Aaron Rodgers has made a startling claim about his former fiancée Shailene Woodley, alleging in a new interview that the actress asked to be intimate with another person after accepting his marriage proposal.
Speaking on Thursday’s episode of the “Not Just Football” podcast, the 42-year-old NFL quarterback looked back on his December 2020 engagement to Woodley, 34, saying he understood that she may have “felt like she was forced to make a decision,” though he added that she “could have said no.”
According to Rodgers, Woodley initially accepted the proposal, but he alleged that only days later she told him, “Before we get married I gotta go f–k this guy.”
Rodgers did not identify the person he claimed Woodley was referencing. He also alleged that the Emmy-nominated “Big Little Lies” star had removed her engagement ring by March 2021.
The quarterback said the pair made a few attempts to reconnect, but nothing ultimately came of them. “There wasn’t even a relationship in 2022 to break off,” Rodgers said, claiming Woodley told him after their 2021 reconciliation efforts, “I don’t want to be with you.”
He railed against Woodley — and his other exes — bashing him in interviews over the years because he’s “a lightning rod” who will “get [them] clicks.”
Rodgers demanded, “Move on with your life. Don’t mention me.”
“Shai, you left me, you took the ring off,” he continued. “Her story is that I ruined her life and gave her crazy depression because I left her. … What are we talking about regarding me ruining your life?”
Woodley’s rep did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment on Rodgers’ claims.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers star’s comments appeared to be referencing Woodley’s 2024 interview with Outside magazine during which she said her relationship with Rodgers was “not right” — and discussed a “really awful, traumatic” unspecified incident in early 2022.
“I felt like I lost my soul, my self, my happiness, my joy,” she said. “I really understood depression and anxiety and, like, complete soul detachment. I knew I was depressed when I looked at a tree and felt nothing.”
The “Secret Life of the American Teenager” alum dubbed this era “the lowest low of [her] life.”
In 2024, Woodley also spoke to Bustle about falling in love “over and over with unavailability” — but no longer being “interested” in people who “cross” or “disrespect” her.
She called the split the “darkest, hardest time of [her] life” in a Net-a-Porter sitdown in January 2023.
“My personal life was s–tty, so it felt like a big pain bubble for eight months,” Woodley recalled at the time.
News broke in February 2021 that the former couple started dating the previous year, with their engagement making headlines days later.
The duo had called it quits by early 2022.
Woodley has not debuted a new romance since their breakup, while Rodgers is married to a mystery woman named Brittani.
He called his spouse “the one that got away” Thursday, explaining that they first dated and split in 2017 before later reuniting.