‘Stop lying!’: Aaron Rodgers unloads on ‘relevance-seeking’ and ‘clinically bipolar’ exes while protecting wife Brittani

Aaron Rodgers has usually let his exes do the talking in public. That changed on Wednesday, when the four-time MVP used his latest appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” to fire back at unnamed former partners and tell them to “move on” and “stop lying” about him.

The 42-year-old, now a free agent after his 2025 season with the Pittsburgh Steelers, drew a hard line between the drama around his past relationships and the private life he is trying to build with his wife, Brittani, as he decides whether to play in 2026.

Aaron Rodgers calls out ‘clinically bipolar’ and ‘relevance-seeking’ exes on Pat McAfee Show

Rodgers did not bother to soften his language when McAfee asked about how his relationships have been portrayed over the last few years.

“I dealt with clinically bipolar, I dealt with depressed relevance-seeking,” Rodgers said on the March 4 episode of “The Pat McAfee Show.” “I dealt with people that wanted to search out other possibilities before they could commit to me and then they go on TV talking about how I ruined their lives and all this s**. I just want to say, ‘Move on with your life. Stop lying about me. Just move on with your life and be happy.’”*


He never used names, but the timeline is not subtle. Rodgers was engaged to actress Shailene Woodley from 2021 to 2022 after a high-profile relationship with former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick from 2017 to 2020.

In December 2024, Woodley described her relationship with Rodgers as a “toxic situation” that led to a “deep depression.” In May 2025, Patrick said on “The Sage Steele Show” podcast that the breakup was “the most amount of pain” she had experienced and alleged the “nature of the relationship was emotionally abusive” and that he “leaves a trail of blood.” Rodgers clearly disagrees with that version of events.

He said he has been with people who “called the paparazzi,” talked publicly about where he was living and “coerced” him into Instagram posts he never wanted to make. For a quarterback who has already lived through a long, public family rift, this was the sharpest he has been about his exes on camera.

Aaron Rodgers explains why he is guarding wife Brittani and stepping out of the spotlight

The other side of Rodgers’ rant was not about his exes at all. It was about Brittani, the woman he says he first met in 2017, reconnected with in late 2024 and quietly married in 2025.

Rodgers told McAfee he knew “there was something crazy special” about her from the start but that she made it clear she did not want to live in Green Bay or be a “player’s wife.” He said she moved back overseas, he went into “crazytown” with more public relationships, and then she came back into his life years later.

Now, he says the cost of his fame has become dangerous. “The obsession is f***** bizarre,”* Rodgers said. He described “legitimate stalkers” at his former Malibu home, people following him to his coffee shop and gym, paparazzi drones over his house and even what he called a bounty on the first photo of his wife.

“She didn’t sign up for this bull**,”* Rodgers said. “She signed up because she loves me. She supports me and she wants to spend the rest of our lives together and start a family. She didn’t sign up to be out front, a social media WAG.”

Rodgers insisted he wants a private life once football is over and even joked that when he is done, it will be like Keyser Soze disappearing. For now, he says there is no deadline or contract offer on the table for 2026 and that he is “enjoying [his] time with [his] wife” while the Steelers leave the door open.

What he does next on the field is still a mystery. What is not in doubt after this week is how he feels about the exes still talking about him on television. In his words, they should “just f***** move on.”*


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