Aaron Rodgers revealed at a press conference Tuesday that he secretly married someone “a couple months ago,” but he didn’t reveal any basic details, such as the name of his questionably lucky bride.
Yes, “questionably lucky” because two of his famous ex-girlfriends, Danica Patrick and Shailene Woodley, have been vocal in recent months about how each of their respective relationships with the divisive NFL quarterback were “emotionally abusive” and “toxic.”
“Everything was torn to bits,” Patrick said on the May 21 episode of “The Sage Steele Show,” People reported. “Yeah, he leaves a trail of blood,” the former race car driver said about Rodgers, who just signed a one-year contract with the Pittsburg Steelers.
“I don’t think I’m saying too much earth-shattering stuff after we — there’s been enough out there,” Patrick said.
Meanwhile, Woodley told Outside magazine in December that her relationship with the former Green Bay Packer star, which ended in 2022, “was a toxic situation.” The “Big Little Lies” star also previously said that the “darkest, hardest time in my life” took place in the fall of 2021, a time that coincided with the final months of her relationship with Rodgers and when he sparked national controversy by ranting critically about the COVID-19 vaccine.
Back in December, the 41-year-old Rodgers, then playing for the New York Jets, revealed that he had a new girlfriend named Brittani while appearing on the “The Pat McAfee Show,” according to People. He casually dropped the news about Brittani while discussing his Christmas shopping habits. He admitted to feeling some holiday stress when the gift he ordered online for Brittani was late in arriving.
“There was one package left for my girlfriend Brittani that hadn’t showed up yet,” Rodgers said. “I was waiting on this to show up, it showed up today.”
The revelation appeared to catch host McAfee off guard, People reported. AJ Hawk, McAfee’s cohost and Rodgers’ former teammate from the Green Bay Packers, jokingly asked, “Spears?”
“Not Brittany Spears, no, this is Brittani with an ‘i,’” Rodgers clarified, going on to say that his new partner doesn’t watch “The Pat McAfee Show” and doesn’t have social media.
The football player has long said he generally prefers to keep his personal relationships private, and he’s been reluctant to discuss his infamous estrangement from his Chico-based parents, Ed and Darla Rodgers. He, nonetheless, has found himself in several high-profile romances, going back to actor Olivia Munn, whom he dated from 2014 to 2017.
That relationship may have been a factor in his estrangement from his parents, or Rodgers began to bristle at their “dogmatic religious” beliefs when he was playing football at Butte Community College, before transferring to UC Berkeley to play for the Golden Bears, according to ESPN.
After ending things with Munn, Rodgers dated Patrick from 2018 to 2020. They even purchased a home together in Malibu, but Patrick told Steele they experienced a “sudden” breakup in the summer of 2020, during COVID-19 lockdown. Rodgers soon became secretly engaged to Woodley, which the “Divergent” actor revealed in a 2021 interview with Jimmy Fallon.
But the romance with Woodley only lasted another year. Rodgers followed up Woodley by becoming romantically linked in 2023 to Mallory Edens, a model and the daughter of one of the Milwaukee Bucks’ primary owners, Wes Edens, People reported.
Now, there’s possibly Brittani — with an ‘I,’ She could possibly become America’s new favorite WAG. That is, wife or girlfriend of a professional athlete. If so, Brittani would probably have to start showing up at games to cheer her husband on, like Taylor Swift, Brittany Mahomes, Simone Biles and the 49ers’ Olivia Culpo and Kristin Juszczyk. But Brittani probably will need to get on social media so she can post photos of her game-day fashion choices.