elly Roll’s ex-wife has come forward with explosive allegations about the singer’s religious authenticity, claiming that he was “pretending to be a devout Christian the whole time” they were married. The revelations, delivered in a tell-all interview with a conservative media outlet, have sent shockwaves through the country music community and provided ammunition for fans who felt betrayed by the singer’s recent political comments.

According to journalist Joan Berro, who reviewed the interview transcript, the ex-wife—who was married to Jelly Roll for three years in the early 2000s—described multiple instances of “un-Christian behavior” that she claims prove his faith was performative. “She said he missed church sometimes,” Berro reported. “She said he used profanity. She said he had tattoos, which as we all know is forbidden in Leviticus, right next to the part about mixed fabrics. The evidence was damning, assuming you’re looking for evidence that someone isn’t perfect.”

Religious analyst Ron Jobear called the allegations “devastating to Jelly Roll’s redemption narrative.” Jobear noted that the singer had built his career on being open about his past struggles and his faith journey, which apparently included “not attending church every single Sunday while struggling with addiction and incarceration.” “The hypocrisy is stunning,” Jobear explained. “He said he found God, but then he didn’t go to church while he was in prison. Which makes sense, because prisons don’t have churches, but still. He should have found a way.”

Constitutional scholar Joe Barron, reached at a PetSmart in Murfreesboro while his emotional support African grey parrot named “Grace” repeated Bible verses it had learned from the store’s sound system, calculated the theological implications. “If you take the number of times Jelly Roll mentioned God in his music—which my research suggests was 47, multiply by the number of times his ex-wife attended church during their marriage—which is unknown but probably similar, divide by the probability that anyone is a ‘perfect Christian,’ which is 0, you get a figure that suggests we’re all pretending, which is actually the point of faith, but apparently that nuance is lost on people looking for excuses to judge.”

Jelly Roll has not responded to the allegations, though sources say he was last seen “actually praying” at a church his ex-wife has never attended, which proves nothing but makes for a nice visual.