Jelly Roll has likened his overeating struggles to drug addiction.

The 41-year-old musician has been through a well-publicised weight loss journey - losing almost 300lbs since 2022 - but confessed that he can sometimes succumb to "stress eating".

Jelly, who separated from his wife Bunnie Xo earlier this year, said in a new video on his YouTube channel: "I've been overeating the last three or four days and I was feeling myself stress eating.

"And then, what else happened, was the addict in me came out."

The Son of a Sinner artist continued: "We had this show at this one spot and I love Thai catering and they have a dairy-free skillet cookie. I don't eat nothing like that. I'm, like, a drug addict. I can't eat that, because if I eat one, I eat two. I eat four.

"Later that night, I'm at the taco truck getting the peanut butter fluff. Next thing I know, we're at the rest stop and I'm looking for a chocolate bar.

"I'm like, 'Damn, I don't... that fast, went from now I've consumed 2,000 extra calories today that I didn't even see coming."

Jelly - whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord - explained how one bad decision relating to food can lead to several days of consequences.

He said: "Then that breeds the last three days of having to really... Now I have to pay attention to it, cut it's like the taste of blood. Now it's going to take me a whole 'nother week to get that back completely out of my mouth. I can't have one anything, you know what I mean?

"My problem is, it could be healthy - if you put a big bowl of strawberries, if you put a bowl this big of strawberries in front of me and leave me alone, I will eat the entire bowl of strawberries.

"I got to take a few strawberries and be like, 'Put the bowl away.' You know what I mean? Or just not eat the strawberries at all."

The Grammy-winning star added: "What I learned is how you do anything is how you do everything. I'm like that with alcohol. I'm like that, I've never done, I've never done 'a shot'. I've never done 'a line' of cocaine. I've never smoked 'a joint'. You know what I mean?

"Either we're smoking all day, we're drinking all night, we're doing coke. That shows it's working for me. So it's like, once I realised that was my thing with food, now I just have things that are… like that skillet cookie -- I just don't eat it.

"People are like, 'Oh, you can have one for a cheat meal.' I was like, 'You can have one for a cheat meal. I can't.' You know what I'm saying? Cos it'll, they might be a five-day food bender for me."