Aaron Rodgers appeared to throw some shade at his brother Jordan while discussing his reconciliation with the rest of their family.
“I’ve been really staunch, going back to when there was a schism, that I feel like that stuff should be off limits,” Aaron, 42, told The Athletic in a story published Monday, August 3. “Now, not everybody in the family adhered to the same thing, but there are different things, situations, experiences and people that actually change your life.
Aaron did not mention Jordan, 37, by name, but that won’t stop fans from reading between the lines. Jordan notably did not appear in photos when Aaron reunited with his parents and older brother, Luke, in July. Jordan also spoke publicly about the feud while competing on The Bachelorette in 2016.
“Me and Aaron don’t really have that much of a relationship,” he told his now-wife, JoJo Fletcher. “It’s just kind of the way he’s chosen to do life and I’ve chosen to stay close with my family and my parents and my brother. Yeah, it’s not ideal and I love him and I can’t imagine what it’s like to be in his shoes and have the pressure he has, the demands from people that he has. Don’t have hard feelings against him, it’s just how things go right now.”
As Aaron appears to have patched things up with Luke, 44, and parents Ed and Darla, he credited his mysterious wife, Brittani, for facilitating.
“She is the big impetus behind that [reconciliation],” he told The Athletic. “Not that she was pushing it, but just the way that she loves me and supports me, it’s allowed me to open up to that possibility. And it’s been a couple-year process of communication and spending time together, but that is a real blessing in my life to have those relationships back and to close that circle that was cut for so many years. With her by my side, we reopened that door, and it’s been really beautiful.”
Aaron first reflected on his reconciliation with his family in an interview with NFL Network on Saturday, August 1.
“I have been very closed off about that part of my life and I want to keep it that way, but there’s been a narrative that has gone on for too long that I wanted to kind of shut down,” he said. “And it’s been really beautiful to reconnect with them — all of them.”
Aaron has not publicly said exactly what led to the rift between him and his family, but he shared in his 2024 Netflix docuseries, Enigma, that their differences date back decades.
“It goes back to stuff from high school that kind of made me feel distant. Stuff in college, stuff post-college,” Aaron said. “I grew up in a very white, dogmatic church, and that just didn’t really serve me. It was very rigid in structure. I’m not a rigid person. Shame, guilt, judgment.”
