As if anyone needed another reason to love Jelly Roll, the 39-year-old is melting hearts once again with his story of meeting Taylor Swift and sharing how their paths crossed long before meeting one another.
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In his recent cover story with PEOPLE, the Tennessee native shared he created lifelong memories with his daughter Bailee at a park donated to the city of Hendersonville in Tennessee by Swift. “I take a ridiculous, probably abnormal, amount of pride in being from Nashville, so anytime I can link a Tennessee connect, it tickles me,” he shared. “Taylor lived in Hendersonville for a while, and she had bought a playground. I used to push Bailee on that swing set that Taylor donated to Hendersonville.”
Jelly had never had the opportunity to thank Swift for the swing set that meant so much to him and his now 16-year-old daughter, that is, until she made her way over to meet him at the 2024 GRAMMYs.
“My wife [Bunnie XO] said, ‘I think Taylor’s coming over to holler at you,'” he said. “It was like the Red Sea parted for her.” The moment was a big one for Jelly, who says nerves got the best of him as he attempted to express to Taylor exactly what that swing set meant to him.
“[I] couldn’t even remember what swing set it was,” he shared. “I’m looking at Taylor Swift, and I have a reason to explain to her why I like her so much, and I’m going, ‘You built the swing set somewhere, my daughter, I pushed her on it.’ I did so bad! Definitely was at a loss for words in that moment.”
Perhaps Jelly Roll will have the opportunity to redeem himself at the 2025 GRAMMYs where he and Swift are both nominated.
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