Aaron Rodgers made a shocking claim about his ex-fiancée Shailene Woodley during a dramatic interview about his life both on and off the football field.
“I dated Shailene. I propose and she says yes,” Rodgers, 42, said on the Thursday, September 10, episode of the “Not Just Football” podcast. “Maybe she felt like she was forced to make a decision. She could have said no. But a couple days after that, she tells me, ‘You know, before we get married, I gotta go f*** this guy.’”
Rodgers and Woodley, 34, publicly announced their engagement in February 2021. It was confirmed in early 2022 that the couple had split before making it to the altar.
“Her story is that I ruined her life and gave her crazy depression because I left her,” Rodgers continued. “But the actuality is, she told me that and then she took off the ring by March [2021]. I proposed in December [2020]. Took off the ring by March. We had a couple times where we tried to get reunited and nothing ever happened. There wasn’t even a relationship in ‘22 to break off.”
The quarterback continued, “She literally told me, ‘I don’t want to be with you’ after we tried to have some kind of reconciliation in 2021. There’s just a lot of narratives out there that are just not true.”
Us has reached out to Woodley for comment.
Rodgers sternly urged his “exes” like Woodley and former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick to halt their “narratives.”
“It’s been years,” he said. “What are you talking about? You’re not relevant. Stop talking about me. Move on with your life. Live your life.”
Rodgers said his exes are “lying about what actually happened,” calling himself “a good partner.”
In September 2024, Woodley explained that the dissolution of her relationship with Rodgers had left her with “a broken heart that healed and broke again.”
“I fell in love over and over with unavailability,” she told Bustle. “I’m very open as a human. I love easy and I care easy, but I do not love lightly, and I do not care lightly.”
Woodley continued at the time, “It’s really taken me a lot of time to understand that it’s not on me to fix or heal or do anything about [a relationship] other than protect the deep care and love that I have for the world and for my people. Ultimately, that has helped me walk away without the need to understand why certain things didn’t play out the way that I may have desired them to.”
