Jelly Roll just dropped a bombshell about a terrifying accident he kept quiet for months.
The 41-year-old singer revealed over the weekend that he was rushed to the hospital back in January after flipping his ATV and breaking his collarbone — just days before the Grammy Awards.
“I’ve been keeping a secret from y’all,” he admitted in an Instagram video Sunday.
Standing next to the repaired four-wheeler, he told fans it was his first time riding it again since the crash. “Y’all just took this thing out for the first time since I flipped it. I broke my collarbone,” he said.
The “Need a Favor” singer confessed he was nervous to get back on the ATV, worried that if he waited too long, the fear would only grow. “I just knew if I didn’t get back on it sooner than later, I was just going to be more and more afraid of it,” he explained.
Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord, initially thought he had completely totaled the vehicle. But one of his brothers managed to fix it, restoring it to what he called “brand new.”
What makes the story even wilder? He attended the 2026 Grammy Awards with that broken collarbone — and didn’t tell anyone.
“I was out there running all over the Grammys with a broken collarbone,” he said. “Every time I hugged somebody that week, I wanted to scream. Every time somebody squeezed me, dude, I thought I was gonna cry.”
He also shared an X-ray of the injury, along with photos from the crash and footage of himself on stage at the awards show.
WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW:
His wife, Bunnie Xo, posted her own emotional video showing him in a hospital bed wearing a neck brace. “This happened in January, worst phone call to ever get,” she wrote. “But we got through it thank goodness & he’s healed completely.”
Despite the painful injury, Jelly Roll still walked the red carpet and had a huge night. The three-time Grammy winner took home best contemporary country album for Beautifully Broken, best contemporary Christian music performance/song for Hard Fought Hallelujah and best country duo/group performance for Amen.
Backstage, he reflected on what the wins meant to him. “I think there’s a lot of people that are watching the Grammys tonight that feel like they’ve been represented for the first time in a long time on this kind of stage,” he said. “And I’m excited to be that guy to do it.”
As for the ATV crash? Jelly Roll summed it up simply: “Sometimes the machine can do more than the user thinks it can. This was all user error. Moral of the story, get back on that pony, baby.”