Shailene Woodley’s friends were reportedly “alarmed” after Aaron Rodgers made explosive remarks about his past relationship with the actress.
The 42-year-old NFL quarterback claimed that Woodley, 34, his former fiancée, asked to “go f***” another man before they got married.
Rodgers, a Super Bowl champion, proposed to the ‘Paradise’ star in December 2021. Their engagement ended three months later, after the pair had publicly confirmed their romance a year before.
Speaking on Thursday’s episode of the ‘Not Just Football’ podcast, Rodgers said the ‘Paradise’ actress told him she needed to “go f***” another man before later telling him she no longer wanted to be with him.
According to TMZ, people close to Woodley have pushed back against the Pittsburgh Steelers star’s disparaging comments, which reportedly left her inner circle concerned.
Friends of the Hollywood actress reportedly described Rodgers’ comments as “completely out of character,” adding that the married football player has not spoken with Woodley for more than two years.
Shailene Woodley’s friends were reportedly left “alarmed” by Aaron Rodgers’ explosive comments
Rodgers claimed the Hollywood star asked to “go f***” another man before their planned marriage
“We’re questioning why a married dude is bringing up an ex he hasn’t spoken with in over 2 years,” an insider told the outlet.
They also said Rodgers knows Woodley is a notably private person and would understand that she would not welcome him discussing their former relationship in public.
The four-time MVP made the explosive claims about their split in his podcast appearance this week.
‘I proposed to Shailene and she said yes. Now, she maybe felt like she was forced to make a decision. She could have said no,’ Rodgers told Pittsburgh Steelers teammate Cam Heyward.
‘A couple days after that she tells me, “Before we get married, I gotta go f*** this guy,” and I’m like – because her story is that I ruined her life and gave her crazy depression because I left her.
‘But in actuality, she told me that and then she took off the ring by March – I proposed in December – and we had a couple of times where we tried to get reunited and nothing ever happened. There wasn’t even a relationship in 2022 to break off.
‘She literally told me, “I don’t want to be with you” after we tried some reconciliation in 2021. There’s just a lot of narrative out there that isn’t true.’
In 2024, Woodley described the break down of her relationship with Rodgers as a ‘traumatic thing.’
The 42-year-old Super Bowl champion proposed to ‘Paradise’ star Woodley in December 2021
Woodley described the break down of her relationship with Rodgers as a ‘traumatic thing’
‘I had a really awful, traumatic thing happen in early 2022,’ she said. ‘I felt like I lost my soul, my self, my happiness, my joy,’ she explained.
Woodley said her empathy for ‘someone else’ kept her in a ‘toxic situation.’
‘Empathy,’ she added, ‘kind of kept me in this loop of feeling everything for everyone.’
‘I knew I was depressed when I looked at a tree and felt nothing,’ she continued, calling it ‘the lowest low of my life.’ The depression began to dissolve after six months of activities with her best friend, stylist Kris Zero.
The NFL legend also criticized another former lover, Danica Patrick, saying she was ‘depressed’ during their relationship and they suffered with ‘intimacy’ issues.
The veteran quarterback, who is now married to a mystery woman named ‘Brittani,’ also took aim at NASCAR icon Patrick, another ex-girlfriend of his, during his explosive interview.
Former NASCAR driver Patrick and Rodgers, who is poised to start his final NFL season on Sunday, started dating in January 2018 and made their red-carpet debut at that year’s ESPY awards.
At the end of 2019 they bought a home together in Malibu and spent the first few months of 2020 living together in the trendy California beach town. However, their relationship didn’t last much longer as they split in July 2020 after just over two years together.