How Aaron Rodgers Met His Secret Wife Brittani in 2017 (Getty Images)
He described her public narrative — that he ruined her life and caused her depression — as the opposite of what actually happened, claiming she took off the ring by March and that “there wasn’t even a relationship in ’22 to break off.
“I met my wife in 2017,” Aaron Rodgers said on the podcast. “I knew I was supposed to be with this one person, but we were separated by an ocean for a lot of it,” Rodgers said. Rodgers said he proposed to Woodley in December and she said yes, but days later she told him she needed to sleep with another man before they married.
“At the time, she was leaving the states and going back to Europe and my biggest regret is not begging her to stay or just, like, proposing right there. What followed was years of emotional distance, crossed timing, and two people caught in different chapters of their lives. His account of the Woodley split was even more explosive. ” Woodley has not responded to the claims.
When Rodgers first mentioned Brittani on The Pat McAfee Show in March 2026, he described her clearly: “She would make funny comments like, ‘I would never live in Green Bay,’ and ‘I don’t want to be a player’s wife. He has never publicly shared her last name, she has no social media, and the two eloped quietly in 2025. Because she loves me and supports me and wants to spend the rest of our lives together and start a family together, “She signed up for this.
Rodgers confirmed they eloped but gave almost nothing else away — only that he had a small surprise arranged when he proposed overseas.
“Now, I’m with somebody who’s private, who doesn’t want to be in the public eye, didn’t sign up to be a celebrity, doesn’t want to be a part of it,” Rodgers said in a separate interview. “She didn’t sign up for this,” he told McAfee. She’s not a public person. That desire for privacy has defined their entire relationship. His reasoning is personal, but it also reads as a direct lesson drawn from experience.