Even as his star continues to rise, Jelly Roll knows there’s still work to do on himself mentally, physically and spiritually.
On Jay Shetty’s “On Purpose” podcast, the Grammy-nominated singer looked back on his arrests, including one for armed robbery at age 15, hoping his victims will forgive him.
“I really want to have a conversation with them. I’ve thought about reaching out. This has been 24 years ago now. And I just don’t know how that would even start — you know, how I would go about it — because sometimes I wonder if they might have even seen me in passing or are aware of my success,” Jelly Roll said, adding they’re on his “amends list.”
“I would just ask them to understand, I would ask them to just, one, forgive me, because there’s no excuse in that. The first accountability is, no matter how old I was, I had no business taking from anybody. Just the entitlement that I had, this, the world owed me enough that I could come take your stuff.
“I don’t know what I was even trying to be when I look back now,” the 39-year-old said.
“This is how I know I was 15 because the more when I try to make logic of it, I can’t. There was no logic to what I did. It made absolutely no sense. And I learned so much from it and the way that I interact with people.”