Aaron Rodgers drops bombshell on Shailene Woodley
The NFL superstar and the actress went from a private romance to a surprise engagement before their relationship eventually collapsed in 2022. Rodgers and Woodley began dating in 2020, not long after Rodgers ended his relationship with NASCAR driver Danica Patrick. That changed in early 2021 when Rodgers revealed that he was engaged during his NFL MVP acceptance speech. Rodgers has now said that he proposed in December 2020, only months after the pair began dating.
Woodley later confirmed that she was the woman he was referring to.
The quarterback claimed that only a couple of days after he proposed, Woodley told him that before they got married, she wanted to sleep with another man. Rodgers also said that Woodley removed her engagement ring by March and that attempts to reconcile later failed. Woodley ultimately told him she did not want to be with him, according to Rodgers. “I haven’t shared much about my relationship with Aaron because it always makes me cry,” Woodley said at the time. Woodley said she had gone through a “really awful, traumatic thing” in early 2022 and described feeling as though she had lost her sense of self, happiness and joy.
Aaron Rodgers and Shailene Woodley once looked like one of the most unexpected power couples in sports and Hollywood. Now, years after their split, Rodgers has reopened the story with a series of explosive claims about what really happened behind closed doors. The pairing caught fans off guard. Rodgers was one of the NFL’s biggest stars, while Woodley was already an established Hollywood actress known for movies including The Fault in Our Stars and the Divergent franchise. The couple kept much of their relationship away from the spotlight. The engagement came surprisingly quickly. He also denied that he was the one who ended the relationship. She also discussed experiencing depression and anxiety.