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    Jelly Roll threw his phone in the Cumberland River because he felt "overwhelmed" by texts

    The 'Son of a Sinner' singer had vowed to toss his phone "off the Shelby Street Bridge" in Nashville, Tennessee if his 'Beautifully Broken Tour' went the way he wanted it to


    In a video recently shared by his wife Bunnie Xo on TikTok, Jelly got his driver to take him to the body of water, and he threw his handset over.

    Speaking on his partner's 'Dumb Blonde' podcast this week, he explained: "I was getting to a point that I was getting hundreds and hundreds of text messages a day.

    "And I just was overwhelmed. And then when I would finally sit down to go back through them, I would just feel like such a bad human for missing them.

    "I was carrying a lot of guilt. This phone was causing me a lot of guilt."

    The 40-year-old country music star insisted he will be using a "flip phone next year".

    He added: "It's healthy for me. I would use my phone as a way to [dissociate] as well... I would be missing text messages and know there were so many over there that it was too stressful to go check.

    "So I would avoid that by mindless scrolling or, you know, I had these news alerts on my phone, and then we become big news stories all the time.

    "It's like, I started getting caught up in that."

    Jelly insisted having a smartphone wasn't making him "a better person".

    He explained: "I wanna be a better husband. I wanna be a better father. I wanna be a better human. I wanna be a better artist.

    "I realised the phone does not help me be any of the stuff I actually wanna be."

    And Bunnie revealed it isn't the first time the 'Need a Favor' singer has thrown a phone away.

    She said: "Like, my husband has been throwing phones away.. I've had the same number for almost a decade. My husband has had about 17."

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