Home Uncategorized AARON RODGERS HAS TAKEN A SCATHING SWIPE AT EX DANICA PATRICK — PUSHING BACK ON HER CLAIMS ABOUT THEIR BREAKUP AND REVEALING WHAT HE SAYS WAS REALLY HAPPENING BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. BUT ONE ADMISSION ABOUT HIS OWN FEELINGS MAKES THE STORY EVEN MESSIER. Rodgers and Patrick dated for more than two years before splitting in 2020. Patrick later described the relationship as emotionally damaging and said she had been blindsided by the breakup. Now Rodgers is challenging that version of events, insisting their relationship had already deteriorated long before it ended. But while defending himself, he also admitted he had been emotionally unavailable for reasons tied to another woman — someone who would eventually become his wife.

AARON RODGERS HAS TAKEN A SCATHING SWIPE AT EX DANICA PATRICK — PUSHING BACK ON HER CLAIMS ABOUT THEIR BREAKUP AND REVEALING WHAT HE SAYS WAS REALLY HAPPENING BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. BUT ONE ADMISSION ABOUT HIS OWN FEELINGS MAKES THE STORY EVEN MESSIER. Rodgers and Patrick dated for more than two years before splitting in 2020. Patrick later described the relationship as emotionally damaging and said she had been blindsided by the breakup. Now Rodgers is challenging that version of events, insisting their relationship had already deteriorated long before it ended. But while defending himself, he also admitted he had been emotionally unavailable for reasons tied to another woman — someone who would eventually become his wife.

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Rodgers and Patrick dated from 2018 to July 2020, shortly after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic

Aaron Rodgers does not remember his time with ex-girlfriend Danica Patrick too fondly.

The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback, 42, said on the Not Just Football podcast on Thursday, Sept. 10 that his two-year relationship with the retired racer, 44, wasn’t all sunshine and roses.

Aaron Rodgers, Danica Patrick
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“I dated Danica [Patrick]. She had just retired. She was depressed and not fun to be around, but I didn’t leave her because I was trying to be there and be a good partner,” Rodgers recalled to host and teammate Cam Heyward.

“Then it was going a certain direction, obviously. There was no intimacy. There was nothing,” he continued. “And I’m buying a house in Malibu and she goes, ‘Would you want to buy it together?,’ and I said no.”

Aaron Rodgers and Danica Patrick attend The 2018 ESPYS at Microsoft Theater on July 18, 2018 in Los Angeles, California
Aaron Rodgers and Danica Patrick attend The 2018 ESPYS.Allen Berezovsky/FilmMagic

He said Patrick suggested couples counseling, which they did. However, they eventually split in July 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic after dating for over two years.

“She tells a story that, ‘I was so blindsided by getting left by you, and he leaves a trail of blood around.’ I’m like what are you talking about? That is not what happened by any means,” Rodgers said.

The NFL player referred to an interview Patrick did on The Sage Steele Show in May 2025, in which she called him “emotionally abusive,” adding that the relationship “wore me down to nothing.” She also said, “he leaves a trail of blood.”

PEOPLE has reached out to a representative for Patrick for comment.

He further shared on the Not Just Football podcast that in 2017, prior to dating Patrick, he met his now-wife Brittani, who then moved to Europe. He said he had been plagued by regrets of “not begging [Brittani] to stay or proposing,” which “sent me right there into a tailspin” during his relationship with Patrick.

“I was emotionally unavailable, I think, for those seven or eight years because I met the person that had changed my life,” he explained. “And after that, I just poured everything I had into football, and I think I got a lot out of that for sure.”

“But I knew I was supposed to be with this one person, but we were separated by an ocean for a lot [of] it,” he added. “Then, she was engaged, then I got engaged and luckily, for me, came back together.”

Aaron Rodgers; Danica Patrick; Shailene Woodley
Aaron Rodgers; Danica Patrick; Shailene Woodley.Chance Yeh/WireImage; Ethan Miller/Getty; Maya Dehlin Spach/WireImage

He went on to say that Patrick and Shailene Woodley, whom he dated from early 2021 to 2022, have been subject to public speculation that he believes does not reflect what happened behind the scenes.

“There’s Danica with her story, a trail of blood, blindsided by me leaving her and alright, there’s zero intimacy, didn’t want to buy a house there was really nothing there. Then I date Shailene…,” he said.

“And again, I feel like this needs to be told because there’s just narratives out there which, by the way, forever, what people hit me on all the time was he’s such a f—ing a–hole, even his family hates him,” he continued. “Nobody knew anything that was going on with it.”

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