Your most embarrassing moment probably can’t compete with Jelly Roll’s.
The Grammy-nominated artist behind songs such as “I Am Not Okay” and “Save Me” was asked to name his when he appeared alongside fellow country music singer Luke Bryan, his costar on the current season of American Idol, on Thursday’s episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show. No one was prepared for the answer he gave.
“I pooped myself one time,” said Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord. “I did. I’m sorry!”
Watch the moment —which probably caused him to be embarrassed all over again — below.
In response, Bryan buckled over with laughter and Hudson hung her head.
Jelly Roll insisted that he hadn’t known it happened, but he claimed that people in the audience were aware of exactly what they had witnessed.
“I watched this crowd go from loving me to just being completely out. Just completely out,” Jelly Roll said. “I knew it.”
Bryan teased, “That’s why we love him right there.”
But Jelly Roll lamented, “And I overshared again.”
When Hudson asked Bryan how he was going to top that, he quipped, “My problem was I didn’t really get embarrassed about it when I did it.”
Bryan is a judge on the current, 23rd season of the reality competition, while Jelly Roll is serving as the show’s first artist in residence.
The tattooed singer isn’t the first celebrity to recently confess to having a bathroom emergency on stage. Modern Family alum Jesse Tyler Ferguson said on his Dinner’s On Me podcast in February that he learned a valuable lesson from a similar situation. It happened when he costarred in Broadway musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in 2009, and he and his costars ate a big lobster dinner before a performance.
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“You shouldn’t have a lobster dinner on a two-show day between shows. We were just like sh—ing,” Ferguson said. He recalled having “the worst gas.”
“I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m gonna poop my pants,'” Ferguson said. “And I remember there was a point on stage. Where me and [costar] Sarah Saltzberg, Sarah was sitting on the bleachers in character, but the focus wasn’t on us. And she goes, ‘Oh gosh, you know, if you have intestinal things going on…my dad’s always [saying] like, it’s really bad to keep it in. You just got to let it out.”
So he did, very close to the people watching.
“Someone in the audience goes, ‘Ew,'” Ferguson said. “And so that makes Sarah start laughing. She starts peeing herself.”
