Shailene Woodley seemingly can’t be bothered with Aaron Rodgers’ latest claims.
Woodley, 34, offered no response when asked about the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback’s description of their relationship after she was spotted outside a West Hollywood pre-Emmys fundraiser on Sunday, September 13,, according to a video posted by TMZ.
Instead of directly answering the question, Woodley simply looked at the camera, smiled and laughed at the mention of Rodgers’ name before continuing into the fundraiser’s venue alongside a friend.
Her lack of response comes after Rodgers, 42, opened up about his relationship with her and ex-girlfriend Danica Patrick during a Thursday, September 10, appearance on the “Not Just Football” podcast.
“The height of their fame is when they were with me,” Rodgers said of Woodley. “They get clicks when they say my name. Just like the idiots on TV get clicks when they say my name because I am a lightning rod.”
Rodgers and Woodley met during the COVID-19 pandemic and confirmed their engagement in February 2021. That’s when, according to Rodgers, Woodley came to him with an unusual request.
“I dated Shailene. I propose and she says yes,” Rodgers recalled last week. “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.’”
Us reported in February 2022 that the pair had ultimately split, but as Rodgers tells it, there wasn’t much of a relationship to salvage by the time they called it quits.
“Her story is that I ruined her life and gave her crazy depression because I left her,” he said. “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.”
Rodgers 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.”
Rodgers also expressed his frustration regarding his exes’ decision to continue talking about him to the press even after their relationship ended.
“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.”
Woodley, for her part, previously referred to the aftermath of their breakup as the “darkest, hardest time in my life.”
She was working on the TV adaptation of Three Women at the time, and she said she was able to “process” her emotions through her character.
“It was winter in New York, and my personal life was s***ty, so it felt like a big pain bubble for eight months,” she recalled to PORTER magazine in 2023.
