Jelly Roll’s Protective Fatherhood Shines Through Amid Ex’s Legal Troubles

Country music’s Jelly Roll is determined to keep baby mama ex Felicia Beckwith at a distance to protect their teenage daughter, sources say — after the troubled addict was hit with a slew of felony drug charges in Tennessee.

Now, sources exclusively tell The National ENQUIRER that the Son of a Sinner singer won’t bankroll Beckwith’s legal defense and would rather see her behind bars finding sobriety than continue to put their 16-year-old, Bailee Ann, through more emotional agony.

Lawmen say Beckwith, 36, and two others were arrested after a traffic stop when a search of their car and a Johnson City home they were using turned up the powerful painkiller fentanyl, along with four handguns, pills, cash and almost a pound of crystal meth.

An source says, “Jelly Roll wants her as far away from himself and his daughter as possible.” Beckwith is charged with two felony counts of manufacture, delivery, sale and possession of methamphetamine, along with three misdemeanor counts of simple possession and possessing unlawful drug paraphernalia.

Sources say that upon hearing the news, the devoted dad was devastated for Bailee, who he and wife Bunnie Xo, 44, have had full custody of since she was 7 years old.

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The Nashville hitmaker, 40, says Beckwith has struggled with drug addiction “pretty much” since Bailee’s birth, which happened while former drug dealer Jelly was incarcerated himself.

The reformed hell-raiser says the recent arrest “broke my daughter’s heart.”

The source points out that bighearted Jelly’s efforts to allow Beckwith into Bailee’s life have been met with disastrous results.

After Beckwith claimed to have been clean and sober, Jelly and Bunnie let Bailee live with her mother in the summer of 2022. But the shattered teen returned from the visit claiming her mom had relapsed and talked her into drinking and doing drugs with her.

The insider says that the protective papa has kept Bailee away from Beckwith ever since — and won’t use his millions to help pay her legal bills.

In fact, Beckwith was listed in court as indigent and was appointed an attorney for her defense.

“He has his own history of drug arrests and doing time, but Jelly went through therapy and turned his life around, while Felicia still lives in her own hell of drug abuse that just puts Bailee through the wringer,” the insider says.

“Jelly has washed his hands of Felicia — he doesn’t want her world poisoning the world of their daughter or their family!”