Jelly Roll reflects on emotional talk with daughter about his troubled past

Jelly Roll opened up an emotional father-daughter talk he had with his daughter Bailee about his past mistakes

In a recent with People magazine for this week’s cover story, the 39-year-old country singer reflected on the conversation with the 16-year-old daughter.

“[I said], ‘I don’t judge you based on what you do. I judge you based on what I know you’re capable of,’ ” he told the outlet.

The Grammy-nominated singer went on to say, “‘You’re so much smarter than I was at 16. You’re so much better, so much more emotionally intelligent. You can read a room so much better. So don’t try to talk your way out of getting in trouble, Miss Sassy, by weaponizing my past.’”

The father of two further praised the teenager saying that she will have a bright future and Bailee is “totally ahead” of where he was as a teenager.

“When I look at what she does that I consider horrible, I look back at what I was doing at 16, and I’m like, ‘Oh man…’ When I’m hard on her about stuff or a little pushy, she knows it’s from love,” he noted

It is pertinent to mention that including Bailee, Jelly is also the father to his 8-year-old son Noah.