Whereas there could also be quite a lot of bizarre issues about future NFL Corridor of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers that followers cannot ignore, together with a shady facet, he is additionally confronted demons in his private life which have bled into his public persona. From sophisticated household dynamics to coping with drama because of his religious beliefs, he is shifted from an all-star athlete to a polarizing public determine for a lot of. However by all of it, Rodgers has realized to embrace his fame for all of its value, significantly the nice and the unhealthy that comes with it. In terms of balancing all of it, the professional soccer participant turns to self-love practices to assist him by the ups and downs that life has thrown him. “There’s this entire different half that comes with [fame] that is quite a lot of nice stuff and quite a lot of f****** bizarre stuff,” he shared within the “Aaron Rodgers: Enigma” Netflix documentary.

Aaron Rodgers has had a strained relationship along with his dad and mom for many years. He has revealed in interviews that their familial discord began when the Tremendous Bowl-winning quarterback was in highschool, citing Ed and Darla Rodgers’ stringent spiritual beliefs as a significant catalyst for his or her distance. These beliefs made their method into their parenting, in accordance with Rodgers, and any love he acquired could be primarily based on benefit. “When you do not imagine you deserve that love, it is arduous so that you can give it, and it is certain as hell arduous so that you can obtain it,” he shared in his Netflix documentary..

The estrangement started lengthy earlier than Rodgers’ NFL days, and the quarterback claims that the problems between him and his dad and mom finally triggered him to should discover ways to be a dad or mum to himself. “I feel for me, I simply needed to listen to, ‘I am happy with you,'” he continued within the documentary.

Aaron Rodgers’ strained relationship along with his household extends past simply his dad and mom. Actually, he reportedly doesn’t communicate to any of his rapid members of the family, together with his two brothers Jordan and Luke. It was Jordan himself who even revealed the Rodgers’ household feud to the general public after he competed (and later gained) “The Bachelorette” in 2016. “It is simply the best way he is chosen to do life,” Rodgers shared of his older brother on the present (through Folks).

However issues reportedly acquired worse when Aaron Rodgers’ ex-girlfriend, actor Olivia Munn, acquired concerned and triggered the household to take sides. In accordance with Bleacher Report, the Rodgers clan shared their distaste for Munn, inflicting Rodgers to develop into livid. The fallout continued from there, with the pair even going as far as to mail again Christmas presents that the household despatched. Whereas the pair could not make it work, Munn claimed she truly tried to encourage her then-boyfriend to fix issues along with his household – which finally did not work. “I simply suppose it is actually essential to attempt to mend issues in a household, and I encourage that,” she advised Andy Cohen on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy.

The timeline of Aaron and Jordan Rodgers’s feud took the standard sibling rivalry to a brand new stage. Each brothers grew up enjoying soccer, however solely Aaron made knowledgeable profession out of the game. Whereas Aaron was drafted by (and developed a championship-winning profession with) the Inexperienced Bay Packers in 2005, Jordan finally signed as a free agent with the Jacksonville Jaguars for a brief interval. “I have been ignored and slighted each step of the best way,” Jordan Rodgers advised The Florida Instances-Union. “I feel that brings out one of the best in me.”

After Jordan revealed the Rodgers’ household soiled laundry whereas competing on “The Bachelorette” in 2016, the brothers’ feud continued to go downhill. The pair had already had an alleged all-out combat in late 2014, and his open dialogue about his older brother appeared to begin an ongoing cycle of on-line and public barbs traded between the 2 for years. However in 2024, the older Rodgers brother not solely confirmed his feud along with his brother, but in addition revealed extra backstory to their discord. When discussing the household drama revealed on “The Bachelorette,” Rodgers revealed he wasn’t even invited to take part within the on-air dialogue, which was throughout the NFL season. “All of them agreed this was factor to do, to go away two empty chairs at a silly relationship present that my brother simply went on to get well-known — his phrases, not mine,” he acknowledged within the “Aaron Rodgers: Enigma” Netflix documentary.

Rodgers revealed that as a baby, his dad and mom mandated church service for all of their youngsters every week. That strict nature affected the longer term NFL quarterback, significantly as he started to query the tenets of the faith that he spent a lot time concerned in. “In the end, it was that guidelines and rules and binary programs do not actually resonate with me,” he defined on then-partner Danica Patrick’s “Fairly Intense” podcast.

Rodgers finally moved right into a extra religious realm when it got here to his beliefs, pursuing extra gray areas of faith against the black-and-white upbringing he was subjected to. He went on to elucidate how he rejected the notions he was raised with, each when it comes to ideology and the parenting patterns that stemmed from it. Between his new mentality and his public feedback, his household took issues personally. “It is principally him turning his again on all the pieces they’ve taught him,” an insider defined,” an insider mentioned of the scenario to Folks.

Regardless of the sophisticated relationship that Aaron Rodgers had along with his former teammate Brett Favre, Rodgers was amongst many involved when Favre revealed he was recognized with Parkinson’s illness in 2024. Each quarterbacks grew to become legends whereas enjoying for the Inexperienced Bay Packers, with Rodgers taking up Favre’s beginning spot after the Corridor of Famer signed with the New York Jets in 2008. This triggered many to take a position that the 2 had been in a feud, particularly when the 2 continued to share arguably hostile statements about one another within the press.

However these variations had been put apart after Favre’s devastating announcement. Rodgers took time throughout a press convention to talk about his former teammate’s prognosis and the way he mirrored on the hazards and long-term results of the game they each performed consequently. “The older you get the mortality will get type of thrown in our face a bit bit extra,” he advised the press after a sport (through Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).

Like many different NFL gamers, Aaron Rodgers has confronted a variety of scary accidents that had main impacts on each his profession and his life. From breaking his collarbone twice inside 4 years to ripping his Achilles heel and lacking a whole season, he is confronted insurmountable ache that finally has had an influence on his means. By the point he joined the New York Jets in 2023, he had additionally damaged a number of bones in his foot and hand and even sustained an MCL tear.

Regardless of his ache, the professional quarterback was scared to bear scans on his accidents for concern of dropping his beginning job. He is pressured himself to play on these accidents and are available again too quickly in some video games to proceed shifting his profession ahead as finest he might. However he nonetheless frames his ideas about harm round medication and therapeutic, in addition to the information that this threat is a part of what he signed up for within the first place. “That is a part of the danger enjoying [football] and all of us behind our thoughts know that [injury] is usually a actuality in some unspecified time in the future,” he as soon as shared in a post-game press convention (through Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).

Other than his record-setting NFL profession, Aaron Rodgers has made a reputation for himself – for higher or worse – along with his opinions on vaccines and fashionable medicines. Notably throughout the world pandemic, the professional quarterback has quite a few statements about immunization which have puzzled many followers across the nation. Although he acknowledged in 2021 that he was “immunized” in opposition to COVID-19, he had reportedly sought to be exempt from the NFL’s then-stringent protocols to assist stop the unfold of the sickness. To make issues worse, he claimed on “The Pat McAfee Present” that he was allergic to components in sure vaccines, prompting much more public backlash at a time when many had been further delicate about immunization.

After going through the scathing public backlash, Rodgers finally defined the context of his statements – he was making an attempt to enchantment the NFL’s protocols due to his holistic medicinal practices – whereas additionally proudly owning as much as the influence his statements made on his picture. “If there’s one factor I want might have gone completely different, it is that [statement about being immunized], as a result of that is the one factor [critics] might hit me with,” he admitted within the guide “Out of the Darkness: The Thriller of Aaron Rodgers” (through ESPN).

It hasn’t simply been medical theories that Aaron Rodgers has confronted controversy (and backlash) over. He is been equally criticized for numerous political and philosophical statements, significantly regarding fellow public figures. After he pontificated on “The Pat McAfee Present” that late present host Jimmy Kimmel was linked to convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein, Kimmel himself threatened authorized motion over the feedback. Whereas Rodgers didn’t apologize for his remarks, he did admit that he might perceive the place his unique speaking level was taken out of context.

This wasn’t the primary time that Rodgers expressed controversial theories. CNN reported that in 2013, the star publicly shared theories that the Sandy Hook faculty taking pictures was a hoax. This prompted the outlet to launch a bombshell exposé calling him out to hundreds of thousands. It even triggered certainly one of Rodgers’ mates, fellow controversial determine Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to talk out in opposition to the quarterback – who he had even thought of inviting as a working mate within the 2024 presidential election. Rodgers by no means publicly denied the claims made within the CNN article, however he did launch an announcement that contradicted what was reported. “I hope that we study from this and different tragedies to establish the indicators that can enable us to stop pointless lack of life,” he affirmed on X (through CNN).