Shailene Woodley Admits Talking About Aaron Rodgers ‘Always Makes Me Cry’

Shailene Woodley seems to still have some painful feelings about her ex-boyfriend Aaron Rodgers.
In a new interview with Outside magazine, the “Divergent” star admits that she still has a hard time talking about the NFL quarterback, with whom she broke up in February 2022.
“I haven’t shared much about my relationship with Aaron because it always makes me cry,” Woodley told the magazine, growing tearful. “It was not right. But it was beautiful.”
In the article, Woodley keeps mentions of her ex to a minimum, but said she “had a really awful, traumatic thing happen in early 2022,” which she said led to months of depression.
“I felt like I lost my soul, my self, my happiness, my joy. I really understood depression and anxiety and, like, complete soul detachment,” Woodley said, noting that she stayed in a “toxic situation” because “empathy kind of kept me in this loop of feeling everything for everyone.”
In a 2023 interview, Woodley spoke about the challenges of dating someone “very, very famous” because with it came “scrutiny, opinions, the desire for people to know my life and his life and our life.”
Woodley and Rodgers started dating during the pandemic, and she announced their engagement in February 2021.
During her relationship with Rodgers, Woodley defended him against a Daily Mail article that misidentified a man in Los Angeles as the Green Bay Packers quarterback and falsely claimed he had violated the NFL’s COVID-19 protocols by breaking quarantine.
She said that the man mistaken for Rodgers didn’t have the same, er, body proportions as her beau.
“I know Aaron’s body VERY well. First off his feet, ahem and no offense to this rando dude, are a LOT bigger,” Woodley wrote, added a winking emoji.
Meanwhile, Rodgers’ most public comment about the relationship came after the breakup, when he thanked Woodley on Instagram for “letting me chase after you the first couple months after we met, and finally letting me catch up to you and be a part of your life.”