Singer Jelly Roll has had a checkered past, having spent around 40 times behind bars for drug charges.
But he said it was his daughter’s birth in 2008 that forced him to rethink his entire life, likening the watershed moment to Paul’s Damascus Road encounter in Scripture.
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Arrests started for the 39-year-old — whose birth name is Jason DeFord — when he was just a 14-year-old teen. His struggles ran deep, with drug use plaguing his life.
“I had to learn that you could drink alcohol without doing cocaine,” he told People magazine. “It took me a long time to learn that. I’ve never said that, but that’s real.”
Underscoring the severity of his issues, Jelly Roll added, “There was a long time where I just assumed, when people told me they drank without doing cocaine, I was like, I thought we only drank to do cocaine.”
Jelly Roll said he was in jail for crack cocaine when his daughter Bailee, 15, was born.
That moment seemed to have a profound impact on the singer, who likened it to the “Christian Scripture of when Saul turned into Paul on the Damascus
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