A vulnerable Machine Gun Kelly opens up about his troubled relationship with his mother in a raw conversation with Bunnie XO on the eighth season opener of her popular podcast, Dumb Blonde.
“I would like to say for the record I love my mom dearly and I misrepresented her a lot early in my career,” Kelly tells Bunnie XO in the clip, which premieres below. “And not misrepresented in the sense of not speaking truth. I was speaking my truth, but I didn’t give the masses the chance to understand her truth.”
His pain came from his mother not trying to find him after she left the family when he was young, leading to several years of estrangement. “You gotta get to me… come f—ing find me no matter what it takes,” he says.
Kelly wrote about his issues with his mother in his searing 2019 song, “Burning Memories,” whose lyrics include, “How’d you leave your only child at nine for another dude?/ All the years that you ignore me left me sleepless in the bed/ I hope daddy got some kids because your only son is dead/ I spent 20 years waiting on the stairs/ Now I’m finished thinking anyone’ll ever hear these prayers.”
Kelly reconciled with his mother in 2021 and then posted a photo of the two together on Instagram in 2022 with the caption, “Introducing my mom.”
Bunnie XO isn’t the only member of the family spending quality time with Kelly lately. Her husband, Jelly Roll, and Kelly released new song “Lonely Road” on July 26, which they worked on for more than two years off and on. The song interpolates John Denver’s 1971 classic “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”
Bunnie XO’s podcast sees her interviewing celebrities from all walks of life, including clairvoyants like Tyler Henry, pro wrestlers such as Saraya, and burlesque queen Dita Von Teese. A future episode this season will feature her conversation with Elle King.
The full podcast debuts Monday (Aug. 5) on all podcast providers, including Spotify and Apple Music. Watch the clip below.