Shailene Woodley Made Rare Comments About The Aaron Rodgers Breakup And Why She Doesn’t Like Talking About It
She also opened up in a new interview about dealing with an unnamed “traumatic experience” in 2022.
Now, it’s worth noting here that, during their relationship, Shailene and Aaron were fairly private about their relationship. I mean, they were friggin’ engaged at one point, and yet they weren’t really ever photographed together publicly all that much.
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Aaron was very public about his feelings post-breakup, going so far as to issue a public thanks and an apology to her — but Shailene has mostly remained silent on the matter. She made some oblique comments about dating someone “famous” the following year, but that was about it.
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“I haven’t shared much about my relationship with Aaron because it always makes me cry,” she told the publication.
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The writer indicated that, while Shailene spoke, her eyes started to well up a bit.
“It was not right,” she added, possibly regarding the relationship as a whole — or the breakup specifically. “But it was beautiful.”
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In another portion of the profile, Shailene referenced an “awful, traumatic thing” she experienced in early 2022 — again, around the same time she broke up with Aaron. Is it the breakup specifically she’s referring to? Maybe so, maybe not.
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“I felt like I lost my soul, my self, my happiness, my joy,” she recalled. “I really understood depression and anxiety and, like, complete soul detachment.”
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“I knew I was depressed when I looked at a tree and felt nothing. That was the lowest low of my life.”
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Shailene also said that her friend, stylist Kris Zero, eventually helped her through the period of depression, which lasted around six months. “Sometimes I was so angry at her,” she recalled. “But then we’d go surf, and for ten minutes that day I thought life could be OK again.”
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“Then the depression would come back and she’d go, ‘We’re volunteering at the horse ranch!’ And we’d find a random fucking horse ranch, and we’d clean up horse shit. We’d clean hooves and brush the horses, and for 20 minutes that day I thought life could be OK again.”
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“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!’”
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