In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Friday, Shailene Woodley did not mince any words when she responded to Aaron Rodgers “lies” and explained why the couple has been so public about their relationship since they announced their engagement earlier this year.
Woodley says she and the Green Bay Packers QB moved in together within a few months of their first introductions and began traveling between Green Bay and Los Angeles in the beginning stages of their relationship.
“There was a sense of anonymity that otherwise I don’t think we would have had. We were really able to get to know one another the way we wanted to get to know one another and not have any noise or chaos around us,” she said.
After Rodgers announced in his NFL MVP acceptance speech that he was engaged, Woodley then confirmed it in an interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon two weeks later. “When we announced that we were engaged, we wanted to do that only because we didn’t want someone else to do it before we did,” Woodley said. “And we didn’t do it for months and months after we had become engaged, but the reaction to it was really a lot, and so we were like, ‘Let’s just politely decline [to talk about the relationship] for a little while and live in our little bubble.’”
Woodley says she values honesty, which is why she and Rodgers have been so open about their relationship as a way to push back against the “lies” and “fabrications” that are spread about them. “It’s just easier, in my opinion, to be open,” she said. “I really don’t feel there’s any need to put on a face or be anything other than who you are because otherwise it’s exhausting. You always fucking remember the truth. … It’s really hard to keep up with the lies or the fabrications or the masks that we put on out of self-preservation. The only person that ends up coming back to haunt is ourselves.”
As of right now, it does not appear the Green Bay Packers will trade him and the veteran QB odes not look like a man who will force their hand by sitting out.
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He is happy off the field, but it remains to be seen how he feels on the field.
