Alyssa DeFord Height, Age, Boyfriend, Husband, Family, Biography

 

Some Lesser Known Facts About Alyssa DeFord

• Alyssa’s mother left her when she was 3 months old.
  

  Alyssa DeFord during her childhood

• Alyssa left her home when she was 14 years old due to her abusive stepmother.

• She was expelled from high school due to her regularly getting involved in fights with other students.

• After leaving her parent’s home, she worked as a lifeguard for two years.

• She then switched to working as a mortgage broker in real estate in Las Vegas.

• When she was 19 years old, she decided to become a club dancer after learning that her coworkers also worked as dancers in clubs for additional income.

• She visited Cheetah’s Club in Las Vegas with an associate to perform. She left the club later at night after a person offered her $700 for a kink act, which she felt uncomfortable with.

• Following the incident, she took a long break and returned to dancing two years later, when she was 21.

• She kept working as a club dancer while also retaining a day job as she felt a moral dilemma due to her religious upbringing.

• Soon after, she started working as a call girl.

• She got in touch with her mother, Vanessa, when she was 22 years old through the instant messenger, AOL.

• Her mother suffered from drug addiction and mental illness.

• She was in an abusive relationship when she met singer Jelly Roll, which resulted in a serious injury to her larynx.
  

  Bruises on the face of Alyssa DeFord caused by her abusive boyfriend

• She met Jelly Roll, in 2015 during a concert of the band, Moonshine Bandits, in Las Vegas’ Country Saloon. At the time, Jelly Roll was a struggling artist.

• They entered a relationship after Alyssa invited him to stay in her house while he was visiting Las Vegas to film a music video in 2015.

• She was married twice before getting married to Jelly Roll.

• She married her first husband as he was under trial and they had planned to gain sympathy from the judge to prevent him from getting imprisoned.

• Their plan failed and her husband was sentenced to prison by the judge. They divorced after her husband was released from the prison.

• After some time, she married her second husband and remained married for 5 years. She divorced him as she found him lacking ambition and personal accountability.

• Alyssa quit using drugs including cocaine in 2017.

• In 2017, she and her husband, Jelly Roll, gained custody of his daughter, Bailee, from her biological mother, Felicia Beckwith.
  

  Alyssa DeFord with Jelly Roll, Ann DeFord, and Felicia Beckwith (left)

• In 2018, she quit drinking alcohol.

• She started her podcast, ‘Dumb Blonde’ in the same year. She also started her own clothing and merchandise brand using her name, ‘Bunnie Xo.’
  

  Alyssa DeFord in a still from her podcast, Dumb Blonde

• She is a fan of actress and singer, Dolly Parton, and named her podcast after one of her songs, ‘Dumb Blonde.’

• Jelly Roll and Alyssa DeFord separated after two years of marriage in 2018. They reconciled their relationship soon after.

• In July 2019, she revealed that she was regularly abused by her stepmother, Michelle, who was 17 at the time of her marriage to Alyssa’s father.

• She further revealed that Michelle came from an abusive household, which in turn, made her abusive towards Alyssa.

• In 2020, she started her OnlyFans account, a subscription-based social platform that allows fans to connect with content creators.

• In the same year, she launched a reality show, ‘Meet The DeFords’ on her YouTube channel.
  

  Alyssa DeFord in a still from Meet The DeFords

• She enjoys customizing her cars and in 2021, she took to TikTok to showcase her customised Mercedes-Benz G-Class AMG G 63.

• In April 2021, she revealed that she was in an open relationship with her husband.

• After getting diagnosed with cancer in 2022, her father moved to Tennessee from Texas to stay close to her.

• She served as a caregiver to her mother in 2022, before she passed away.
  

  Alyssa DeFord with her mother

• She quit working in the sex industry in 2023 after she was able to make a similar amount of money through her clothing and merchandise brand.

• On 19 August 2023, she took to her Instagram account to reveal how after quitting alcohol and drugs, she has started suffering from various mental issues such as anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

• On 31 August 2023, she visited Las Vegas and renewed her marriage vows with her husband.
  

  Alyssa DeFord and Jelly Roll during the renewal of their wedding vows

• She took to her podcast. ‘The Dumb Blonde’ in 2024 to reveal that she wasn’t near her father during his death as they were not on talking terms due to a fight and said,
  

  This entire situation of us not talking to each other was because he came to me and told me that his wife was abusing him. And I — rightfully so, as his daughter — stuck up for him, and he turned on me because of that.”

• Alyssa further claimed that she fought with her stepmother, Suzanne, as she tried to keep Alyssa away from her father and didn’t inform her about him getting admitted to the hospital.

• In March 2024, she created a trust fund for Kalista, a student who was bullied in school after she had drawn Alyssa and Jelly Roll’s pictures.

• On 8 May 2024, she met psychic medium, Tyler Henry on her podcast ‘Dumb Blonde’ and talked about her deceased ex-boyfriend, Tony.
  

  Tyler Henry and Alyssa DeFord in a still from the Dumb Blonde podcast

• She further revealed that she suffered from a miscarriage of their child.

• She revealed her plans to become a mother using in vitro fertilization with a surrogate in July 2024.

• In July 2024, she was diagnosed with an aneurysm on her carotid artery. But, after she visited a neurosurgeon, she was informed that she was diagnosed wrongly and asked to get another scan after six months.

• According to Alyssa, the diagnosis scared her and made her re-evaluate her relationship with God.

• She started using Tirzepatide, a medication used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and weight loss in October 2024.

• In 2024, she claimed that convicted murderer Wade Wilson had given out her number to random people after she had talked to him about a potential docuseries on his crimes.

• She is an animal enthusiast and owns a bulldog that she has named Chachi.
  

  Alyssa DeFord with her dog