Shailene Woodley opened up about why she rarely discusses her relationship with her ex-fiancé Aaron Rodgers.
In a recent interview with outdoor magazine, the 33-year-old actress admitted she hasn’t “shared much” about her past romance with the 41-year-old NFL star “because it always makes me cry.”
“It wasn’t right. But it was beautiful,” the “Big Little Lies” star told the outlet after her “eyes welled up.”
Shailene Woodley said she still gets emotional when she talks about her ex Aaron Rodgers. (Getty)
Woodley and Rodgers first sparked dating rumors in July 2020, but the two kept their relationship a secret until it went public a few days before announcing their engagement in February 2021. In February 2022, the former couple called off their engagement but reconciled shortly before splitting. again that April.
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In another part of her interview with Outside, Woodley noted that something very terrible, traumatic, had happened in early 2022. The “Divergent” actress did not refer to the New York Jets quarterback by name, although she noted that she was in a “toxic situation” at the time, but chose not to free herself because she was “empathizing with someone else.”
‘It wasn’t right. But it was beautiful.’
Woodley said having “empathy” has kept me “in this cycle of feeling everything for everyone.”
“I knew I was depressed when I looked at a tree and felt nothing,” says Woodley, a passionate environmentalist. “That was the lowest low of my life.”
Woodley credited her stylist and best friend Kris Zero with lifting her out of her depression.
“Sometimes I was so mad at her,” Woodley said of Zero. “But then we went surfing, and for ten minutes that day I thought life was going to be okay again. Then the depression came back and she said, ‘We’re volunteering at the horse ranch!’ And we would find some random horse ranch, and we would clean up horses….”
“We cleaned the hooves and brushed the horses, and for 20 minutes that day I thought life was going to be okay again,” she remembers. “And then the depression came back and she woke me up the next morning and said, ‘Let’s go for a walk and take garbage bags and pick up trash!’”
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Woodley said she began to recover from her depression after about six months.
The two called off their engagement in early 2022. (Getty Images)
Shortly after their initial split in February 2022, Rodgers shared a tribute to Woodley in an Instagram post. The Four-time NFL MVP wrote: “@shailenewoodley, thank you for letting me chase you for the first few months after we met, and finally letting me catch up with you and be a part of your life.”
“Thank you for always having my back, for the incredible kindness you show me and everyone you meet, and for showing me what unconditional love looks like. I love you and am grateful for you,” he added .
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In a September interview with Bustle, Woodley hinted at the reason behind their split while sharing her disdain for pretentious behavior.
“I’m very disinterested in people’s achievements at this point in life. I’m not interested in the external value we place on everything,” the Emmy Award nominee said. “I find the performance of being something else in order to receive love, acceptance, or work from others is the ultimate form of soul death.”
Woodley told the outlet that her opposition to performative behavior was due to the fact that she previously suffered from a “broken heart.”
Woodley said their relationship was “beautiful” but “not good.” (Getty)
“A broken heart that healed and broke again,” she explained. “I fell in love over and over again because I was unavailable. I’m very open as a person. I love easily, and I care easily, but I don’t love easily, and I don’t care easily.”
“It really took me a long time to understand that it is not up to me to fix or heal a relationship, or do anything other than protect the deep care and love that I have for the world and for my people ” Woodley continued. . “Ultimately, that allowed me to walk away without the need to understand why certain things didn’t go the way I wanted them to.”
“I give all of myself,” she added of her approach to relationships. “I used to be a person who, if you bothered me and didn’t respect that, would keep giving and giving. And now that you’re bothering me, I respectfully say, ‘Thank you very much for that information. Have a beautiful life. I wish you’re doing well.’ Not interested.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to a representative for Rodgers for comment.
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