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Bunny Zoe opens up about his latest run-in with the law.
The 45-year-old podcast host and author recently revealed that she was unceremoniously pulled over while driving without a license and had to go to jail as a result.
“Looks like your girlfriend has to book it herself. If I booked it, you guys would have seen all my old headshots, right? I’m going to go big, baby,” she said on the Nov. 21 episode of the Dumb Blonde podcast. “And I’m going to make a video blog of it.”
Bunny explained that her troubles began in 2020 when she got a ticket in Alabama while returning home from a family vacation.
The Married to Jelly Roll star said she didn’t remember getting the ticket, but when she was pulled over for having tinted car windows a few weeks ago, it stuck with her.
“(The officer) looked at my license and when he came back he said, “Do you know your license is suspended?” And I was like, “What?” When? How could this happen? ” she said.
The officer traced the suspension to an unpaid ticket in Alabama and released Bunny with a warning, but told him to “resolve” the situation.
Bunney said he paid the old ticket “immediately” when he got home, believing his license was reinstated.
But “the other day,” she was dragged back in and realized that she wasn’t actually solving the problem.
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“Maybe he was speeding, but I don’t know. I can’t confirm or deny it,” she said. “(The officer) goes to his car and comes back and says, ‘No, your license is still suspended.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry.’ What should I do? ‘And he said, ‘Well, that’s an arrestable crime.’ And I’m just like, ‘Hmm, hey.’
The officer told Bunney that they would not arrest him right away, but that he would have to “go to jail and book himself into jail” at some point within the week.
Bunny explained that she was able to confirm that she paid for her 2020 ticket on October 24th, and that she is currently working with a lawyer to handle the situation and find out why her suspended license was not reinstated.
“I hope I don’t get locked up (in prison). I’m worried,” she said. “I’m not built to go to jail or jail…I know we’re laughing at that, but we’re not kidding. Don’t drive with a suspended license. But I didn’t know. This ticket is from five years ago.”
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Bunny, who will publish her memoir Strip Down next year, has been open about her past legal history, which includes numerous arrests.
In an Instagram post earlier this month, she shared seven mugshots from her past, writing that she was “not ashamed” of the photos.
“They remind me of who I once was and how far grace has taken me,” she wrote. “Now I look at those photos and want to hug that little girl. She thought survival meant extreme independence, fighting in the streets, barking loudly and biting even harder.”
She said the last image in the post was from when she was 26 years old and was arrested for soliciting an undercover worker on a casino floor while in the throes of addiction.
“I can still see the drug residue on my skin, my bloodshot eyes, and the blank look on my face when I didn’t care if I woke up the next day. I was deep in my addiction and in survival mode,” she wrote. “I had to stop blaming and realize two things were true: I was the problem and I was the solution.”
