Aaron Rodgers issued an apology to his reported ex-fiancée, Shailene Woodley, for the residual backlash she faced over his COVID vaccine stance.
During an appearance on SiriusXM Radio’s The Pat McAfee Show on Tuesday, the Green Bay Packers quarterback accepted that he owed an apology to actress Woodley and other “loved ones” for being caught in the “shrapnel” of his backlash.
“One thing that I am sad about and definitely apologetic is I didn’t realize in the midst of the COVID conversations how much my situation was affecting my loved ones and my people. I didn’t realize the kind of shrapnel that was being flaked off of what I felt like were the bullets coming at me because I was too locked in on me and defending myself and trying to get a message out.”
“I never wanted to be divisive in this whole thing, I really didn’t,” the California-born sports ace went on. “The issue is polarizing, I get that and I know there’s a lot of fear involved around that, but my intention was never to be divisive.”
While many were still assuming he was talking to his former fiancee, one moment during that interview seems to suggest that he and Woodley are very much still an item.
A social media detective pointed out that the coffee mug Rodgers held during his interview with McAfee was the same one used by Woodley in a 2020 Instagram post.
Woodley’s post:
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Not to mention, it appears that Woodley may have been heard laughing in the background:
