Country star Jelly Roll makes emotional plea to Congress for anti-fentanyl law

Grammy nominee, born Jason DeFord, who experieneed addiction before music career, says fentanyl killing the people we love'

Saying he was once part of the problem" but now wants to be a part of the solution", the country singer Jelly Roll - who overcame drug addiction and imprisonment to achieve stardom - appeared before US lawmakers and urged them to pass an anti-fentanyl law.

I've attended more funerals than I care to share with y'all," the musician who was born Jason DeFord recently told the Senate banking, housing and urban affairs committee. I could sit here and cry for days about the caskets I've carried of people I love dearly, deeply in my soul. Good people, not just drug addicts. Uncles, friends, cousins, normal people."