Aaron Rodgers is revealing shocking new details of his explosive breakup with Shailene Woodley.
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On an episode of "Not Just Football with Cam Heyward," Rodgers explained that he didn't "ruin" the actress' life during their 2022 split.
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"I proposed to Shailene and she said yes.
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Now, she maybe felt like she was forced to make a decision.
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She could have said no," Rodgers began.
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"A couple days after that, she tells me, 'Before we get married, I gotta go f–k this guy,' and I’m like — because her story is that I ruined her life and gave her crazy depression because I left her.
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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," he said.
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She literally told me, 'I don’t want to be with you' after we tried some reconciliation in 2021.
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There’s just a lot of narrative out there that isn’t true," Rodgers clarified.
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"There’s just a lot of narrative out there that isn’t true."
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The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback addressed Woodley directly on the podcast.
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"I’m actually a good partner.
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I don’t wish you any harm … and Shai, you left me, you took the ring off.
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What are we talking about regarding me ruining your life?" Rodgers asked.
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A representative for Woodley did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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Woodley and Rodgers first sparked dating rumors in July 2020, but the two kept their relationship under wraps until going public a few days before they announced their engagement in February 2021.
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In February 2022, the former couple called off their engagement but briefly reconciled before splitting again that April.
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During a 2024 interview with Outside magazine, Woodley shared that she went through a traumatic event in 2022, the same year she and Rodgers split for good.
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"I had a really awful, traumatic thing happen in early 2022," she said, without naming anything specific.
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"I felt like I lost my soul, my self, my happiness, my joy.
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I really understood depression and anxiety and, like, complete soul detachment."
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Woodley did say that she chose to stay in a "toxic situation" because she was empathizing with "someone else."
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Without naming the person, Woodley said that "empathy kind of kept me in this loop of feeling everything for everyone."
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During the same interview, the 34-year-old actress admitted that she hasn't "shared much" about her former romance with the 42-year-old NFL star "because it always makes me cry."
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But it was beautiful," the "Big Little Lies" star told the outlet after her "eyes welled up."
In a September 2024 interview with Bustle, Woodley alluded to the reason behind their split as she shared her disdain for pretentious behavior.
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I’m very uninterested in the performance of people at this moment in life.
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I’m uninterested in the external value that we put on everything," the Emmy Award nominee said.
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"I find the performance of being something else in order to receive love or acceptance or work from others to be the ultimate form of soul death."
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Woodley told the outlet that her opposition to performative behavior was due to previously suffering from a "broken heart."
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"A broken heart that healed and broke again," she explained.
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"I fell in love over and over with unavailability.
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I’m very open as a human.
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I love easy, and I care easy, but I do not love lightly, and I do not care lightly."
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"It’s really taken me a lot of time to understand that it’s not on me to fix or heal or do anything about [a relationship] other than protect the deep care and love that I have for the world and for my people," Woodley continued.
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"Ultimately, that has helped me walk away without the need to understand why certain things didn’t play out the way that I may have desired them to.
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"I give all of myself," she added of her approach to relationships.
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"I used to be a person who, if you crossed me and disrespected that, would continue to give and give.
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And now you cross me, I respectfully go, ‘Thank you so much for that information.
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I wish you well.’
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Both Woodley and Rodgers have moved past their relationship.
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