Aaron Rodgers, the 42-year-old Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback, just went absolutely nuclear, claiming his former fiancée, “Big Little Lies” actress Shailene Woodley, told him she wanted to sleep with another man just days after accepting his marriage proposal. This isn’t some quiet aside, this is Rodgers, fresh off a Sept. 10 podcast appearance on teammate Cam Heyward’s “Not Just Football” show, laying everything out about his past relationships and, frankly, he’s not holding back.
The Proposal, The Demand, and The Split
Rodgers is tired of his name being dragged through the mud, saying he hasn’t forgotten all the “alleged lies” his former flames have told. He opened up about the wild exchange with Woodley, recalling, “I propose, and she says ‘Yes.’ Now, she maybe felt like she was forced to make a decision. She could have said no.” But then comes the bombshell: “But not a couple of days after that, she tells me, ‘You know, before we get married, I gotta go f— this guy.’” Wow. Talk about a cold shower for a guy who just popped the question!
According to Rodgers, Woodley also claims that he “ruined her life and gave her a crazy depression” after they split. But he adamantly states that it was Woodley who called off their one-year engagement in March 2021. They even tried to get back together. Rodgers said, “We had a couple of times that we tried to get reunited, and nothing ever happened.” He added, straight up, “She literally told me, ‘I don’t want to be with you.’”
Why Rodgers Is *Finally* Speaking Out
Rodgers made it crystal clear he’s fed up with what he calls “false narratives” about his past. He feels like several of his exes have continually painted him as “the problem” in their relationships over the years, claims he “strongly disputes.” He didn’t pull any punches, arguing that his former partners “portray things a certain way, because they can get away with it” and that they continue to use his name “to generate attention for themselves.” Woodley, in a 2024 interview with “Outside” magazine, described her relationship with Rodgers as a “toxic situation,” saying, “I felt like I lost my soul, my self, my happiness, my joy. 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.” Former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick, who dated Rodgers from 2018 to 2020, even described her relationship with him as “emotionally abusive.”
Rodgers strongly denies being a bad partner. He pointed out, straight up, “The height of their fame is when they were with me. They get clicks when they say my name … they get clicks when they say my name because I am a lightning rod. People actually give a f—.” His message to them was brutal and direct: “Stop talking about me. You’re not relevant … Move on with your life. Also, two, you’re lying about what actually happened … Like, I was actually a good partner.”
This isn’t just some locker room gossip; Rodgers just put his entire reputation on the line with these statements. The NFL world is watching how this plays out, and whether his exes will stay quiet or fire back. You gotta wonder if this is the last we’ll hear of it, or if this is just the opening whistle in a whole new game of public mud-slinging.
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Originally reported by The Sporting News.
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