times been fairly vocal about his Christian religion.

“I began getting drawn into bizarre stuff that made me really feel bizarre, as a result of I’m a person of religion,” he says on the podcast episode. “I’m like, ‘Man, y’all actually don’t know me for those who suppose I might even … Devil runs from the identify I say. You recognize what I imply? That’s all I’m gonna say.”

“I say one identify and Devil scatters,” he continues. “I don’t fear about no person touching my butt or no Illuminati.”

And Jelly stands by his staunch Christian religion, however the a part of his response he’s acquired some regrets over is how a lot he let the accusations get to him.

“I doubled down like an actual f–king dumba–,” Jelly admits.

“I’m going, ‘You recognize what, I’m getting off X, y’all are imply to me,” he recounts. “That was so not the method. I’m again on socials. Effectively, I’m getting again.”

However Jelly additionally factors out that taking a break from social media is one thing that he does recurrently, and his choice to sign off was about greater than negativity on the app. In reality, manner again originally of October, he joked on X that he was going to “throw my telephone within the Cumberland River” after he accomplished his Beautifully Broken Tour.

“I’m going six months with out telephones in any case. I’m solely on a telephone throughout tour cycles,” he provides on the podcast.

Although Jelly will cop to the truth that his response to the Satanism rumors may need been a tad overdramatic, he additionally needs to remind followers that these sorts of rumors are new, unusual territory for him.

“I’ve been spending most of my life the place for those who spit within the sink you’ll get stabbed,” says the singer, who spent a lot of his teenagers and early 2020s out and in of jail amenities. “So that you go from that to being in a world the place individuals on Twitter accuse you of being a Devil worshiper for no purpose?”

“It’s like, ‘Yo, I’m from an entire totally different area,’” he notes. “If this occurred at a gasoline station, you’d sue me. It will finish in a lawsuit.”

Evidently Jelly is maintaining his telephone for 2025, and this time round, he’ll have to buy a global plan. He simply introduced new Canadian dates for his Superbly Damaged Tour, which kick off subsequent March.