Jelly roll he didn't have the easiest road to success, but he hopes to heal the hurt he may have caused along the way.
In a vulnerable, in-depth interview with Jay Shetty about the latter Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast, the “Need a Favor” singer talked about his desire to reach out to the people he robbed as a teenager. Jellie was then charged as an adult with robbery and faced a possible 20-year sentence, though he ultimately served more than a year on the charge, followed by more than seven years of probation.
“I really want to have a conversation with them. I thought I would reach out,” he told Shetty. “That was 24 years ago now. I just don't know how this would start, or, you know, how I would do it because sometimes I wonder if they might have even glimpsed me or if they're aware of my success. I wonder if they are even related. I mean, obviously I've changed dramatically. I was 15, man, you know what I mean? I couldn't get facial hair at all. I almost didn't hit puberty. I still had my voice when I did that robbery. So I've given it a lot of thought and it's definitely on my list.”
He added that he will apologize, take responsibility and ask for forgiveness. “I had no business to take from anybody,” explained Jelly. “Just the right I had, that the world owed me enough to come get your stuff. It's just what a horrible, horrible way to look at life and people. What a horrible way to interact with the Earth.”
The Grammy-nominated star continued: “I hope they see that I've made it my life's mission to change and change people because that's what I represent the most in what I do. I think people cheer for me because they see a little bit of me in them, or they see their cousin — I'm part of the family, they're related, and I'm talking about an unknown group of people, and I hope they know that. […] I try diligently to prove to myself that I not only changed, but that I took the platform seriously and that it makes me change more and more every day. I hope they forgive me.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Jelly talked about how he doesn't relate at all to the person he once was. “I look back on those years and I'm embarrassed to talk about them,” he revealed. “I was still a bad person in my early thirties, but I mean, I was a really horrible kid until my twenties. People are always like, you're the nicest dude I've ever met. I'm so glad you didn't meet anyone who knew me 20 years ago.”
He added, “I took zero responsibility for anything in my life. I was the kid that if you asked what happened, I immediately started with everything but me. And it took years to crack it, like years of work, solid work to crack it. It also took years of work to forgive this child.”
See the entire Jelly Roll Purpose with Jay Shetty interview below.
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