Actress Shailene Woodley mentioned she’s been quiet about her previous relationship with ex-fiancé Aaron Rodgers as a result of it makes her cry.
In an interview with Exterior journal, the “Divergent” star was candid about her and the Jets quarterback’s relationship, which got here to an finish in early 2022.
“I haven’t shared much about my relationship with Aaron because it always makes me cry,” she mentioned in uncommon feedback about Rodgers whereas the writer famous that her eyes welled up. “It was not right. But it was beautiful.”
Woodley, 33, and Rodgers, 41, referred to as off their engagement in February 2022, simply over a yr after making their relationship public. They break up once more that April.
“I had a really awful, traumatic thing happen in early 2022,” Woodley mentioned, with out entering into particular element about her trauma.
“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 defined that she selected to remain in a “toxic situation” as a result of she was empathizing with “someone else.”
Woodley didn’t identify that individual, including, “empathy kind of kept me in this loop of feeling everything for everyone.”
Woodley recalled her melancholy beginning to fade six months after her traumatic expertise, and that her stylist Kris Zero helped her get via her lowest level.
“I knew I was depressed when I looked at a tree and felt nothing. That was the lowest low of my life,” Woodley mentioned, including that Zero would wake her up each morning by blasting music to get her away from bed within the aftermath.
“Sometimes I was so angry at her,” Woodley mentioned. “But then we’d go surf, and for ten minutes that day I thought life could be OK again. Then the depression would come back and she’d go, ‘We’re volunteering at the horse ranch!’ And we’d find a random f–king horse ranch, and we’d clean up horse s–t. We’d clean hooves and brush the horses, and for 20 minutes that day I thought life could be OK again. And then the depression came back and she’d wake me up the next morning and go, ‘Let’s go on a hike and bring trash bags and clean up trash!’”
The actress and the Tremendous Bowl champ are each believed to be single now.
“One of my biggest dreams is to be a mom,” Woodley added.