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New York Jets fans aren’t the only people out there who get upset while talking about Aaron Rodgers. Shailene Woodley admitted in a new interview with Outside magazine that talking about her relationship with Rodgers still “always makes” her cry.
The interview and Aaron Rodgers talk came in a feature article titled “Here’s What It’s Like to Go Camping with Shailene Woodley.” “We spent a night under the stars with the actress and environmentalist, who opened up about her conservation work and how nature helped heal her broken heart,” the feature’s sub-headline reads.
At one point during the discussion with Outside, Shailene Woodley alluded to her past relationship with Aaron Rodgers, saying, “I had a really awful, traumatic thing happen in early 2022.” She added that she chose to remain in a “toxic situation.” Woodley and Rodgers broke up the first half of 2022.
“I felt like I lost my soul, my self, my happiness, my joy,” she said about the situation. “I really understood depression and anxiety and, like, complete soul detachment.”
Interestingly, those cryptic quotes came after she said, “I haven’t shared much about my relationship with Aaron because it always makes me cry. It was not right. But it was beautiful.”
In truth, she actually has shared quite a bit about it. In January of 2023, Shailene Woodley told Net-A-Porter that after her breakup with Aaron Rodgers, she “was going through the darkest, hardest time in my life; it was winter in New York, and my personal life was s—-, so it felt like a big pain bubble for eight months.”
Then, in September of 2024, Woodley discussed how her split from Aaron Rodgers impacted her personality in an interview with Bustle.
“I fell in love over and over with unavailability. I’m very open as a human. I love easy, and I care easy, but I do not love lightly, and I do not care lightly,” she said.
“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. 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.”
Apparently, despite those positive thoughts, she is still sorting through how to feel about the end of her relationship with Aaron Rodgers almost three years later.